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Vice President Kamala Harris’s  sales pitch as anything but divisive included spinning a deceased senator’s impression of her that left the late legislator’s daughter promising to “start spilling tea.”

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Bipartisan support for both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris hadn’t so much measured a redrawing of party lines as it stood to reveal the split between outsiders and the establishment. That hadn’t stopped the Democratic Party’s nominee from spinning an anecdote about late Arizona Sen. John McCain (R) to her advantage that left the onetime prisoner of war’s daughter demanding a stop to Harris’ “need to bastardize his memory.”

After the vice president had spoken at a campaign event in Scottsdale, Arizona, columnist and commentator Meghan McCain took to X demanding Democrats quit using her father to their political advantage or she wouldn’t hesitate to share what the U.S. Navy veteran had really thought of his California colleague.

“Now, I know democrats want to reinvent history and turn my Dad into any illusion you guys need him to be depending on the political moment you need to bastardize his memory for…But please don’t make me start sharing what I remember him ACTUALLY saying about Kamala Harris,” she wrote before adding shortly thereafter, “And consider this my final warning shot, I will start spilling tea.”

The message came hours after Harris had appeared on the trail in the Grand Canyon State where she recalled a committee hearing she had been in with Sen. McCain.

“And he’s going after me. He’s going after me. We’re having some conversation. I think it was about one of the nominees. This — this was during President Trump’s years,” she added as though she had served in the Senate more than the one incomplete term she’d had before a failed presidential run and coattails victory into the administration with President Joe Biden. “He’s going after me, and I’m going back after him. I’m going back after him. And that was it. And this is what the public saw.”

“And then 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.’ True story. True story. True story,” claimed Harris, unable to fully contain her cackle.

“That was John McCain. That was John McCain. I was talking about him last night at a rally, right? John McCain, who — you know, we didn’t agree on everything, but, man, I mean, what about an incredible American hero? Again, strength — strength — right?” she said before twisting to an attack on former President Donald Trump. “We know what the former president said about John McCain. I’m not gonna repeat it here — but strength.”

While her brother, U.S. Army National Guard Lt. James “Jimmy” McCain, had been propped up by the media to trash Trump and support Harris amid a hoax about his attendance at the Arlington National Cemetery memorial honoring the 13 service members killed in Afghanistan during the botched withdrawal under the Biden-Harris administration, Meghan McCain had opted against siding with a White House hopeful and said while supporting her brother’s free speech, “Not voting for Harris or Trump, hope that clears thing up.”

Meanwhile, social media users encouraged McCain to put up or shut up if she knew something that could impact the election in the battleground state of Arizona.

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