Former “The View” host Meghan McCain bashed fellow Arizona Republican Kari Lake after the “dangerous” election-denying Senate candidate told supporters to take up arms for the upcoming election.
“This is so irresponsible and dangerous of Kari Lake to say,” McCain posted on social media. “But what else is new.”
Lake — who lost a gubernatorial election she falsely claimed was rigged and continues pushing former president Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential vote — made her incendiary remarks during a Mohave County, Ariz., campaign stop on Sunday.
“What do we want to strap on?” Lake joked with followers. “We’re going to strap on our seat belt. We’re going to put on our helmet — or your Kari Lake ball cap. We are going to put on the armor of God. And maybe strap on a Glock on the side of us just in case.”
Lake then suggested several other places where a gun can be worn as fans cheered.
McCain, whose father John McCain represented Arizona in the U.S. Senate for more than 30 years, was less amused.
“She tries [to] cosplay as some badass — but she’s just an ex-Obama supporter with Vaseline slathered all over her camera doing a sh—y off the strip lounge singer imitation of Kellyann[e] Conway.”
McCain’s “Vaseline” reference eluded to Lake, 54, routinely appearing in seemingly diffused videos that soften her look. She supported former President Barack Obama in his 2008 race against McCain’s dad. And Kellyanne Conway is a Trump surrogate who infamously popularized the term “alternative facts.”
Lake is known to trade in inflammatory rhetoric and closely associates herself with firearms.There have been rumbling the far-right wing firebrand could be Trump’s running mate.
“People would like you more if you didn’t hold back so much,” one McCain supporter joked on X following the initial tweet.
McCain — who became adept at arguing while serving as the resident conservative on ABC talk show “The View” from nearly four years — responded with three laughing face emojis.
