Meghan McCain says she’s leaving ‘The View.’
After a sometimes stormy four-year run, the show’s conservative voice announces her departure.
Meghan McCain will leave “The View” at the end of July, the co-host said on Thursday at the beginning of the popular daytime show.
“This was not an easy decision,” she said of her departure, noting that the coronavirus pandemic had changed her priorities.
Ms. McCain, the show’s sole conservative voice, said she had discovered she was pregnant with her daughter as the country was going into lockdown last year and quickly left New York, where the show is taped, for Washington.
“I just have this really wonderful life here that, ultimately, I felt like I didn’t want to leave,” she said of Washington.
The daughter of John McCain, the longtime Republican senator who died in 2018, and Cindy McCain, Ms. McCain called her nearly four years on the show “one of the hands-down greatest, most exhilarating, wonderful privileges of my entire life.”
Her tenure on “The View,” a production of ABC News started by the television journalist Barbara Walters, included a number of contentious exchanges with the show’s liberal co-hosts, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin (Sara Haines, an ABC News correspondent, rounded out the hosting duties). The women acknowledged the tension on Thursday’s episode, with Ms. Behar calling Ms. McCain a “formidable opponent” and “no snowflake.”
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