‘Do It. She’s Trash’: Meghan McCain’s Threat to Stop Kamala Harris’ Campaign from Using Her Father’s Name Backfires When John McCain’s Biographer Raises Stakes with Ultimatum of His Own

He remains the Democrats’ favorite senator, six years after his death from brain cancer. In an era of ever-widening division, John McCain often pushed for consensus, memorably saving the Affordable Care Act with one emphatic thumb down. McCain’s legacy is the subject of a developing political scrum between his outspoken daughter, former “The View” co-host Meghan McCain, and an author who once wrote an unflattering biography of the late senator. Meghan McCain is backed against a wall after her father’s biographer issues scathing ultimatum to reveal family secrets. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/WireImage) It all started with seemingly innocuous comments by Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Appearing at a campaign stop last week in Arizona, Harris praised her former colleague’s courage in casting a vote that thwarted the Republicans’ effort to overturn Obamacare, calling him a “great American and a war hero.” It was this personal anecdote shared by Harris that seemed to get under McCain’s skin. “I step onto the floor of the well of the Senate later that day — we had votes — and I passed by John McCain, and he looks at me, and he says, ‘Kid, come over here. You’re going to make a great senator,’”...