Meghan McCain hails father with tears on return to ‘The View’

Megan McCain hailed her father in a teary monologue during her return to “The View” on Monday. 

McCain left the show for a brief hiatus after her father, former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), died on Aug. 25. 

{mosads}She described driving across the country after learning about his death. The senator died after a yearlong struggle with an aggressive form of brain cancer.

“From the very moment I left, there were people in the country, all races, all ages, all creeds, out there with American flags, waving, saluting, praying,” McCain said through tears. “Everyone. He would have loved it.”

She said she believes that the values her father “espoused through his career are the ideals of America.” 

“I think there was a lot of talk of what died with him and I am here today to tell you, it didn’t,” she said. “It is a lie. I need us to remember that.” 

John McCain was an outspoken critic of President Trump, whom he denounced for espousing hateful and divisive ideals. 

McCain during her eulogy for her father swiped at Trump’s “cheap rhetoric.” 

“We can never surrender to what is happening in the country right now,” McCain said on “The View.” 

“I understand how divided and how scared a lot of people are, and it looks like the fabric of democracy is fraying,” she said. “We do not surrender. I’m not surrendering, you don’t do it either. So you have to join me in not surrendering … because I’m still here fighting and I want all of you to fight with me.” 

She then thanked former Vice President Joe Biden and former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) for helping her get through the grieving process.

“God is real; I wouldn’t be here without my faith, but I also wouldn’t be here without Joe Biden and Joe Lieberman,” she said. “Those two men have carried me through this experience and I just want to thank them for being uncles to me.” 

She called them “the most wonderful men.”

McCain, Biden and Lieberman were so close that they were often referred to as the “Three Amigos.” 

McCain’s co-hosts asked her to discuss the eulogy she gave during her father’s funeral, which many praised as a testament to the similarities between her and her father. 

“He planned everything, down to my eulogy,” McCain said. “I was the only woman to eulogize him.” 

She said John McCain raised her to be “tough” so she would survive a time as difficult as the one she is experiencing. 

“He made me tough so I would survive this,” she said, urging viewers to “raise strong women.”

“Really it is the only thing that is keeping me right now is how tough he made me and how he did that,” she said.