Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) fired off the latest shot in an ongoing war of words with Sen. Rand Paul, saying the Kentucky Republican doesn’t have influence in the Senate.
McCain, who chairs the Armed Services Committee, was asked to comment on Paul calling on Trump to seek congressional authorization to use military force in Syria but said that “I don’t really react to Sen. Paul.”
“We’re just too different and he doesn’t have any real influence in the United States Senate,” McCain told CNN. “I don’t pay any attention frankly to what Sen. Paul says.”
Asked why he’s disagreeing with Paul over the administration’s airstrikes targeting a Syrian airbase in response to a chemical weapons attacks that has been linked to the Assad regime, McCain said “because he’s wrong.”
He’s wrong on “every other issue that I know of that has to do with national security,” the Arizona Republican said.
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