Meghan McCain Leaving ‘The View’: ‘This Was Not an Easy Decision’ (VIDEO)

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UPDATE (11:30 a.m. ET):

Meghan McCain confirmed she will be leaving The View during the Thursday, July 1 episode of the ABC talk show.

“This was not an easy decision,” the co-host said. “I’m just eternally grateful to have had this opportunity here so, seriously, thank you from the absolute bottom of my heart.”

Of her co-hosts, McCain added, “It is a privilege to work alongside such strong, brilliant, intelligent, incredible broadcasters like the four of you. You are the most talented women on all of television hands down and it has been so incredible.”

McCain will conclude her nearly four-year run on the series at the end of July, ahead of the show’s 25th season this fall.

Original Story (9:30 a.m. ET):

Meghan McCain is set to step down from ABC’s The View, according to a report by the Daily Mail.

The conservative columnist and outspoken TV personality, who has served on the daytime talk show for four seasons, is expected to announce her resignation on Thursday’s show. McCain’s co-hosts, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro, are not yet aware of the resignation, a Disney source told the Daily Mail.

“We have tried to keep her, but she is adamant that now is the right time for her to leave,” the source said. “She will finish at the end of July 2021.”

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McCain, who has two years left on her contract, joined The View in October 2017. Prior to that, the daughter of the late Senator John McCain and businesswoman Cindy McCain had been a writer for The Daily Beast before joining MSNBC as an analyst and later co-hosting the afternoon talk program Outnumbered on the Fox News Channel.

She is also a New York Times best-selling author, having published three books, including My Dad, John McCain in 2008, Dirty Sexy Politics in 2012, and America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom with comedian Michael Ian Black in 2012.

On Wednesday’s episode of The View, McCain called out Vogue magazine for not putting Melania Trump on its cover. “I was not a fan, obviously, of the Trump family and I was not a fan of Melania Trump’s. But no one can negate the fact that she was a fashionable first lady,” McCain argued. “So if your magazine is just about fashion, you should have put her on the cover.”

ABC and McCain have yet to comment on the report.

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    wolverine1070

    Probably time they part ways. Meghan may have gotten all the mileage she is going to get from her fathers career. Not sure the future holds much for her in media.

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    RedBulb

    I’m doing the HAPPY DANCE! Finally, enough of her childish, rude behavior..

    She can take her entitlement self somewhere else!

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    GreenBowtie

    Yay!!

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    PurpleGlasses

    HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN. She was rude, obnoxious and a loud mouthed moron! Keep Ana full time or bring back Abby Huntsman. Hearing different points of view is one thing but being screamed at, interrupted and dismissed by her is childish behavior has no place on The View (or anywhere).

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      RedBowtie

      MEGHAN was a "rude, obnoxious, loud-mouthed moron? You just described the REST of those left-wing "woke", cancel-culture harpies to a "T"...

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    CyanPin

    I'm really sorry to see her go. I like to hear different points of view, even if I violently disagree, so I appreciate hearing her & Ana.

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    CyanCoathanger

    Hooooorrrrraaaaaay!!! This made my day in so many ways!!! Three and a half minutes to say she’s leaving!!!! Me me me, I I I , is leaving!! Thank God for small miracles! So long Meghan!!!

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    Mulebarn

    End of July? Really? That just made my day! Will be looking forward to August and a return to watching the View!

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    GreenBulb

    Not sorry to see Megan leave, she's a little too sour for me. I think she made the other ladies uncomfortable most times. I quit recording the show because of her, I'm looking forward to the new addition so I can watch The View soon! The show is most fabulous!

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    txcharley

    She, like her late father, was never a conservative, but was probably the closest the view would ever allow. Her "confrontations" with joy and whoopie were laughable, as she never quite got the point that TRUE Conservatives were trying to make.

    Don't let the door hit you.............I am still not watching

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    OliveBeer

    Sorry to see her go.

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    Antonio Montealegre

    I'm indifferent...

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    GreenQuill

    Yay! Guess 2021 is going to be an even greater year! Got rid of Trump & his mouth - and now don't have to listen to Megan on The View (A GREAT SHOW)..now even more people will be smiling!

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