Meghan McCain Reveals She Voted For Her Late Father, John McCain, In 2024 Election

Former The View cohost Meghan McCain has revealed that in the 2024 presidential election, she did not vote for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. Instead, she cast her vote for her late father, Sen. John McCain, who died in 2018 from brain cancer.

In an interview on the iHeart podcast Next Questions With Katie Couric, McCain shared her unconventional decision. “I wrote in my dad. Is that cliche? I’m so sorry, I know, I know. It’s so… people are mad at me. People are so mad at me, Katie. I mean, mad that I didn’t vote either way,” the 40-year-old said.

“And I was like, I have such Christian guilt at night, and I don’t want anything on my conscience with any of it. I just can never vote for Trump. I can’t do it. I could never explain it to my children.”

When pressed by Couric about why she chose not to vote for Harris, given her vocal opposition to Trump in the past, McCain pointed to policy differences. “I really wanted her to give me a reason to vote for her, and I just felt like it never happened. There were some questions that she just couldn’t answer,” she explained. “And look, I’m a pro-life, pretty hardcore conservative woman and Gov. [Tim] Walz was way too extreme for me. He actually, like, scared me a lot more than she did.”

Despite her decision, McCain acknowledged Harris’ efforts ahead of the Nov. 5 election. “I don’t know how many other politicians could’ve done that,” she said, referring to Harris’ handling of political challenges. “But, I don’t think she’s this cataclysmic disaster that she’s being portrayed as. I actually think it’s pretty unfair.”

McCain speculated that her father likely wouldn’t have supported Harris either but praised the vice president for “getting in the cockpit of a crashing plane and leveling it out the way she did.”

Her praise for Harris contrasts sharply with earlier remarks made on her Citizen McCain podcast in January, where she criticized Harris’ demeanor and gender in harsh terms. “She sounds like a stoner, like a 19-year-old stoner in college who’s high at 3 a.m. She makes me so uncomfortable,” McCain said, referring to Harris’ 2022 speech about the passage of time. “I don’t like watching her. I don’t like listening to her.”

She added: “If anything, Vice President Harris has proven to me that maybe a woman can’t be Vice President. I actually think she’s setting feminism back 10 years.”

Before launching her own podcasting ventures, McCain cohosted The View from 2017 to 2021. She previously worked as a Fox News contributor and joined the network’s Outnumbered program panel in 2016.

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