Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Republican Senator John McCain, called out Vice President Kamala Harris for using her father's name to court moderate and right-leaning voters during a rally in Arizona, and threatened to "spill the tea" on what her dad has said about Harris.
"I know Democrats want to rewrite history and turn my dad into whatever illusion they need him to be for their political agendas," McCain noted in a post on X. "But please don't push me to share what I actually remember him saying about Kamala Harris," she added, highlighting her concern over the manipulation of her father's legacy to score political points.
In a separate post, McCain wrote: "Consider this my final warning shot, I will start spilling tea."
And consider this my final warning shot, I will start spilling tea.
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) October 11, 2024
At her rally Thursday, Harris spoke about the late Arizona senator and his pivotal role in preserving the Affordable Care Act, which former President Trump battled to repeal.
"It required one more vote to keep it intact, and that vote was the late great John McCain — a true American hero," said Harris.
"It was like out of a movie — the wooden doors swung open, and John McCain walked into the well of the U.S. Senate and said, 'No, ya don't,'" she recounted, giving the same thumbs-down gesture McCain used at the time as he voted to save the health care plan. "No, ya don't. No, ya don't."
Harris accused Donald Trump of intending to resume his efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act if he is again elected president. Bizarrely, Trump has been falsely boasting on the campaign trail that he saved the health care act after railing against it for years and trying to kill it through law, lawsuits and executive action.
The Harris rally was not the first times Democrats have characterized John McCain as a policy ally on the campaign trail.
The former president, on the other hand, has a long, bitter history attacking the popular, independent-minded Republican senator often critical of the former president.
Trump, who dodged the Vietnam War draft on a "bone spurs" medical excuse reportedly supplied by a doctor friend of his father, attacked McCain for being captured as a prisoner of war when he was a Navy pilot during the war. McCain spent five years in a Hanoi prisoner of war camp.
"He's not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured," Trump said while campaigning for the presidency in 2015. After McCain's death, Trump said in 2019: "I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be."
Meghan McCain, a former co-host of ABC's "The View" and a harsh critic of Trump, said last month that she would not endorse either party's nominee in the upcoming November election. She recently urged Harris to focus on pressing issues such as immigration and inflation, rather than resorting to personal attacks on Trump.
Since then, several members of McCain's family have backed candidates opposing Trump. Meghan has said she considers herself "the last Republican in the family," but nevertheless has no intention of endorsing either candidate.
