Sen. Bob Corker Robert (Bob) Phillips CorkerHas Congress captured Russia policy? Tennessee primary battle turns nasty for Republicans Cheney clashes with Trump MORE (R-Tenn.) on Tuesday praised the speech Sen. John McCain John Sidney McCainMomentum growing among Republicans for Supreme Court vote before Election Day McConnell urges GOP senators to 'keep your powder dry' on Supreme Court vacancy McSally says current Senate should vote on Trump nominee MORE (R-Ariz.) gave a day earlier, in which the Arizona Republican blasted "half-baked, spurious nationalism."

"The pieces that I saw, I loved, and I gave him a big hug on the [Senate] floor," Corker told reporters when asked about the speech, according to CNN

"It's a great speech," he said.

McCain delivered the emotional speech Monday evening after receiving the National Constitution Center's Liberty Medal. During the address, he said that "we live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil" and called Americans "the custodians of those ideals at home, and their champion abroad."

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“To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain 'the last best hope of earth' for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history,” McCain said.

The line about "spurious nationalism" was widely seen as a jab at President Trump, who responded to McCain's comments on Tuesday.