约翰·麦凯恩的女儿梅根·麦凯恩拒绝了卡莉·莱克周三提出的一对一会面的提议她之前发表的贬低性言论关于这位已故参议员在2022年竞选州长失败期间的情况是“开玩笑说的”。
莱克是前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)的公开盟友，他与约翰·麦凯恩(John McCain)明显不和。莱克在赢得2022年亚利桑那州州长共和党提名后表示，她“在麦凯恩机器的心脏插了一根木桩”，这是指该家族在该州的根基。
但是现在她代表亚利桑那州参加美国参议院的竞选莱克的语气和策略正在转变，她建议的这种转变有利于把事情做好。
她周三在给梅根·麦凯恩(Meghan McCain)的一篇225字的公开帖子中写道:“我最想做的事情就是请你喝杯啤酒、喝杯咖啡或吃顿午餐，向你请教我们如何才能共同努力巩固我们的国家。”“我的团队正在给你发送我的联系信息——如果你愿意见面，这对我意义重大。”
莱克的上诉是在她告诉亚利桑那州的KTAR周一，她过去对约翰·麦凯恩的评论，比如她告诉麦凯恩的支持者“滚出”2021年12月的一场活动，只是一个玩笑。
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莱克对主持人巴里·马克森和布鲁斯·圣·詹姆斯说:“我想，如果幽默感很强的约翰·麦凯恩听到了这句话，他一定会哈哈大笑。”
她还表示，共和党人“需要脸皮厚一点，因为我们现在正在经历一些艰难的事情，我们需要能够开个玩笑，”然后主持人要求她本着这种精神在x上解除封锁。
美国广播公司《观点》的前联合主持人梅根·麦凯恩拒绝了莱克的回答。
“卡莉·莱克试图收回她对我父亲的持续攻击(麦凯恩周二在社交媒体上发文写道:“在告诉他的忠实支持者‘滚出去’后，他和他的家人都死了我猜她意识到没有我们她不能成为参议员。"
“我们看到了你的真实面目——并对此感到厌恶。”她补充道。
莱克的长篇帖子反过来试图吸引梅根·麦凯恩，指出他们都是母亲，都因癌症失去了父亲。
“我们拯救亚利桑那州的运动&美国在发展，像我们这样的熊妈妈走在前列——所有的妈妈都想做同样的事情:给我们的孩子留下一个比现在更好的美国。就这么简单，”她写道。
“我想让参议员麦凯恩和拉里·莱克感到骄傲，”她继续说道——随后梅根·麦凯恩直言不讳地拒绝了她的会面邀请。
“不得安宁，B -!”她在一篇由民主党全国委员会主席海梅·哈里森分享的帖子中写道。
随后，梅根·麦凯恩也发文称:“我为我的家人喷火，永远不会原谅那些诋毁我们的人——尤其是我去世的父亲。从来没有。”
采访莱克的KTAR主持人之一马克森后来质疑为什么这位可能的共和党参议员候选人“不承认她错了并道歉”。
马克森在X(原名Twitter)上的一篇帖子中写道:“卡莉是麦卡恩一家的朋友，也是这个家庭的密友，但她一次又一次地攻击约翰·麦凯恩没有任何问题，她甚至在她的新书中攻击了辛迪·麦凯恩。”
安湖采访2022年7月，指控约翰·麦凯恩的遗孀辛迪·麦凯恩策划了一项旨在推动“全球主义”议程的计划。
“这是共和党的辛迪·麦凯恩分部。他们不是共和党人。...我认为他们想要结束美国，”莱克当时说。
她与梅根·麦凯恩(Meghan McCain)的新联系似乎是她试图修复与所谓的“建制派共和党人”关系的更大趋势的一部分。她在失败的州长竞选中受到了批评。
周二在KTAR上被问及她是否赢回了那些共和党人时，莱克说她的谈话“会让你震惊。”
Meghan McCain rejects Kari Lake's appeal to 'work together' after disparaging her family
John McCain's daughter Meghan McCain rejected Kari Lake's offer on Wednesday to meet one-on-one after Lake claimedthat disparaging comments she previously madeabout the late senator during her failed gubernatorial run in 2022 were "said in jest."
Lake, a former TV reporter-turned-vocal ally of former President Donald Trump, who notably feuded with John McCain, said after winning the Republican nomination to be Arizona's governor in 2022 that she "drove a stake through the heart of the McCain machine," referring to the family's roots in the state.
But now, as shecampaigns to represent Arizona in the U.S. Senate, Lake's tone and strategy are shifting, a change she has suggested is in the interest of getting things done.
"I'd love nothing more than to buy you a beer, a coffee or lunch and pick your brain about how we can work together to strengthen our state," she wrote Wednesday in a 225-word public post to Meghan McCain. "My team is sending you my contact info -- if you're willing to meet, it would mean a lot to me."
Lake's appeal comes after she toldArizona's KTARon Monday that her past comments about John McCain, such as her telling McCain supporters to "get the hell out" of an event in December 2021, were meant as a joke.
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"I think that if John McCain, who had a great sense of humor, would have heard it, he would have laughed," Lake told hosts Barry Markson and Bruce St. James.
She also said Republicans "need to get a little bit thicker skin because we're going through some tough stuff right now and we need to be able to take a joke," before the hosts asked her -- in that spirit -- to unblock them on X.
Meghan McCain, a former co-host of ABC's "The View," rejected Lake's answer.
"Kari Lake is trying to walk back her continued attacks on my Dad (& family) and all of his loyal supporters after telling them to 'get the hell out,'" McCain wrote in a social media post on Tuesday. "Guess she realized she can't become a Senator without us."
"We see you for who you are - and are repulsed by it," she added.
Lake's lengthy post, in turn, sought to appeal to Meghan McCain by noting they're both mothers and both lost their fathers to cancer.
"Our movement to save Arizona& America is growing, and it’s Mama Bears like us who are leading the charge — ALL Moms want the same thing: to leave our children a better America than the one we had. It’s as simple as that," she wrote.
"I want to make Senator McCain and Larry Lake proud," she continued -- before Meghan McCain bluntly dismissed her offer to meet.
"NO PEACE, B----!" she wrote, in a post that was shared by Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison.
Later, Meghan McCain also posted: "I breathe fire for my family and never forgive those who have trashed any of us - particularly my Dad in death. Never."
Markson, one of the KTAR hosts who interviewed Lake, questioned afterward why the likely Republican nominee for Senate "won't just admit she was wrong and apologize."
"Kari was a friend of the McCains, a close friend of the family, yet she had no problem attacking John McCain over and over, and she even attacked Cindy McCain in her recent book," Markson wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Lake, in aninterviewin July 2022, accused John McCain's widow, Cindy McCain, of running a scheme to promote a "globalist" agenda.
"This is the Cindy McCain branch of the Republican Party. They're not Republicans. ... I think they want an end to America," Lake said at the time.
Her new outreach to Meghan McCain appears to be part of a larger trend of her attempting to mend relationships with so-called "establishment Republicans" she torched during her unsuccessful gubernatorial run.
Asked Tuesday on KTAR if she'd won back over any of those Republicans, Lake said she's having conversations "that would shock you."
