Amy Klobuchar recalled John McCain's searing response to Trump's inauguration. Meghan McCain wasn't

Amy Klobuchar recalled John McCain’s searing response to Trump’s inauguration. Meghan McCain wasn’t having it.

In 2008, Sen. John McCain was the Republican presidential nominee. But for 2020 contenders, his name is apparently off limits, at least as far as his family is concerned. One such candidate, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), was publicly scolded by the late Arizona Republican’s daughter on Monday after she shared an anecdote about how McCain had reportedly rattled off the names of dictators during President Trump’s inauguration.

“On behalf of the entire McCain family — @amyklobuchar please be respectful to all of us and leave my father’s legacy and memory out of presidential politics,” tweeted Meghan McCain, one of the late senator’s seven children and a co-host of ABC’s “The View.”

Speaking before an audience of roughly 200 people during a Saturday campaign stop in Des Moines, Klobuchar described Trump’s inauguration as “dark” and recalled how she sat on the stage between John McCain and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that day while Trump delivered a speech about rampant crime, rusted-out factories and “American carnage.” The fiery populist rhetoric apparently reminded McCain of various authoritarian figures from throughout history. “John McCain kept reciting to me names of dictators during that speech because he knew more than any of us what we were facing as a nation. He understood it,” Klobuchar said on Saturday, according to NBC News. “He knew because he knew this man more than any of us did.”

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Klobuchar, who has described McCain as a mentor and visited him at his ranch in Arizona while he was fighting cancer, has frequently spoken out against such attacks. A spokesman told The Washington Post that she has great respect for McCain’s family but did not indicate whether that meant Klobuchar would avoid using the anecdote in future.

“Senator Klobuchar had a longtime friendship with Senator McCain, she has defended him against President Trump’s attacks in the past, and she has deep respect for his family,” said Tim Hogan, the campaign’s communications director. “While she was simply sharing a memory, she continues to believe that the best stories about Senator McCain are not about the views he had about President Trump: They are about McCain’s own valor and heroism.”

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