Meghan McCain, daughter of the six-term American senator and Republican presidential candidate in 2008, John McCain, criticized an Arizona County Republican committee on Saturday for censoring his mother for supporting President-elect Joe Biden.
On Saturday, the Maricopa County Republican Committee passed a resolution to censor Cindy McCain for endorsing Biden about President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to the Republican Party. The move represents only McCain’s symbolic disapproval, but the Arizona Republican Party has signaled that the state party may soon vote on a similar resolution.
“Oh, how will she survive such a thing?!?” Meghan McCain tweeted. “And this is the REAL problem facing the Arizona GOP, my mom! A few days after a domestic terrorist attack led by manic supporters of Trump.”
Oh, how will she survive such a thing?!? 🙄
And this is the REAL problem facing the Arizona GOP, my mom! A few days after a domestic terrorist attack led by manic supporters of Trump. https://t.co/Gmoyq8DeSX
– Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) January 9, 2021
Newsweek contacted the Arizona Republican Party for comment.
According to Azcentral.com, many of the county’s voting participants did not wear masks or practice social detachment during the meeting held at Dream City Church in Glendale. The president acknowledged Biden’s victory for the first time on Thursday, however, some speakers at the meeting falsely claimed that Trump had won and will remain in power.
Cindy McCain officially endorsed Biden in September, less than two months before the 2020 presidential election. She also appeared in campaign ads for the Democrat. At the time, she explained that she had crossed the party line because she was “deeply concerned” about the current state of affairs.
“Really what led me to this decision was like many other people in the country, I have been watching what is going on and I am deeply concerned,” Cindy McCain told NBC Today host Savannah Guthrie. “Joe Biden represents to me the kind of values, integrity and courage that we want in the president, and someone that I think would protect me as a citizen who lives and someone who lives in a neighborhood and has a family and everything else that people do. “
Following the news of the Maricopa County Republican Party vote, Cindy McCain tweeted, “I am a proud Republican and will continue to support candidates who put the country on top of the party and defend the rule of law.”
Meghan McCain has clashed with the Arizona Republican Party on several occasions in the past few months. Last week, she told the party’s official Twitter account to “go to hell” in reaction to a derogatory tweet about her father.
“When the sun goes down in 2020, remember that we will never go back to the party [Mitt] Romney, [Jeff] Flake, and [John] McCain, “wrote the Twitter account of the Arizona Republican Party on New Year’s Eve.” The Republican Party is now, and always will be, a party for the man and woman who work! God bless.”
“Honestly, whoever is managing this Twitter account can go to hell,” she tweeted in response.
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