Meghan McCain eviscerates Kari Lake over attacks on father: ‘NO PEACE, B****!’

Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Arizona Republican senator John McCain, has eviscerated Kari Lake online – after the Senate Republican candidate criticised her father then tried unsuccessfully to walk it back.

“NO PEACE, B****!” Ms McCain fired at Ms Lake amid the highly public spat on X.

The feud began on Monday when Ms Lake appeared on Outspoken with Bruce and Gaydos on the Phoenix radio station KTAR News 92.3 FM.

During her appearance on the airwaves, she was asked about a campaign rally in 2022 at which she had said: “We don’t have any McCain Republicans in here, do we? Get the hell out!”

At around the same time, Ms Lake also told Real America’s Voice that McCain “ran Arizona with an iron fist” during his lifetime. She had also claimed that “John McCain may be dead, but he’s reaching up from the grave trying to keep power in Arizona,” characterising the Vietnam War hero as a power-mad control freak.

“Rarely did he do anything good for the people,” she added.

An avid supporter of Donald Trump – who himself feuded bitterly with McCain before the senator died from brain cancer in August 2018 – Ms Lake appears to have since realised her divisive comments could cost her at the ballot box and so in Monday’s radio interview she tried to claim that she had only been joking.

“It was said in jest. And I think that if John McCain, who had a great sense of humour, would have heard it, he would have laughed,” she said.

“I want everyone’s vote, whether you are a McCain… if you call yourself a McCain Republican, if you call yourself a middle-of-the-road Republican, a Trump Republican, an America First Republican, I want your vote and guess what? I want independents’ votes as well and I want disaffected Democrats – and there’s a