Conservative commentator Meghan McCain warned of a divisive political climate should Judge Amy Coney Barrett be nominated for the Supreme Court.
While discussing the decision by President Trump to put forward a nominee for the high court before the election, McCain said the contentious confirmation hearings for Justice Brett Kavanaugh to replace retired Justice Anthony Kennedy serve as a forewarning for the political battle to come, predicting Democrats will do “anything and everything to smear any conservative” nominee.
“I honestly think, because I have been talking about this all weekend, that Kavanaugh really changed the game for a lot of Republicans, myself included. I was completely radicalized by the experience of watching him testify. I mean, there were accusations of him being someone who had been part of a gang rape gang and accusations that were completely baseless, and it showed that Democrats on their side will do anything and everything to smear any conservative,” McCain said on The View.
“Amy Coney Barrett is a hardcore Catholic. Among other things, she has seven children. I completely expect her to be, if she is the nominee, to be slandered and maimed in a way we’ve never seen before. And I don’t think that’s what anyone wants,” McCain concluded.
Sara Haines, a co-host on the show with McCain, then played a series of clips from Republican senators taking a contrasting opinion in 2016 when then-President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, for the Supreme Court and raised an objection to Barrett’s potential nomination based on comments she made about the “Kingdom of God.”
“I would be very careful slandering her Sara,” McCain said.
“I’m not. No,” Haines asserted.
“And this is what I’m talking about with the Kavanaugh stuff,” McCain continued.
“Meghan, please just give me —,” Haines replied before co-host Whoopi Goldberg ended the conversation by going to a commercial break.
