Meghan Marguerite McCain was born on October 23,1984 and is an American television personality, columnist, and author.
31 Facts About Meghan McCain
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Meghan McCain has worked for ABC News, Fox News, and MSNBC.
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Meghan McCain joined the daytime talk show The View shortly thereafter, co-hosting it until 2021.
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Meghan McCain became a columnist for the Daily Mail website following her departure from The View.
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Meghan McCain was born on October 23,1984, in Phoenix, Arizona, and attended Phoenix Country Day School and Xavier College Preparatory, an all-girl private Catholic high school.
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Meghan McCain appeared at the 1996 Republican National Convention when she was 11 years of age.
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Meghan McCain attended Columbia University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in art history in 2007.
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Meghan McCain originally planned to become a music journalist and interned at Newsweek and Saturday Night Live.
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Meghan McCain launched a blog titled Meghan McCain Blogette in 2007, documenting her father's presidential campaign as well as musing about fashion, music, and pop culture.
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On June 12,2008, Meghan McCain wrote on her blog that she had changed her party registration to Republican.
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Meghan McCain began writing for The Daily Beast in January 2009.
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Statements such as these led news reports and commentators including Rachel Maddow and Kathleen Parker to conclude that Meghan McCain had the same "maverick gene" as her father.
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Meghan McCain states that the Republican Party seemed "to have lost its way in the last ten years," that the conservative movement seemed "hell-bent on restricting our freedoms rather than expanding them," and that within the Republican Party, she felt a certain stress to take over the ideas of others, like Mitt Romney, especially regarding same-sex marriage, which was a danger for the existence of the party.
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Meghan McCain has publicly discussed her struggles with grief from the death of her father, John Meghan McCain in 2018.
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In December 2019, Meghan McCain spoke with Dr Lucy Kalanithi on stage at the annual End Well Symposium about challenging taboos and destigmatizing conversations about grief and death.
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In September 2021, Meghan McCain became an opinion columnist for the tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail.
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In September 2013, her road-based talk show Raising Meghan McCain began on the start-up Pivot cable and satellite television channel.
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Meghan McCain was later added as a co-host to the show TakePart Live on the same channel, appearing with Jacob Soboroff beginning in May 2014.
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Meghan McCain signed on as a Fox News contributor in July 2015 and was named a regular co-host of the afternoon talk program Outnumbered on November 14,2016.
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Meghan McCain made her debut on the October 9,2017, episode.
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Meghan McCain had previously guest co-hosted the show in 2008 and 2010.
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Meghan McCain announced her exit from the show after her fourth season in July 2021.
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Meghan McCain agrees with her father's positions on global warming, stem-cell research, and supporting environmentalist legislation.
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Meghan McCain objected to the Arizona SB1070 anti-illegal immigration law, which her father supported.
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In June 2009, Meghan McCain posed for the NOH8 Campaign, a celebrity photo project that protests California's Proposition 8 constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, which her mother Cindy posed for.
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Meghan McCain was in favor of repealing "Don't ask, don't tell" and allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the US military, a position her father adopted prior to his 2008 presidential run.
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Meghan McCain co-hosted GLAAD's Concert for Love and Acceptance in Nashville in 2015.
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In July 2017, Meghan McCain became engaged to conservative writer and commentator Ben Domenech.
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In July 2019, Meghan McCain revealed that she had miscarried earlier that year.
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Meghan McCain gave birth to the couple's first daughter in 2020.
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Meghan McCain gave birth to a second daughter in January 2023.