Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), said she will not endorse Vice President Harris or former President Trump in November's presidential election.
Her comments came just hours after her brother, Jimmy McCain, voiced his support for Harris.
“I greatly respect the diverse political opinions of all my family members and love them all very much,” McCain said. Written on Tuesday “However, I am a proud Republican and hopeful for a brighter future. (Will not be voting for Harris or Trump. Hope this makes things clear),” she posted on social media platform X.
She did not say who else, if anyone, she would support for the White House.
McCain was asked to endorse Harris' candidacy last month. said“Stop trying to make me a progressive.”
“This is a fever dream,” she added. “I'm a lifelong, ancestral conservative.”
McCain, 39, has frequently criticized Trump, who repeatedly attacked her father while he was alive.
In 2015, President Trump came under heavy criticism for saying the senator was not a war hero because he had been taken prisoner of war during the Vietnam War for more than five years. The senator, who died in 2018, was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War for more than five years.
Sen. Jimmy McCain told CNN on Tuesday that he changed his voter registration from Independent to Democrat a few weeks ago and plans to cast his vote for vice president in the fall. The late senator's son said he will be “involved in every way I can” to help elect Harris.
McCain's 36-year-old brother, who served in the military for 17 years and now works as an intelligence officer, also spoke out about Trump's recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery, calling the former president's actions a “violation.”
“I'm just astonished,” he told CNN about the reported incident. “The men and women lying there have no choice but to star in a political ad.”
“I think anybody who has spent any significant amount of time in uniform inherently understands that it's not about you, it's about people who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the name of their country,” Sen. Jimmy McCain added.
President Trump visited the cemetery last week to mark the third anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, accompanied by family members of 13 U.S. soldiers killed in the 2021 Kabul airport attack.
The former president said he had been asked by his family to visit and take the photograph after he was criticised for using the cemetery as a backdrop for election campaigns.
Clashes also reportedly broke out when cemetery officials tried to stop the Trump campaign team from taking photos and videos of a solemn area of the cemetery dedicated to those who fought in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Federal law prohibits political or election-related activists at the cemetery, and the Army said last week that its personnel were swept away by the Trump campaign when they tried to enforce rules banning political activity on the cemetery grounds.
The Republican candidate and his team have refuted the allegations, calling them a “fabricated story.”
