The daughter of Sen. John McCain and former Vice President Joe Biden have developed a tight bond over the cancer tragedies that have ravaged their families.
"I talk to him all the time, and he checks in on me all the time," Meghan McCain, 33, told Glamour magazine in an interview published Thursday.
Meghan, a co-host of ABC’s “The View,” has been comforting her dad, a veteran Republican lawmaker and Vietnam War hero, who is battling an aggressive form of brain cancer called glioblastoma. It’s the same kind that killed Biden's oldest son, Beau, in 2015.
"There is no manual to consult when it comes to dealing with a seriously ill parent. But if there was, Meghan McCain would be the one to write it,” Biden told Glamour’s Mattie Kahn.
"Publicly she has been fierce as John's advocate, and privately her love and encouragement have sustained him. The way the entire McCain family has handled the cards they have been dealt is worthy of our admiration, and I know John is so incredibly proud of his daughter."
But Meghan said she’s “not the same person I was when my dad was first diagnosed.”
“The innate person inside of me hasn’t changed, but I don’t look at the world in the same way … My father is the sun in my universe. He’s the absolute center,” she told the mag.
“He’s the last person who needs to be sick now because I so need him here, fighting for all the things that we believe in. I’m scared of America without him.”
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