Joe Biden called John McCain ahead of the Senate's vote on the healthcare repeal and lobbied for the lawmaker to go against it, according to reports.

Senator McCain's shocking vote was reportedly influenced by Biden during a phone call from the former vice president in which they talked about McCain's brain cancer.

In an emotional talk with the Arizona Republican, Biden is said to have discussed McCain's glioblastoma diagnosis, the same tumor that killed his son Beau in 2015.

After the reported phone call, McCain went into the Senate and stunned fellow lawmakers when he voted against his party's 'skinny' repeal of Obamacare on Friday.

Former vice president Joe Biden (left) allegedly called John McCain (right) before the senator's shocking healthcare vote on Friday. Biden reportedly told McCain to vote against the Obamacare repeal

In an emotional appeal to the Arizona Republican, the two are said to have discussed McCain's recent glioblastoma diagnosis, the same disease that killed Biden's son Beau in 2015 (pictured together in 2008)

McCain was lobbied by Biden and also by his old friend Joseph Lieberman, a former senator from Connecticut, the Washington Post reported.

After McCain's reported phone calls with the two retired politicians, he walked into the chamber and stunned both Republicans and Democrats when he voted against the healthcare repeal.

Biden reportedly asked McCain to vote against the repeal during their conversation before the early morning vote, although it is unclear exactly what time the call took place.

The Post reported the two also talked about McCain's cancer during the phone call.

McCain was reportedly lobbied by Biden and also by his old friend Joseph Lieberman, a former senator from Connecticut, to vote no against the repeal

Biden's son Beau was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2013, that same form of cancer McCain was recently told he has.

Beau started experiencing signs of the tumor in 2010 after complaining of a headache, numbness and sometimes paralysis, thinking he had suffered from a mild stroke.

After years of back and forth with doctors, he was finally diagnosed with the cancer.

He received radiation and chemotherapy treatments, which stabilized the cancer temporarily. Two years later it came back, and within 10 days he died at age 46.

McCain's diagnosis story is similar, the 80-year-old was hospitalized for a blood clot just behind his left eye.

The clot was discovered during a routine physical and because he was complaining of headaches and dizziness.

The politician was diagnosed with glioblastoma following pathology reports.



