McCain, Graham Blast GOP Chairman

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Updated Apr. 24, 2017 6:35PM EDT / Published Jul. 04, 2010 7:28AM EDT

Calls for GOP Chairman Michael Steele to reconsider his post continue to be heard—and they’re coming from increasingly high-profile colleagues. On Sunday, Senator John McCain became the latest and most visible Republican yet to question Steele’s leadership, saying on ABC’s This Week that the gaffe-prone leader of the Republican National Committee “is going to have to assess as to whether he can still lead the Republican Party.” Steele is under fire for being caught on tape calling the conflict in Afghanistan “a war of Obama’s choosing” and bucking his party’s position by suggesting that it cannot be won. McCain called his words “wildly inaccurate.”

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McCain, Graham Blast GOP Chairman