Meghan McCain, co-host of ABC’s The View, said she loves Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden in the same way the she loved her father John McCain.
“I love Biden in a way that I loved my father,” McCain said in an interview Thursday with Elle.
McCain, 34, added that it would be hard for her to remain neutral in the upcoming 2020 presidential election with the former vice president running.
“I keep trying to think of what my dad would do in this situation,” she said. “I want to see what Biden’s message will be. If he’s the person I know he is, it’s going to be very tough [to remain neutral].”
The Washington Examiner reported in April that the McCain family was planning to support Biden in his run for the White House, according to multiple sources close to the family. Cindy McCain, the late senator’s widow, responded to the report claiming Biden was a “dear friend of the McCain Family” but that she had “no intention of getting involved in presidential politics.”
Joe Biden is a wonderful man and dear friend of the McCain Family. However, I have no intention of getting involved in presidential politics.
— Cindy McCain (@cindymccain) April 24, 2019
Two days later, Biden appeared on The View with Meghan McCain, during which the two shared a heartfelt moment over the memory of her late father.
Biden, 76, was a long time friend of McCain’s father, serving over two decades with the Arizona Republican in the U.S. Senate. Last August, the Delaware Democrat eulogized his former colleague at his funeral.
“My name’s Joe Biden. I’m a Democrat. And I loved John McCain,” Biden said at the time.
“The way I look at it, the way I thought about it was that I always thought of John as a brother,” he added. “We had a hell of a lot of family fights. We go a long way.”
Meghan McCain’s consideration of support for Biden follows a rocky relationship between her family and President Trump, though she admitted in the interview that she had become more conservative since the rise of Trump.
“The explosion in the culture war, which has happened with the rise of Trump, has made me more conservative,” she said. “No Republican is good enough for a certain group of people. All Republicans are evil to a certain segment of the media. And you become more tribal, and more territorial of your people and what you represent. And that has certainly happened to me.”
