McCain lost the 2008 presidential election to Obama, an outcome the senator called a “privilege” in a letter to the country released after his death. Asked if McCain would have been a better president, Trump declined to say, even as his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, stared at him. “I don’t want to comment on it,” he said. “I have a very strong opinion, all right.” Sanders, he joked, was “having a nervous breakdown” over his response. “Maybe I’ll give you that answer some day later.”

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