Meghan McCain, the daughter of late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, known as out Vice President Kamala Harris Friday after the Democratic presidential nominee shared an anecdote about an interplay she reportedly had with the six-term senator.
Harris was stumping at a Republicans for Harris occasion in Scottsdale, Arizona, Friday afternoon when she claimed John McCain, who represented the Grand Canyon State within the U.S. Senate till his dying in 2018, as soon as praised her.
Harris stated the alternate occurred after she and McCain had been “going after each other” at a committee listening to. The Republican approached her later that day, she stated.
“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.”
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Meghan McCain known as out Vice President Kamala Harris over an anecdote she shared at a marketing campaign rally. (Getty Pictures)
Whereas chatting with the group, Harris then counseled the late Arizona senator and known as him an “incredible American hero.” However Meghan McCain discovered the story doubtful and publicly addressed it on X Friday evening.
“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 known as 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.”
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Meghan McCain and Cindy McCain attend the 2023 Time100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Heart in New York Metropolis. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Pictures for Time)
Democrats have been actively focusing on reasonable Republicans in Arizona this marketing campaign season, and the swing state is predicted to have a major influence on the presidential election in November.
Some GOP officers within the state have evoked McCain’s identify to sign their help for Harris as a result of John McCain had an icy relationship with former President Trump.
Talking at a Harris rally in August, Rep. Gregory Stanton, D-Ariz., known as on “John McCain Republicans” to help the Harris-Walz ticket. Mesa’s Republican mayor echoed that sentiment.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, speaks at a Republicans for Harris occasion in Scottsdale, Ariz., Friday. (Rebecca Noble/AFP through Getty Pictures)
“In the spirit of the great Sen. John McCain, please join me in putting country over party and stopping Donald Trump and protecting the rule of law, protecting our Constitution and protecting the democracy of our great country,” Mesa Mayor John Giles stated.
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Fox Information Digital’s Charles Creitz contributed to this report.
