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NEW YORK—When Ben Sasse arrives at the hotel lobby bar of the Hyatt Grand Central in Midtown Manhattan, he tells me in an upbeat tone that he feels like he has a “new lease on life.” He tells the waiter he’ll have a Jack and Coke.
Since doctors told Sasse six months ago that he had three to four months left to live due to Stage IV metastatic pancreatic cancer, the former senator and college president has become something of an expert on gallows humor.
John McCormack is a senior editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was Washington correspondent at National Review and a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. When John is not reporting on politics and policy, he is probably enjoying life with his wife and daughters in northern Virginia or having fun visiting family in Wisconsin.
