参议院多数党领袖麦康奈尔也同样如此，最引人瞩目的或许莫过于2008年共和党总统提名人约翰·麦凯恩，麦凯恩的服役经历曾遭到特朗普的诽谤，特朗普称麦凯恩“英雄般”地从越南凯旋仅仅是“因为他成了俘虏 ” ， 并声称“我更喜欢那些没有当俘虏的人。 ”
So does Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and, perhaps most remarkably, John McCain, the party’s 2008 presidential nominee, whose military service Trump denigrated, saying that McCain returned from Vietnam “a war hero” only “because he was captured,” adding, “I like people who weren’t captured.”