“We don’t have any McCain Republicans in here, do we?” former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake asked her audience at a 2022 campaign event. “Well, get the hell out!” At the same event, Lake bashed “the party of McCain” before saying, in reference to the war hero and former senator John McCain, “I know. Boy, Arizona has delivered some losers, haven’t they?”
The late Arizona senator “would have laughed” at the remarks, Lake said. But his daughter Meghan certainly hasn’t — Meghan has been fiercely anti-Lake, because, she has said in the past, Arizonans deserve better. Lake extended what some are calling an “olive branch” to Meghan via social media yesterday, saying, “I’d love nothing more than to buy you a beer, a coffee or lunch and pick your brain about how we can work together to strengthen our state.”
Maybe it was Lake’s off-kilter remarks about Meghan’s dead father and Arizona’s former politician, maybe it was Lake’s staunch embrace of Trump-ism at the expense of the Arizona GOP, which might’ve won the governor’s seat if Lake was a better unifier; probably it was a combination of the two. But McCain wasn’t charmed by Lake’s Twitter appeal. “Kari Lake is trying to walk back her continued attacks on my Dad (& family) and all of his loyal supporters after telling them to ‘get the hell out’,” Meghan said in response. “Guess she realized she can’t become a Senator without us. No peace, b****. We see you for who you are – and are repulsed by it.”
It would take a lot for a girl to forgive a politician who publicly slandered her late father, and forgiveness might have been better sought in private, not on X. That Lake posted the appeal online only goes to prove Meghan’s criticisms of Lake — that she does everything for show or for votes. As now-senatorial candidate Lake said this week, “I want everyone’s vote . . . if you call yourself a McCain Republican . . . I want your vote.” To want a vote is not the same as to earn it. And turning to Twitter in hopes that voters might forget her previous misdeeds seems to be another one of Lake’s annoying publicity stunts, one that Meghan won’t accept. Bully for her.