Meghan McCain presses Harris to address policy: Insults ‘not going to cut it’

Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), is putting pressure on Vice President Harris — the presumptive Democratic nominee for president — to address policy issues such as immigration and inflation, instead of leaning on personal attacks

“No matter how much momentum and media love Vice President Harris is getting right now — I don’t know her excuses for our s— inflation and open borders, where literal terrorists are crossing,” she wrote Saturday in a post on social media platform X.

In a separate post, she added, “and some ephemeral answer about hope, change and JD Vance being weird is really not going to cut it.”

Over the past week, Democrats have leaned on attacking Republicans for being “weird,” using the term in everything from stump speeches to interviews.

While the relatively young campaign has launched attacks against former President Trump and Vance — his running mate for 2024 — the team has yet to build out a complete policy agenda. The campaign’s website has not filled out its “issues” page yet, leaving the vice president’s future agenda unclear.

Harris has, however, moved to distance herself from policy positions she outlined in the 2020 presidential primary. For instance, the vice president no longer supports fracking, “Medicare for All,” or a gun buyback program run by the federal government — all positions she took in previous campaigns.

Allies of the campaign have also called for the vice president to drop her “prosecutor vs. criminal” line, in which she leverages her background as a career prosecutor against Trump’s legal battles.

In a letter asking her to disavow the attack, supporters urged her to take on mass incarceration as a topline issue, mentioning her willingness to attend a criminal justice reform presidential town hall held by the Marshall project in 2019.

As Harris crafts her pitch to appeal to a broad swath of voters, Republicans have settled on the economy and immigration as the top issues for their appeal to the American public. 

“These are #1 issues for voters and she has to address how she will fix both,” McCain wrote Saturday.