\nWe must listen more to you, and get out of way of tribal authority,” McCain said during a NCAI conference in 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nMcCain himself enjoyed gambling, and had a particular fondness for craps. TIME <\/i>writers Michael Scherer and Michael Weisskopf reported in 2008 that the then-presidential candidate often played “for a few thousand dollars at a time,” but avoided accepting loans or credits from casinos.<\/p>\n
Though McCain was an avid supporter of Native American gaming rights, fancied the craps table, and was a boxer in his younger years, the senator had little love for mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n
In 1996, he called the UFC “human cockfighting.” In 2015, he said it isn’t a sport but “a throwback to the Roman Colosseum.”<\/p>\n
Palin Pick<\/b><\/h2>\n
After securing the Republican Party’s nomination for the 2008 US presidential election, McCain made what might have been his most important decision in his political career.<\/p>\n
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One day after the Democratic Convention was held in which then-US Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden became that party’s ticket, McCain announced Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. At the outset, it appeared the gamble paid off, as nominating the first Republican female vice presidential candidate flushed the campaign with more than $7 million in donations over the first 24 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nReaction from the GOP was largely positive, as Palin had strong favorability ratings with both men and women. But she would later become a liability as the media swooned in.<\/p>\n
In what became an infamous gaffe, Palin responded to Katie Couric’s question about what newspapers and magazines she reads, “I’ve read most of them.” When pressed for specifics, she answered, “All of them, any of them, that um, have been in front of me over all these years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The late United States Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) was one of the authors of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), the federal legislation signed into law in 1988 by President Ronald Regan that provided Native American tribes the right to operate certain forms of gambling on their sovereign lands. On the news of the senator’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":86864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,61,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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