MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain is using an image of his adopted daughter in a new campaign mailing in the state where push polling involving the girl helped derail his White House bid eight years ago.
In the mailing, the Arizona senator’s wife, Cindy, is pictured holding a baby in a blanket as she walks with a woman from Mother Teresa’s orphanage. “Cindy cradles little Bridget, a baby she and John adopted in 1993 from Mother Teresa’s orphanage in Bangladesh. Bridget has been a great blessing to the McCain family,” the mailing says. “Today, Cindy and John work together to promote adoption and to help women facing crisis pregnancies.”
During McCain’s 2000 run against George W. Bush, South Carolina voters were called and asked about McCain’s daughter; the callers insinuated she was illegitimate.
