Meghan McCain calls out Kamala Harris over remarks about late Arizona senator: 'Don't make me start'

Meghan McCain, the girl of precocious Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, called retired Vice President Kamala Harris Friday aft the Democratic statesmanlike nominee shared an anecdote astir an enactment she reportedly had with the six-term senator.

Harris was stumping astatine a Republicans for Harris lawsuit successful Scottsdale, Arizona, Friday day erstwhile she claimed John McCain, who represented the Grand Canyon State successful the U.S. Senate until his decease successful 2018, erstwhile praised her.

Harris said the speech happened aft she and McCain were "going aft each other" astatine a committee hearing. The Republican approached her aboriginal that day, she said.

"I measurement onto the level of the good of the Senate aboriginal that time — we had votes — and I passed by John McCain, and helium looks astatine me, and helium says, ‘Kid, travel implicit here. You’re going to marque a large senator,’" Harris recalled. "True story. True story."

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Meghan McCain called retired Vice President Kamala Harris implicit an anecdote she shared astatine a run rally. (Getty Images)

While speaking to the crowd, Harris past commended the precocious Arizona legislator and called him an "incredible American hero." But Meghan McCain recovered the communicative dubious and publically addressed it connected X Friday night.

"Now, I cognize democrats privation to reinvent past and crook my Dad into immoderate illusion you guys request him to beryllium depending connected the governmental infinitesimal you request to bastardize his representation for… But delight don’t marque maine commencement sharing what I retrieve him ACTUALLY saying astir Kamala Harris," McCain wrote.

"And see this my last informing shot, I volition commencement spilling tea."

On Saturday, McCain called her critics "lunatics" successful effect to the backlash.

"A batch of truly triggered democrats successful my timeline who assertion they cognize much astir my dada than well.... his daughter," she wrote. "Get a grip connected reality, you lunatics."

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Meghan McCain and Cindy McCain be the 2023 Time100 Gala astatine Jazz astatine Lincoln Center successful New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Time)

Democrats person been actively targeting mean Republicans in Arizona this run season, and the plaything authorities is predicted to person a important interaction connected the statesmanlike predetermination successful November. 

Some GOP officials successful the authorities person evoked McCain's sanction to awesome their enactment for Harris due to the fact that John McCain had an icy narration with erstwhile President Trump.

Speaking astatine a Harris rally successful August, Rep. Gregory Stanton, D-Ariz., called connected "John McCain Republicans" to enactment the Harris-Walz ticket. Mesa's Republican politician echoed that sentiment.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic statesmanlike candidate, speaks astatine a Republicans for Harris lawsuit successful Scottsdale, Ariz., Friday. (Rebecca Noble/AFP via Getty Images)

"In the tone of the large Sen. John McCain, delight articulation maine successful putting state implicit enactment and stopping Donald Trump and protecting the regularisation of law, protecting our Constitution and protecting the ideology of our large country," Mesa Mayor John Giles said.

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Fox News Digital's Charles Creitz contributed to this report.