Meghan McCain officially announced on Thursday that she is walking away from her role as the token conservative on ABC News’ «The View.»
«I’m just …
Meghan McCain officially announced on Thursday that she is walking away from her role as the token conservative on ABC News’ «The View.» «I’m just going to rip the Band-Aid off, I am here to tell all of you, my wonderful co-hosts and the viewers at home that this is going to be my last season here at ‘The View,’» McCain said to open the show. «I will be here through the end of July to finish up the season with all of you, which I am grateful for. This was not an easy decision, it took a lot of thought and counsel and prayer and talking to my family and close friends, and, you know, look, COVID has changed the world for all of us and it changed the way I am looking at life, the way I am living my life, what I want my life to look like, and when I said ‘goodbye’ to all of you in the studio, over a year and a half ago, I had just found out I was pregnant. I left the city very quickly because my OGBYN wanted me to leave because he wasn’t sure how COVID could possibly impact pregnant women,» McCain continued. McCain said she had built an incredible life with her husband Ben Domenech and their daughter Liberty in the Washington, D.C. area and didn’t want to leave. «On a professional note, this show is one of, hands down, the most greatest, exhilarating, wonderful privileges of my entire life and I have had so many amazing experiences in my life,» she said. McCain then praised her co-hosts as «the most talented women on all of television, hands down» and recounted her late father Sen. John McCain talked her into taking the gig in the first place. «He said that I could never give up an opportunity to work on such an iconic show and to work with Whoopi Goldberg,» she said. «He was right.» McCain then touted the success of her time on the show, ranging from awards to being parodied on «Saturday Night live.» «It is not easy to leave but I feel this is just the right decision for me at this moment and I just want to thank all of you, Whoopi, Joy, Sunny, Sarah, I also want to think Abby Huntsman who was a good friend of mine, continues to be a good friend of mine, and has really helped me with this decision,» McCain said before going on to thank various producers, staffers and ABC executives.
