Conservative commentator Meghan McCain will be departing from The View at the conclusion of the show’s summer season at the end of July.
McCain, 36, who has been a co-host for the last four seasons, announced her end date on the show Thursday morning. Lately, her time on the show has been mired with fierce ideological clashes between herself, the sole conservative voice, and her more liberal co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, and Sara Haines.
“I’m just going to rip the Band-Aid off. I am here to tell all of you, my wonderful co-hosts and the viewers at home, that this is going to be my last season,” she said. “This was not an easy decision. It took a lot of thought and counsel and prayer and talking to my family and my close friends, and, you know, look: COVID has changed the world for all of us, and it changed the way, at least for me, the way I am looking at life, the way I’m living my life, the way I want my life to look like.”
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“On a professional note, this show is one of the hands-down greatest, most exhilarating, wonderful privileges of my entire life, and I have had so many amazing experiences in my life, and this is definitely one of the top. It is a privilege to work alongside such strong, brilliant, intelligent, incredible broadcasters like the four of you,” McCain added.
The co-host’s father is the late Sen. John McCain, while her mother, Cindy McCain, was recently named by President Joe Biden to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations World Food Program, a diplomatic mission based in Rome.
The McCains and former President Donald Trump have repeatedly spoken ill about one another, and the family endorsed Biden during the presidential election, though the television host continues to share her conservative take on the news of the day.
McCain and her husband, Ben Domenech, a Fox News contributor who has at times hosted the 7 p.m. show after the network shook up its lineup in January, had their first child, Liberty Sage McCain Domenech, last September.
She explained that they left New York when the show stopped doing the show in person because of the coronavirus pandemic and stayed in Washington, D.C., where they “split time,” and now they don’t want to go back.
“It’s where I grew up splitting time, and we have this incredible life here,” she added. “We’re surrounded by my family, his family, by friends, by this incredible support unit, and I think, as any new mom knows, when I think about where I want Liberty to have her first steps and her first words, I just have this really wonderful life here that, ultimately, I felt like I didn’t want to leave.”
Prior to her pregnancy, McCain was open about the couple’s struggle to have a child. She had a miscarriage during the summer of 2019.
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“For the past four years, Meghan McCain has brought her fierce determination and vast political knowledge and experience to The View,” ABC said of her departure in a statement obtained by the Washington Examiner. “She recently came to us with her decision to depart the show at the end of this season, a difficult choice that she made for her and her family that we respect and understand. We wish the best for Meghan as she plans her next chapter, and thank her for the passion and unique voice that she shared with us and our viewers each day.”
