--- title: Did Cindy McCain Wear White Pantsuit for Hillary Clinton description: Cindy McCain voted early Tuesday morning in a white pantsuit—a potential nod to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton canonical: https://time.com/4563066/cindy-mccain-white-pantsuit-hillary-clinton/ author: Andrew Katz article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-08T23:53:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:48.576Z og:title: Cindy McCain Wore a White Pantsuit to Vote. What's It Mean? og:description: Her suit could have been a nod to Hillary Clinton og:url: https://time.com/4563066/cindy-mccain-white-pantsuit-hillary-clinton/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3fadc241ac58180/6988ad82ab6d77786a6abddd/cindy-mccain-white-pantsuit-election-day.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: cindy-mccain-white-pantsuit-election-day og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cindy McCain Wore a White Pantsuit to Vote. What's It Mean? twitter:description: Her suit could have been a nod to Hillary Clinton twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3fadc241ac58180/6988ad82ab6d77786a6abddd/cindy-mccain-white-pantsuit-election-day.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Cindy McCain Wore a White Pantsuit to Vote. Is She 'With Her'?  by [Andrew Katz](https://time.com/author/andrew-katz/)  ## Andrew Katz Nov 8, 2016 11:53 PM UTC  Republican Senator John McCain and his wife Cindy arrive at the Mountain View Christian Church polling place to cast their vote in Phoenix on Nov. 8, 2016. Republican Senator John McCain and his wife Cindy arrive at the Mountain View Christian Church polling place to cast their vote in Phoenix on Nov. 8, 2016.Ralph Freso—Getty Images  by [Andrew Katz](https://time.com/author/andrew-katz/)  ## Andrew Katz Nov 8, 2016 11:53 PM UTC Cindy McCain, wife of Sen. John McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate, voted on Tuesday at a church in Arizona. What’s fairly certain is that she voted for her husband to keep his longtime Senate seat. What’s not certain, if you read into her attire at the ballot box, is her choice for President. Her [bright white pantsuit](http://motto.time.com/4431032/dnc-hillary-clinton-white-pantsuit-meaning/) coincides with two [nationwide grassroots campaign](http://motto.time.com/4561290/hillary-clinton-wear-white-to-vote/?iid=sr-link1)s for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton: [#WearWhiteToVote](https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/wearwhitetovote/), in honor of suffragists who early last century rallied for women to get the right to vote, and [Pantsuit Nation](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/us/politics/facebook-pantsuit-nation-clinton.html), a Facebook group that is what it sounds like. So is McCain “with her”? A request for comment was not immediately returned. In October, the Senator withdrew his endorsement of Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee. McCain, who Trump claimed was not a war hero despite his years spent as a prisoner of war during Vietnam, fumed over Trump’s lewd comments about women. He said that he and Cindy would not vote for Trump or Clinton, despite originally endorsing Trump in May. “Donald Trump’s behavior this week, concluding with the disclosure of his demeaning comments about women and his boasts about sexual assaults, make it impossible to continue to offer even conditional support for his candidacy. Cindy, with her strong background in human rights and respect for women fully agrees with me in this,” McCain said in a statement. “Cindy and I will not vote for Donald Trump,” he added. “I have never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate and we will not vote for Hillary Clinton. 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