Meghan McCain says she voted for dead dad in 2024 presidential election

Even successful death, John McCain has his daughter’s ballot for president.

In a podcast interrogation released Thursday, Meghan McCain revealed she cast a ballot for her dormant dad arsenic a write-in for president connected her 2024 ballot.

The Republican governmental commentator and girl of the precocious Arizona senator — who died successful 2018 aft a conflict with encephalon crab — waxed poetic astir authorities connected the latest occurrence of “Next Question with Katie Couric.”

“I wrote successful my dad,” she told Couric. “People are huffy astatine me. People are truthful huffy astatine me, Katie. I mean, huffy that I didn’t ballot either way.”

McCain went connected to explicate the reasoning down her decision, saying she could “never” ballot for Donald Trump but couldn’t enactment Kamala Harris either.

“I don’t privation thing connected my conscience with immoderate of it,” she said. “I tin ne'er ballot for Trump. I can’t bash it. I could ne'er explicate it to my children.”

When probed further connected wherefore she didn’t ballot for Harris, McCain told Couric she “really wanted” the VP to “give maine a crushed to ballot for her and I conscionable felt similar it ne'er happened.”

But possibly adjacent much than Harris, McCain said her inability to ballot for the Democratic summons was mostly owed to Harris’ moving mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

“Look, I’m a pro-life, beauteous hardcore blimpish pistillate and Governor Walz was mode excessively utmost for me,” McCain said. “He really frightened maine a batch much than she did. He’s precise extremist connected termination and his grounds during the 2020 George Floyd protests successful Minneapolis…I felt similar helium was cosplaying arsenic a Republican to effort to get my vote.”

John McCain, who served arsenic a U.S. typical and legislator from Arizona for implicit 30 years, besides ran an unsuccessful bid for president successful 2008. He reduced his relation successful the Senate aft being diagnosed with glioblastoma successful 2017, yet dying from the illness a twelvemonth later.

His decease inactive profoundly affects his oldest daughter.

“My dada dying gutted me,” Meghan McCain said. “I ever consciousness similar there’s beingness earlier my dada died and aft my dada died. I didn’t go a antithetic person, but it conscionable hardens you and ages you erstwhile you suffer anyone to encephalon cancer. You conscionable go a antithetic mentation of yourself.”

But the 40-year-old parent of 2 said she’s relieved her begetter is not present to carnivore witnesser to the polarizing governmental climate.

“There’s a portion of maine that’s blessed he’s not live to spot each this, due to the fact that it would person breached his bosom truthful severely to spot the divisions successful the state the mode they are.”