What did Amy Klobuchar say that rubbed Meghan McCain wrong way?

Meghan McCain apparently wasn’t pleased when her late father’s name was brought up by Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar during a presidential campaign event over Memorial Day weekend.

Saying she was speaking on behalf of the entire McCain family, “The View” co-host on Monday tweeted, “please be respectful to all of us and leave my fathers [sic] legacy and memory out of presidential politics.”

On behalf of the entire McCain family – @amyklobuchar please be respectful to all of us and leave my fathers legacy and memory out of presidential politics.

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) May 27, 2019

The tweet appears to have been in response to Klobuchar’s speech in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, when the senator from Minnesota told a story about sitting next to Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona during the 2017 inauguration of President Donald Trump.

“John McCain kept reciting to me names of dictators during that speech because he knew more than any of us what we were facing as a nation,” Klobuchar said.

“He understood it. He knew because he knew this man more than any of us did.”

In a statement to CNN, a spokesman for Klobuchar said she “has a deep respect” for the family of the Arizona political icon, who was the Republican nominee for president in 2008.

“Sen. Klobuchar had a longtime friendship with Sen. McCain; she has defended him against President Trump’s attacks in the past, and she has deep respect for his family,” Klobuchar’s communications director, Tim Hogan, said in a statement Monday night.

“While she was simply sharing a memory, she continues to believe that the best stories about Sen. McCain are not about the views he had about President Trump; they’re about McCain’s own valor and heroism.”

Monday’s rebuke of Klobuchar wasn’t the first time Meghan McCain took to Twitter in her father’s defense since his death in August 2018.

In February, she lashed out at Trump after the president reportedly took a swipe at her father over his no vote that sunk GOP legislation aiming to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

The president’s obsession with my father 6 months after his death is pathetic and telling – even at a time when he should be focusing on his message to the American public and the state of our union – the greatness of my father’s life and legacy haunts you. https://t.co/JLgHoZwCKD

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) February 6, 2019

She responded again a month later after Trump was critical of John McCain on Twitter.

No one will ever love you the way they loved my father…. I wish I had been given more Saturday’s with him. Maybe spend yours with your family instead of on twitter obsessing over mine? https://t.co/q7ezwmHiQ4

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) March 16, 2019

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