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Political podcast host Meghan McCain criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for invoking her late father, Senator John McCain, in a recent speech.
During a campaign stop in Arizona, Harris claimed that the late senator and former presidential candidate for the GOP once told her she’d make a “great senator” after a heated committee hearing. On “2Way Tonight,” McCain expressed her discomfort with politicians frequently referencing her father, stating she was not “thrilled” with Harris’s anecdote, as it didn’t seem to align with how her father would speak.
“Everybody does it on both sides. I’m really — I’m not thrilled with this, because I just find that — maybe it did happen. To me, it doesn’t sound like him … Democrats really want to turn my dad into a progressive liberal that like, six years after his death, he’s now just the most liberal progressive that ever existed when he’s one of the most conservative senators in American modern history,” McCain stated. “I think it’s because he’s still so popular in Arizona, even now and there’s data and polling and research that’s been done by polling institutes and the McCain Institute that shows that around 14% people in Arizona who are Republicans consider themselves McCain Republicans… So I’m sure that’s what she’s going for, and those are people who are obviously not Trumpers.”
McCain further stated that the frequent mentions of her late father are becoming “disrespectful,” implying that John McCain did not speak highly of Kamala Harris, claiming:
“I think it’s getting to the point of being disrespectful the way everyone is talking about him, because I find so much of it — it just doesn’t sound like him. We were obviously incredibly close, and I worked with him both professionally, and we were very close personally. It’s just, it’s hard. I remember what he actually said about Vice President Harris in private,” McCain added. “I actually was, like, remembering a specific dinner party with something he said, which, I don’t want to be disrespectful or uncouth and share it right here, but, it just doesn’t, just sounds like not real to me.”
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