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Meghan McCain calls Donald Trump and Kamala Harris ‘garbage candidates’

Sep 5, 2024, 4:35 AM

PHOENIX — Meghan McCain won’t be joining her younger brother Jim in voting for Kamala Harris.

In fact, McCain said she isn’t impressed by any of the presidential candidates set to be on the ballot this general election.

“I think this is a garbage election with garbage candidates,” she told KTAR News 92.3 FM’s The Mike Broomhead Show on Wednesday.

What’s Meghan McCain’s history with both candidates?

Her negative feelings toward Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump are well-documented. Tensions simmered for years after Trump made disparaging comments about her late father, longtime Arizona U.S. Sen. John McCain.

However, she also has had little love for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Last week, McCain called Harris “a coward” for not giving many press interviews after her nomination.

She joined the show to quell any rumors she might follow in her brother’s footsteps.

“I very deeply love and respect my brother Jimmy,” McCain said. “I respect his decision, but I believe Vice President Harris is an existential threat to the country.”

She’s still a staunch conservative — just not a MAGA believer.

“President Trump himself has had years and years and years to make this right,” McCain said. “He’s the one that started it. He’s the one that exacerbated it.”

Bottom line: It would be a cold day in hell before he won a political endorsement from her.

So who is Meghan McCain voting for in the 2024 general election?

“I tend to write in,” she said. “I’ve done that like the past three times, I believe.”

She was previously thinking about voting for RFK Jr. on Nov. 5, but he dropped out last month. Not only that, but the independent candidate also threw his support behind Trump.

“He’s too much for me, and I don’t think he’s a very serious person in general,” McCain said.

Now, she isn’t sure whose name she plans to write in. However, she said she would have been happy to cast her votes for Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who previously ran for president but dropped out earlier this year.

“I was a big supporter of his when he was running in the primary,” she said. “I love Nikki Haley. I actually would have happily and easily voted for any candidate running for president, except maybe Vivek Ramaswamy, and even then, I probably would have held my nose and voted for him anyway.”

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Meghan McCain calls Donald Trump and Kamala Harris ‘garbage candidates’