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While he earned 28 percent support during the first three nights of interviewing, that dipped to single digits on the final day.

McCain said Trump should apologize to veterans after he dismissed the US senator’s military record because he was taken prisoner during the Vietnam War.

“I am not a hero“.

Sen McCain, speaking for the first time since Mr Trump’s controversial remarks, played down the personal attack, and instead said the Republican presidential candidate owed an apology to all veterans.

Donald Trump, who over the weekend said he liked “people who weren’t captured“, should apologize to American prisoners of war and their families, Sen.

McCain was responding to Trump’s suggestion at a Saturday gathering of social conservatives in Iowa that the 2008 GOP presidential nominee and former prisoner of war is “not a war hero”.

After dismissing McCain’s reputation as a war hero because he was captured in Vietnam and saying “I like people who weren’t captured“, Trump declared “I will say what I want to say”.

Clinton called McCain a genuine war hero and said it was shameful “that it took so long for most of his fellow Republican candidates to start standing up to” Trump.

Trump made the controversial comments about McCain and other prisoners of war as he spoke at a question-and-answer session at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, on Saturday.

Over the weekend, Trump said that McCain, a Vietnam vet who was captured, tortured and imprisoned for five years, is “not a war hero”.

McCain told MSNBC he has fielded a “flood of calls” from military veterans unhappy with Trump’s remarks. “Somehow to denigrate that in any way is offensive, I think, to most of our veterans”.

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Sen. John McCain said Monday Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump doesn’t need to apologize to him for remarks about his long captivity in Vietnam, but should tell veterans and their families that he’s sorry.

Sanders, who is generally viewed as a favorite of the Netroots Nation community, also faced complaints and shouting from protesters as he tried to deliver a speech largely focused on economic inequality.

The op-ed comes as Trump is on the defensive for dismissing McCain’s reputation as a war hero because McCain was captured in Vietnam and, “I like people who weren’t captured“.