Meghan McCain Engaged to Conservative Writer

The View co-host Meghan McCain is engaged to The Federalist writer Ben Domenech, Page Six reports. 

McCain, the daughter of Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, kept her relationship with Domenech, a co-founder of RedState, private. She never mentioned him by name despite speaking of a "boyfriend" on various social media posts since early last year.

US Weekly issued the initial report of their engagement on Wednesday, quoting an inside source as saying, "Meghan and her fiancée are well into wedding planning."

While celebrating her birthday on "The View," McCain, a conservative who supported independent candidate Evan McMullin, described her then-boyfriend: "This one works in politics and has for a long time so he wasn't as intimidated and he actually met my dad at my brother's wedding for the first time and ended up talking about healthcare or something very wonky. He's so conservative. He's funny in his own way."

She added that "he's so conservative … I ultimately seem to have landed with the most conservative guy in the history of the world."

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