Meghan McCain isn’t pleased by how Democrats are invoking her late father’s name to make a case for Vice President Kamala Harris.
The former “View” co-host threatened to start “spilling tea” about Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) real opinion of Harris in a post on X, formerly called Twitter, on Friday.
“Now, I know democrats want to reinvent history and turn my Dad into any illusion you guys need him to be depending on the political moment you need to bastardize his memory for. But please don’t make me start sharing what I remember him ACTUALLY saying about Kamala Harris,” Meghan McCain wrote.
“And consider this my final warning, I will start spilling tea,” she added in a follow-up post.
Her messages came after Harris told a glowing anecdote about working with the late senator during a “Republicans for Harris” rally in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Friday.
Recalling a time she crossed paths with John McCain in Congress after a tense committee hearing earlier in the day, Harris remembered the former U.S. Navy officer telling her, “Kid, come over here. You’re going to make a great senator.”
She also called McCain, who died in 2018 of brain cancer, an “incredible American hero” during a Thursday rally in the Grand Canyon State.
Harris and her allies seem to be hoping they can sway undecided Republican voters by aligning the vice president with the memory of McCain, whose more moderate style of conservative politics made him a target of former President Donald Trump.
Upset with McCain’s willingness to break with his own party on issues like healthcare, LGBTQ rights, gun regulations and more, Trump has repeatedly insulted the late Arizona senator over the years.
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During his run for president in 2015, Trump said that McCain, a prisoner of war during Vietnam, was “only a war hero because he got captured.”
Trump continued to harbor harsh feelings for McCain even after his death.
In 2019, he told reporters, “I never was a fan of John McCain, and I never will be.”
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