Arizona senator John McCain stands in support of the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. He expressed some misgivings about Trump’s proposed policies in an interview with The Daily Courier.

McCain said that, “I do predict you may see a larger vote for (Libertarian candidate Gary) Johnson, than we’ve ever seen in history, just because a poll this morning had some overwhelming number of the American people (saying) they can’t stand either one of them.” Although, he was not present at Trump’s Phoenix rally on Wednesday.

“It’s just nonsense,” he said. “To say you’re going to deport 11 million people is foolish. It’s just not rational.”

While advocating immigration reform, he said, “That’s not amnesty, that’s a damn hard path,” he said. “We can’t have a society in America where 11 million people are estranged. You’ve got to give them a chance.”

Over the Mexico border wall, he said that, “The way you secure the border is the way the Israelis do the Israelis have surveillance of every inch of the border with the Sinai,” controlled from command centers, and when “they see somebody try to penetrate, they send out a SWAT team.”

“If I were in either one of their shoes (Clinton and Trump), the first thing I’d do after inauguration day is, I’d call on the (party) leaders and I’d say, ‘Every single American that I’ve ever met wants tax reform. Let’s do tax reform,” he said, because it “would show the American people we can work together. That’s in everybody’s interest.”

“If we don’t, I worry about the legitimacy, if the majority of the population doesn’t think you’re legitimate, the consequences of that over time can’t be good,” he said.

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