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“With everything, I never cease to be amazed,” she said. “I cannot understand a man who has been the way he’s been about John McCain since the very beginning. There’s never any room for apology from Trump, there’s never any room for atonement and there’s never any room for both sides to get along and respect each other.”

Cooper Miller, a Republican who has already mailed in his ballot for Kelli Ward ahead of Tuesday's primary to fill retiring Sen. Jeff Flake’s seat, is a fan of Trump and while he expressed some misgivings about the handling of the White House flag, the president’s reaction doesn’t bother him too much given his tense relationship with McCain.

“President Trump should have kept it lowered or whatever … I’m not all that disappointed about it. I do appreciate him being honest rather than overly sycophantic about it but he could have done a few things more to show respect for such a war hero,” Miller said.

“I appreciate that he was genuine and nice to the family but the fact is is that he and McCain were kind of enemies so I kind of appreciate that he wasn’t sycophantic,” he said.

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Marissa Speed, a fellow Ward-supporter from Arizona, agrees, saying that she thought Trump's condolence tweet was \"diplomatic\" and in keeping with his character.

\"I'm glad he didn’t say anything flowery because I would have said 'That’s hypocritical,'\" Speed told ABC News.

\"I think McCain made it clear he doesn’t want him at the funeral, so why would he pretend to say something that he doesn’t feel? I am fine with it,\" she said.

For their part, the McCain family’s spokesperson said that “the entire focus of the McCain family is on John McCain. There really is no room in the McCain family to focus on anything today but him. There’s lots to celebrate, there’s lots to mourn, and I think any discussion of what any individual has done or said… If you look at the gravity of all the reactions from around the world, world leaders, our allies, it’s been immense, and I think they choose to focus on that.”

Arizonans across the Copper State will continue to mourn their six-term senator, both publicly with the arranged events on Wednesday and Thursday, and privately.

Republican cattle rancher John Ladd told ABC News that he met McCain multiple times through the years, and though they had their differences, he admired McCain greatly.

“I didn’t agree with his immigration stance but as a person, I had the utmost respect for him,” Ladd said.

“If you asked me who would you want to spend the day with, I’d say McCain.”

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story used the incorrect state nickname for Arizona. It has since been updated.

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