Meghan McCain of The View says she finds it difficult to identify herself as a Republican in the age of Donald Trump.
The daughter of the late Senator John McCain said on Sunday that while she still holds conservative views, she finds herself in a ‘no-man’s land’ for Republicans who value ‘character.’
‘I'm still a member of the Republican party and I vote a Republican ticket,’ McCain told Van Jones of CNN.
‘But Republicanism is so tied up with being for Trump.’
The 34-year-old former Fox News personality is a conservative voice on The View, the ABC daytime talk show in which she, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Abby Huntsman discuss the news of the day.
Meghan McCain of The View says she finds it difficult to identify herself as a Republican in the age of Donald Trump. She made the comment during an appearance on the Van Jones Show, which aired on CNN on Sunday
Huntsman and McCain are often at odds politically with everyone else on the panel.
Despite feelings of alienation from the GOP, McCain says not to mistake her for a liberal.
‘I'm not a liberal and I think it would be intellectually dishonest for me to go on TV and start espousing beliefs I don't believe in,’ she said.
Nonetheless, McCain says her moderate brand of Republicanism is having trouble finding a home in the current political climate.
‘We're so outnumbered,’ she said.
‘I think something like 80 percent of Republicans support President Trump.
‘Maybe they're doing it because they don't have another option but I think the populist Trump brand really has taken over, which is why there's this sort of no-mans-land that I'm in because I didn't become a Never Trump-er, either.’
‘Never Trumper’ is a term used to describe the wing of the Republican Party that is opposed to Trump and vows never to support him.
McCain said that the GOP under Trump ‘is not what I recognize anymore.’
‘Its character seems to be gone,’ she said.
Her father, Senator John McCain, died last August from brain cancer. He was 81 years old. The McCain family refused to extend an invite to the state funeral to Trump. Meghan McCain is seen above near her father's casket at Washington National Cathedral on September 1
‘Growing up, my father was, like, militant about character.
‘Now it seems like lying is OK. Stealing, it's a little nebulous.
‘I don't think those are American characteristics. And it scares me – a lot.’
McCain says that the recent argument over Trump’s proposed border wall has her feeling like she doesn’t fully belong in either camp.
‘Sometimes I feel like when I hear, “Anyone who supports the wall is racist,” it's a trigger for me because I know people who are not racist who support the wall,’ she says.
McCain wants her liberal friends to understand the viewpoint of Americans living near the border who are impacted by illegal immigration.
She also takes offense at the notion that Republicans are inherently racist because of the policy positions they support.
McCain said her father was the victim of a racist smear campaign during his unsuccessful run for the Republican nomination in 2000 against the eventual nominee, George W. Bush.
‘Of all the things I've ever been accused of, (being called a racist) is the most deeply hurtful,' she said.
The daughter of the late Senator John McCain said on Sunday that while she still holds conservative views, she finds herself in a ‘no-man’s land’ for Republicans who value ‘character.' She is seen above with her father before his death last year
‘There was a very famous political moment in 2000 when my father was running (for the Republican presidential nomination) when (Bush campaign manager) Karl Rove had a whisper campaign done saying my father had an illegitimate black child, who is my sister Bridget,’ she recalled.
‘So at a very young age, I had to reconcile (Republicanism and race).’
Her father, Senator John McCain, died last August from brain cancer. He was 81 years old.
The McCain family refused to extend an invite to the state funeral to Trump, who mocked the late Senator for being captured during the Vietnam War.
Trump has also repeatedly criticized McCain for sinking the GOP-led effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
At the state funeral in Washington, Meghan McCain used her eulogy to forcefully denounce Trump, though never by name.
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