Meghan McCain shares new photo of Sen. John McCain

PHOENIX — Meghan McCain shared a new photo of her and Sen. John McCain all bundled up for a chilly northern Arizona morning Sunday. 

The photograph was a rare glimpse of the 81-year-old Arizona Republican senator, who has been battling brain cancer at his family’s secluded cabin near Sedona.

Meghan McCain, a political commentator and co-host of ABC’s The View, posted the image on her Instagram account Sunday morning:

“No place I would rather be,” she wrote in the post.

No place I would rather be. 🇺🇸♥️🌵

A post shared by Meghan McCain (@meghanmccain) on Mar 18, 2018 at 7:39am PDT

The short message was followed by a U.S. flag, heart and cactus emojis.

Meghan McCain is snuggled up closely to her father for the picture, which appears to have been taken at the family’s secluded cabin in Cornville, near Sedona. The six-term senator has been undergoing physical therapy there since he returned to Arizona in December. 

In the photo, John McCain is clad in a Navy baseball cap, black gloves, sunglasses, two blue coats and blue jeans. He’s holding a glass as a blanket covers his legs. His daughter is also bundled up in a fuzzy blue jacket bearing an American flag and a blue baseball cap. 

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Multiple Instagram photos posted from Cornville indicate Meghan McCain has spent the past few days with her father.

On Saturday, she posted a short video of a creek that runs by the family cabin in the small northern Arizona town.

“I love you Arizona,” she wrote in the Instagram post.

I love you Arizona. ♥️🇺🇸🌵

A post shared by Meghan McCain (@meghanmccain) on Mar 17, 2018 at 8:22am PDT

John McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in July. He was hospitalized in Bethesda, Md., in December with a viral infection and for side effects related to chemotherapy and radiation treatment.

An official update has not been provided on his health since he returned to Arizona in December, but Meghan McCain did give a possible timetable for when he might return to Washington, D.C., on KTAR-FM’s Mac Gaydos program Tuesday.

“I wish I had an exact date, but I just don’t,” Meghan McCain told the Phoenix radio station. “I am very cautiously optimistic about the summer, yes.”

She added that the senator is doing “really good.”

The elder McCain, who hasn’t been giving interviews to the media recently, has continued to issue written statements from Arizona during his absence from the Senate. 

He recently raised concerns about the role Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee for CIA director, played in the torture of detainees in U.S. custody following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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Cindy McCain, wife of Sen. John McCain, joins their children (form left) Meghan, 13, Jack, 11 (partially hidden), Bridget, 6, and Jimmy, 9, before the senior senator from Arizona announces his bid for re-election on April 17, 1998, at Republican Party Headquarters. 
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The families of Republican presidential candidate Sen., John McCain, R-Ariz., and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, pose for a photograph at the airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after McCain arrived for the Republican National Convention on Sept. 3, 2008. From left to right: Track Palin, Piper Palin, Willow Palin, holding Trig Palin, Levi Johnson, Bristol Palin, Todd Palin, Gov. Palin, Sen. McCain, Andy McCain, Cindy McCain, Jimmy McCain, Jack McCain, Sidney McCain, Meghan McCain, Bridgette McCain, Doug McCain. 
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Cindy McCain (center), wife of Republican U.S presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., stands with her children (from left) Meghan, Andy, Jimmy, Jack, Doug, Bridget, and Sidney during Day 4 of the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center on Sept. 4, 2008, in St. Paul, Minnesota. 
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Vice presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter Piper Palin (left), presidential nominee Sen. John McCain’s children Meghan McCain (from second left), Jimmy McCain, Doug McCain, Jack McCain and Andrew McCain, and McCain’s mother Roberta McCain stand on stage as John McCain, R-Ariz., concedes victory during the Election Night rally at the Arizona Biltmore Resort Spa on Nov. 4, 2008, in Phoenix, Arizona. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., defeated McCain by a wide margin in the election to become the first African-American U.S. President elect. 
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