'No peace': Meghan McCain slaps back at Kari Lake for slamming her late senator dad

Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake is scrambling to walk back her past commentary insulting former Sen. John McCain, saying in a new radio interview that her past attacks on him were just a joke.

“It was said in jest. And I think that if John McCain, who had a great sense of humor, would have heard it, he would have laughed,” she said on KTAR. “I want everyone’s vote, whether you are a McCain … if you call yourself a McCain Republican, if you call yourself a middle-of-the-road Republican, a Trump Republican, an America First Republican, I want your vote.”

But the former senator's daughter, Meghan McCain, is not impressed, reported the Daily Beast.

"Kari Lake is trying to walk back her continued attacks on my Dad (& family) and all of his loyal supporters ... Guess she realized she can’t become a Senator without us," she posted on X. "No peace, b----. We see you for who you are - and are repulsed by it."

During her unsuccessful run for governor in 2022, Lake — a former local news anchor who ran as a MAGA candidate — echoed Trump's repeated claims that McCain was a loser — and even said anyone who supported him should "get the hell out" of the Republican Party. Nothing at the time indicated she was joking.

Before passing away from brain cancer, McCain had a deep animosity for Trump, stemming at least as far back as the former president disparaging his time being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. McCain also cast the deciding vote to block Trump's Obamacare repeal plan in the Senate, which the former president never got over.

Lake has never conceded her election loss in the 2022 governor's race, although in the same KTAR interview, she evaded questions about how she believed the election was stolen or who was responsible.