Even in dying, John McCain has his daughter’s vote for president.
In a podcast interview launched Thursday, Meghan McCain revealed she solid a vote for her lifeless dad as a write-in for president on her 2024 poll.
The Republican political commentator and daughter of the late Arizona senator — who died in 2018 after a battle with mind most cancers — waxed poetic about politics on the newest episode of “Next Question with Katie Couric.”
“I wrote in my dad,” she instructed Couric. “People are mad at me. People are so mad at me, Katie. I mean, mad that I didn’t vote either way.”
McCain went on to elucidate the reasoning behind her resolution, saying she might “never” vote for Donald Trump however couldn’t help Kamala Harris both.
“I don’t want anything on my conscience with any of it,” she mentioned. “I can never vote for Trump. I can’t do it. I could never explain it to my children.”
When probed additional on why she didn’t vote for Harris, McCain instructed Couric she “really wanted” the VP to “give me a reason to vote for her and I just felt like it never happened.”
However maybe much more than Harris, McCain mentioned her incapability to vote for the Democratic ticket was largely attributable to Harris’ working mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
“Look, I’m a pro-life, pretty hardcore conservative woman and Governor Walz was way too extreme for me,” McCain mentioned. “He actually scared me a lot more than she did. He’s very radical on abortion and his record during the 2020 George Floyd protests in Minneapolis…I felt like he was cosplaying as a Republican to try to get my vote.”
John McCain, who served as a U.S. consultant and senator from Arizona for over 30 years, additionally ran an unsuccessful bid for president in 2008. He lowered his position within the Senate after being identified with glioblastoma in 2017, finally dying from the illness a yr later.
His dying nonetheless deeply impacts his oldest daughter.
“My dad dying gutted me,” Meghan McCain mentioned. “I always feel like there’s life before my dad died and after my dad died. I didn’t become a different person, but it just hardens you and ages you when you lose anyone to brain cancer. You just become a different version of yourself.”
However the 40-year-old mom of two mentioned she’s relieved her father shouldn’t be right here to bear witness to the polarizing political local weather.
“There’s a part of me that’s happy he’s not alive to see all this, because it would have broken his heart so badly to see the divisions in the country the way they are.”
