Meghan McCain is reportedly set to leave “The View” after nearly four years as the ABC show’s lone conservative panelist.
A source told Variety the 36-year-old commentator arrived at the decision on her own and said recent spars between McCain and her leftist co-hosts didn’t play into her decision to exit the morning talk show.
“We have tried to keep her,” a Disney source explained to the Daily Mail, “but she is adamant that now is the right time for her to leave.”
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Although McCain’s contract with ABC is not yet expired, she reportedly approached the network earlier this summer to ask to be released from the agreement because she doesn’t want to move back to New York City since relocating to Washington, D.C., with her husband Ben Domenech, a political commentator in his own right, and their daughter, Liberty.
The choice to leave, though, does mark a shift in McCain’s public comments.
In mid-January, she told fellow talk show host Andy Cohen she was “not going anywhere on the show,” adding, “We all have to live and co-exist together, just like Americans right now, which is a little deeper of an answer, but we’re all going to try and co-exist and I really want to have us all move forward.”
Interestingly, the decision by McCain allegedly blindsided her co-hosts, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, and Ana Navarro.
McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), recently caught media attention for condemning President Joe Biden’s stance on abortion.
She said she believes Biden’s support for abortion — and his desire to do away with the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of taxpayer dollars for abortions — “is doing grave spiritual harm to himself and harm to this country.”
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“When it comes to the separation of church and state, the onus is on the government, not the church,” said McCain. “I don’t try and proselytize my spiritual journey on other people, but if you are a devout Catholic, as President Biden claims to be, abortion is a cardinal sin that can do deep spiritual harm to you.”
The co-host also said she is perplexed by Biden’s suggestion that he is personally opposed to abortion, but unwilling to limit its access for others.
She likened it to a person condemning murder as morally wrong for himself or herself, but telling others “it’s fine” if they “want to murder a little.”