Meghan Marguerite McCain was born on 23 October 1984, in Phoenix, Arizona USA, and is an author, columnist and blogger, best known as a former Fox News contributor and host. She is the daughter of US Senator and former Republican presidential candidate John McCain, and Cindy Hensley McCain. All of her efforts have helped put her net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Meghan McCain? As of late-2017, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $4 million, mostly earned through success in journalism. She also became the co-host of several television shows, including “Outnumbered” and “The View”, and now continuing her career as a political analyst, so it is expected that her wealth will also continue to increase.
Meghan Mccain Net Worth $4 million
Meghan attended Xavier College Preparatory, and after matriculating went to Columbia University where she studied art history and intended to be a music journalist at first. She did her internship at “Newsweek” and “Saturday Night Live”.
After graduating, McCain went through most of her early career as a freelance. In 2008, she changed her party registration to Republican, and would go on to support numerous stances of her father. She published a book in the same year entitled “My Dad, John McCain” and helped him through his unsuccessful presidential election bid. The following year, she began writing for “The Daily Beast”, meantime engaging in a feud with radio talk show host Laura Ingraham in which they exchanged words through various media. She then signed a six figure book deal with Hyperion, which increased her net worth significantly. She was also a featured personality on television, appearing in “Larry King Live”, “The Colbert Report” and “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”, before she became a guest co-host of the talk show “The View”.
In 2010, Meghan published the campaign memoir entitled “Dirty Sexy Politics”, which met some negative reviews though she went on tour to promote it; she also has critics among various blogs.
The following year, she became an analyst on MSNBC and would then collaborate with Michael Ian Black in the book “America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom”. In 2013, she started a road-based talk show entitled “Take Part Live” but it was cancelled the following year. She then became a “Fox News” contributor in 2015, and also became a regular co-host of the talk show “Outnumbered” and would stay there until 2017. She also did co-host work in “The View”, and now serves as a political analyst for “ABC News”, plus contributes to “Good Morning America”. All of these opportunities raised her net worth even further.
For her personal life, it is known that McCain married writer and commentator Ben Domenech in 2017. She has championed for gay rights, supporting same sex marriage and gay adoption. She is also in favor of birth control and sex education.
She has described herself as a Republican who is liberal on social issues. She supports most of her father’s stances with regard to topics such as stem cell research, global warming and the invasion of Iraq.
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