John McCain is trying to convince Mayor Bloomberg to support Mitt Romney�s bid for president.

McCain � the GOP Arizona senator who lost to President Obama in 2008 � visited the mayor at City Hall yesterday to talk up the likely Republican nominee.

�I just came in to pay my respects to the mayor. He and I are old friends from many years back,� McCain told The Post as he left City Hall. �I told him that I just spent last weekend with Romney and I thought that Romney was on message . . . and tried to convince the mayor that we�ve got a winning campaign.�

Bloomberg spokesman Stu Loeser said, �Any day Sen. McCain has time to stop in at City Hall is a great day for us.�

(Source: NY Post)