President Trump’s Senior Advisor for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Kari Lake, is known for continuing to contest the results of the two Arizona elections she lost to Democrats: the 2022 gubernatorial election (to Governor Katie Hobbs) and the 2024 senatorial election (to Sen. Ruben Gallego).
While running for governor, Lake repeatedly disparaged the late Republican Arizona Senator John McCain, telling McCain supporters to “get the hell out” of one of her events and referring to the war hero as a “loser.”
McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain, said at that time: “My father will always be an icon and the people of Arizona deserve someone better than Kari Lake.”
Today, when McCain learned that Lake had reportedly purchased a $60,000 condominium in her native Iowa “as speculation swirls about her future,” she took a swipe at Lake and wrote: “Wanna know who won every election they ever ran for in Arizona and didn’t have to carpetbag and flee to another state because they were so hideously unpopular?”
Wanna know who won every election they ever ran for in Arizona and didn’t have to carpetbag and flee to another state because they were so hideously unpopular? https://t.co/fdu8zvXDUf
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) January 7, 2026
The “Kari Lake War Room” account on X responded to McCain: “Meghan, can you clarify who you’re talking about? Because you can’t be referring to your father, who moved to Arizona from Washington, DC, in 1981 when he was 44 years old and then decided to run for office. Also, ‘never lost an election (in Arizona)’ is a mighty big caveat, considering what happened in 2008.” (Sen. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, was defeated by Barack Obama in 2008, though McCain secured all 10 of Arizona’s electoral votes in that election.)
Note: In Iowa, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst‘s seat is up for grabs in 2026, although President Trump has already endorsed U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson for the job. Primaries will be held on June 2. Many Iowans also suspect Republican Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley will retire soon, though the 92-year-old politician said in August that he’s leaving the door open for another re-election bid in 2028.
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