The Heritage Foundation gives McCain a 60% lifetime rating, as compared to 24% for Collins and 34% for Murkowski. The Senate -- and broader Congress -- that McCain joined in the 1980s is not even close to the one he left late this decade. The campaign McCain ran reflected the drastic changes afoot in his party. By the time McCain stood for re-election again in 2016, the phenomenon of Donald Trump had seized the party. The simple fact is that our politics is simply not conditioned to produce -- or promote -- another John McCain.

Source: CNN August 27, 2018 15:21 UTC