Meghan McCain, who vowed not to support either Vice President Kamala Harris or President-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 election, said this week that she will instead rely on her father, the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), voted. for chairman.
The Republican commentator and former co-host of “View” made the revelation during an appearance Katie Couric’s podcast ‘Next Question’ this week.
“I wrote to my father. Is that cliché?” she explained. “People are so angry with me, Katie, angry that I didn’t vote one way or the other. And I was like, I have this Christian guilt at night, and I don’t want to have anything on my conscience. And I just can’t ever vote for Trump. I can’t. I could never explain it to my children.”
As for her decision not to vote for Harris, McCain said it came down to “policy.”
“I really wanted her to give me a reason to vote for her, and I felt like it never happened, and there were some questions that she just couldn’t answer,” she told Couric. “And look, I’m a pro-life, pretty hardcore conservative woman, and governor [Tim] Walz was way too extreme for me. He actually scared me a lot more than she did. He is very radical on abortion and his record in 2020, George Floyd protests in Minneapolis. And I felt like he was cosplaying as a Republican to get my vote.
Members of the McCain family have spoken repeatedly against Trump, who in 2015 made inflammatory comments about John McCain’s military career and his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
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After Trump was elected president in 2016, he and John McCain met numerous times, most notably in 2017 when the senator scuttled the GOP’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. When McCain died of brain cancer in 2018, Trump was not invited to the funeral.
Meghan McCain’s decision to support neither Trump nor Harris is not surprising. In September, she said she had no plans to vote for either, even after her brother, Jimmy McCain, said he changed his voter registration from independent to Democratic with the intention of voting for Harris.
“I deeply respect the wide diversity of political opinions of all my family members and love them all dearly,” Meghan McCain wrote about Xformerly Twitter. “However, I remain a proud member of the Republican Party and hope for better days to come. (I’m not voting for Harris or Trump, I hope this clears things up).”
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Still, in her “Next Question” interview, she had some praise for Harris for offering Democrats a shot at the White House after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race in July.
“She had 100 days to do this, and I think she deserves to be commended for getting into the cockpit of a crashing plane and leveling it out the way she did,” McCain said. “I don’t know how many other politicians could have done that. And I actually think I can offer a lot of honest criticism of her. But I don’t think she is this cataclysmic disaster that she is now being portrayed as. I actually think it’s quite unfair.”
Listen to Meghan McCain’s ‘Next Question’ interview below. Her comments about voting for her father begin around the 30:25 mark.