“The View” co-host fumed on X as she claimed that Democrats have “bastardized” her father’s memory for their own political aims.
“Now, I know democrats want to reinvent history and turn my Dad into any illusion you guys need him to be depending on the political moment you need to bastardize his memory for,” the 39-year-old pundit wrote on X, “But please don’t make me start sharing what I remember him ACTUALLY saying about Kamala Harris…”
“And consider this my final warning, I will start spilling tea,” she added.
McCain issued the threat after Harris shared an anecdote of an interaction she had with the late Arizona senator in 2018, prior to his death from a brain tumor.
“And I passed by John McCain,” Harris intoned at a campaign rally in Scottsdale, Ariz., “And he looks at me and he says, ‘Kid, come over here. You’re going to make a great senator.’ True story. True story. True story.”
Harris went on, “That was John McCain. That was John McCain. I was talking about him last night at a rally, right? John McCain, who – you know, we didn’t agree on everything, but, man, I mean, what about an incredible American hero? Again, strength – strength – right? We know what the former president said about John McCain – I’m not going to repeat it here – but strength.”
Harris was referring to when then-presidential candidate Donald Trump said in 2015 that John McCain was “only a war hero because he got captured, I like people that weren’t captured.”
The controversial statement – a paraphrase of a Chris Rock joke from his 2008 special “Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger” – drew ire from both sides of the political aisle and solidified the legendary senator and Trump as political enemies.
John McCain would famously cast the deciding “no” vote on President Trump’s attempted Obamacare repeal.
The late senator’s daughter is no friend of Trump, though “spilling tea” on Harris could deflate the efforts of Democrats to court undecided and independent voters by touting bipartisan support amongst institutional politicians.
The Harris campaign and their supporters have also touted the support of former Vice President and arch-conservative Dick Cheney.
