Meghan McCain

Meghan McCain is the daughter of the late Senator John McCain and has been a media personality and political commentator whose most visible platform was as co-host of "The View" on ABC from 2017 to 2021. Born October 23, 1984, in Phoenix, Arizona, she graduated from Columbia University in 2007 and has worked in television, print journalism, and podcasting. Her father, Senator John McCain, was one of the Senate's most consistent and passionate pro-Israel voices across his decades of service — a record she has carried into her own public identity with particular intensity since his death in 2018.

McCain has been among the most vocal pro-Israel voices in mainstream media, particularly on "The View" — a program whose audience is predominantly liberal-leaning and which gave her a platform to make the pro-Israel case to demographics that do not typically encounter it from conservative media sources. Her willingness to confront co-hosts and guests over what she viewed as anti-Israel bias, her emotional defenses of Israel's right to exist and defend itself, and her explicit identification with her father's legacy on this issue gave her pro-Israel advocacy an affective intensity that cut through the format's entertainment dynamics. Since leaving "The View," she has continued her commentary through podcast and media appearances.

Her significance on the Iron 100 reflects the function she served on mainstream broadcast television: a Republican woman making the pro-Israel case to a primarily Democratic female audience, week after week, in the format that reaches the largest cross-partisan audience in American daytime television. At Rank 78, McCain represents a certain kind of media courage — the willingness to hold a position before an audience predisposed to reject it, rooted in a family legacy that gave her that position as a birthright from one of the great pro-Israel senators in American history.