Meghan McCain says Joe Biden’s reversal on the Hyde Amendment that largely bans federal funding for abortions is a “shot fired” at conservatives, especially her.
The former vice president reversed his stance on the Hyde Amendment last week, drifting further Left in the Democratic primary for president and risking his chance to take on President Trump in 2020, according to McCain.
“He was for it for 40 years,” McCain told her co-hosts on “The View” on Monday. “I actually was surprised by [Biden’s flip] because he is filling the moderate compromise lane as the candidate and you are not going to out-progressive progressives.”
“He is alienating the lane that I still see as the easiest way to beat President Trump, and [Biden is] alienating a lot of moderate and especially pro-lifers like me. This is kind of a shot fired,” McCain continued.
“I’ve struggled with this all weekend because I know that my placement on the show is going to be tricky,” McCain said. “Obviously, I hate President Trump and I think just on a moral and ethical standpoint, he isn’t fit to serve. But when you are talking about brass politics, I feel slighted as a conservative and I feel slighted as someone who was open to [Biden] being president. I think that it is a dangerous lane for him to take for him to go super-far left. It’s very dangerous.”
