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Meghan McCain

Meghan Marguerite McCain (born October 23, 1984) is an American television personality, columnist, and author. She has worked for ABC News, Fox News, and MSNBC. She is the daughter of politician John McCain and diplomat Cindy McCain. McCain has been a public figure for much of her life, first appearing at the 1996 Republican National Convention.

Meghan McCain

Meghan Marguerite McCain

(1984-10-23) October 23, 1984
  • Television personality
  • columnist
  • author
(m. 2017)

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McCain received media attention in her own right in 2007 for her blog, McCain Blogette. On the blog, she documented life during the John McCain 2008 presidential campaign. In 2009, she became a contributing writer for The Daily Beast. From 2016 to 2017, she co-hosted the daytime talk show Outnumbered. She joined the daytime talk show The View shortly thereafter, co-hosting it until 2021. McCain became a columnist for the Daily Mail website following her departure from The View.

Early life and education[edit]

McCain is the eldest of the four children of Senator John McCain and Cindy McCain.[2] She 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.[3] She appeared at the 1996 Republican National Convention when she was 11 years of age.[4] On April 5, 2003, McCain was presented to society at the Board of Visitors Debutante Ball at the Camelback Inn in Paradise Valley, Arizona.[5]


She attended Columbia University, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in art history in 2007.[6] McCain originally planned to become a music journalist and interned at Newsweek and Saturday Night Live.[7]

Personal life[edit]

In July 2017, McCain became engaged to conservative writer and commentator Ben Domenech. They were married on November 21, 2017, at McCain's family ranch in Page Springs, Arizona.[74] In July 2019, McCain revealed that she had miscarried earlier that year.[75] She gave birth to the couple's first daughter in September 2020.[76] McCain gave birth to a second daughter in January 2023.[77]

McCain, Meghan (2008). . New York: Aladdin Paperbacks. ISBN 978-1-4169-7528-1. OCLC 230206464.

My Dad, John McCain

McCain, Meghan (2010). . Hyperion. ISBN 978-1-4013-2377-6.

Dirty Sexy Politics

McCain, Meghan; (2012). America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-307-99023-5.

Black, Michael Ian

McCain, Meghan (2022). Bad Republican.

Broadcast journalism

New Yorkers in journalism

at The Daily Beast

Column archives

on C-SPAN

Appearances

at IMDb

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collected news and commentary at The New York Times

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on the Muck Rack journalist listing site

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Media related to Meghan McCain at Wikimedia Commons