Meghan McCain, the daughter of late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, called out Vice President Kamala Harris Friday after the Democratic presidential nominee shared an anecdote about an interaction she reportedly had with the six-term senator.
Harris was stumping at a Republicans for Harris event in Scottsdale, Arizona, Friday afternoon when she claimed John McCain, who represented the Grand Canyon State in the U.S. Senate until his death in 2018, once praised her.
Harris said the exchange happened after she and McCain were “going after each other” at a committee hearing. The Republican approached her later that day, she said.
“I step onto the floor of the well of the Senate later that day — we had votes — and I passed by John McCain, and he looks at me, and he says, ‘Kid, come over here. You’re going to make a great senator,’” Harris recalled. “True story. True story.”
While speaking to the crowd, Harris then commended the late Arizona senator and called him an “incredible American hero.” But Meghan McCain found the story dubious and publicly addressed it on X Friday night.
“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,” McCain wrote.
“And consider this my final warning shot, I will start spilling tea.”
On Saturday, McCain called her critics “lunatics” in response to the backlash.
“A lot of really triggered democrats in my timeline who claim they know more about my dad than well…. his daughter,” she wrote. “Get a grip on reality, you lunatics.”
NEW: Meghan McCain rips Kamala Harris for apparently making up a story about how John McCain told her she would “make a great senator.”
The comments came during an interview with @MarkHalperin after Harris told a crowd about how much McCain loved her.
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Meghan McCain rips Kamala Harris for apparently making up a story about how John McCain told her she would “make a great senator.”
The comments came during an interview with @MarkHalperin after Harris told a crowd about how much McCain loved her.
“I remember what he actually said about Harris in private.”
“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.”
“I remember what he actually said about Vice President Harris in private. I remember a specific dinner party with something he said.”
“She never felt the need to share [the story], except 24 days before the election in Arizona, when you’re, for all intensive purposes… flatlining with independents.”
“So I am sick of it, but I also understand that, like, politicians are going to politician, and they’ve got to invoke whatever they can, wherever they can.”
“On both sides, everybody does it and it’s hilarious because some of the people who were the most cruel to him in life have sainted him in de*th.”
