Meghan McCain retweeted Catanese a few hours later:

Without naming names, Trump spent a few seconds of his 75-minute speech criticizing Arizona’s two GOP senators, McCain and Sen. Jeff Flake, who’s running for a second term.

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“One vote away! I will not mention any names,” he said, as he described his choice to not name names “very presidential.”

McCain cast the deciding vote that led to the Senate’s rejection of the “skinny repeal” bill, a watered-down version of a plan to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. McCain, who had been diagnosed with brain cancer, was one of three Republican senators who voted against the bill.

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The vote began in the early morning hours of July 28. By then, McCain had been keeping his colleagues and the press corps in suspense for a little more than two hours about how he would vote, The Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe wrote. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) cast their “no” votes first. Just before 1:30 a.m., McCain approached the Senate clerk and gave a thumbs down.

The bill failed 49-51.

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In Phoenix, Trump repeated his promise to “get rid of Obamacare.”

“I will never stop. One vote!” he said, again hinting at McCain. “I will never stop. We’re gonna get rid of Obamacare.”

Trump then criticized Flake, also without naming him.

“And nobody wants me to talk about your other senator, who’s weak on borders, weak on crime, so I won’t talk about him,” he said of Flake. “Nobody wants me to talk about him. Nobody knows who the hell he is. And now, see, I haven’t mentioned any names. So now, everybody’s happy.”

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Flake’s seat is being challenged in the Republican primary by Kelli Ward, a former Arizona state senator who also ran against McCain last year. Ward stirred controversy when she said that McCain should “step away as quickly as possible” during a radio interview last month, just days after the 80-year-old senator was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer.

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McCain and Trump have traded verbal jabs in the past.

McCain, a vocal critic of the president, called the administration’s decision to halt a CIA training program for moderate Syrian rebels “irresponsible” and “short-sighted.” He also criticized Trump’s tweet last month about banning transgender people in the military, saying that major policy announcements should not be made on Twitter.

In February, McCain defended the free press after Trump called the news media “the enemy of the American people.” Such talk, McCain said on NBC News, was “how dictators get started.”

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In 2015, Trump attacked McCain’s military record, saying he is not a war hero.

“He was a war hero because he was captured,” Trump said, criticizing McCain for being captured in Vietnam. “I like people who weren’t captured.”

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A few days before McCain cast the deciding vote on the health-care bill last month, Trump praised the senator for returning to Washington despite having been diagnosed with cancer. Republicans needed his vote, Trump said.

“Brave – American hero! Thank you John,” Trump tweeted.

After McCain voted “no,” Trump tweeted that those who rejected the bill “let the American people down.”