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Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Hantavirus Fears And The Growing Rubio 2028 Conversation

Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Citizen Cain Productions

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

3.8824 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Meghan McCain and Miranda Wilkins break down the terrifying possible hantavirus outbreak aboard a stranded cruise ship and why the story feels straight out of a horror movie. Plus, concern grows after passengers reportedly die and countries refuse to let the ship dock. The episode also dives into Marco Rubio’s viral White House briefing room moment and why speculation about 2028 is heating up fast. Meghan and Miranda debate whether Rubio or JD Vance has the stronger path forward inside the Republican Party. Then, entrepreneur and Pizza Girl founder Caroline D’Amore joins the show to talk about becoming politically independent after October 7th, raising kids in Los Angeles, RFK Jr., Hollywood’s political climate, and why so many Californians are frustrated with local leadership. Also in this episode: • Katie Porter’s latest campaign cringe • Obama marriage rumors and political media backlash • Why Qatar-funded influencer culture keeps growing online • Spencer Pratt’s surprising mayoral momentum in Los Angeles • The state of California politics heading into 2026 midterms Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Megan McCain has entered the chat. The Welcome to Citizen McCain Wednesday, May 6th.

0:34.8

I'm so happy to have you guys here.

0:36.6

Thank you so much for subscribing to our

0:38.3

channel. We're definitely getting some great new subscribers, but if you have it, please do YouTube.com

0:43.8

slash at Citizen McCain. And if you want to join our Zoom, you can register to do that at

0:49.3

2a.tv slash Megan. And we just overall want to thank you. We've been really popping off on our socials lately.

0:56.3

It's good to be back.

0:57.4

It's good to feel the love back.

0:59.3

I'm really like we're really, I'm enjoying being back.

1:02.4

Thank you so much for the support.

1:03.7

We're as usual, the little engine that could shug it along.

1:07.1

We have a lot to get into today.

1:08.7

We have Caroline Damore coming on, who is a former reality TV star DJ all around cool girl in L.A. who also runs the amazing pizza girl company. She has a line of pizza ovens and pizza restaurants in California. We're going to talk all things politics, her journey from a Democrat to being an

1:27.7

independent, a little bit about the mayor and governor's race. And just, you know, life in general.

1:32.4

A tiny little footnote about Caroline is that she and I were pregnant at the same time and gave

1:37.9

birth like within a week of each other. So so sweet, right? Thank you. And we were DMing each other

1:43.3

throughout all of it. And I remember right before she gave birth, I was like, how is it? How is it lady? And she's like, you'll, it's not, you'll get through. Like I was like, because, you know, getting birth is horrible. It's a lot. It's not my favorite thing. We have a lot to get into, Miranda.

2:01.3

I don't even know where to start because there's so much to get into, but I'm going to get into just honestly, the way we produce this show and we put the show together is always what is interesting us, scaring us and exciting us the most. And honestly, the story is scaring the living shit out of me. I know where you're going. Yep. You know where I'm going. Ashley knows where I'm because we're talking about it before the show came on.

2:18.7

So, oh, first and foremost, please, if there are any doctors, scientists or anyone who works any kind of like viral space, like, like virologists, like viruses, please join our chat right now and come on the show right this second. Let Ashley know. Get in our DMs immediately. And anyone on the Zoom throughout the show or anyone on social media watching on YouTube, I'm

2:37.6

serious.

2:38.3

If you are, because we didn't have enough time to get, because this story has escalated since,

2:42.2

since last night, since we came on the show.

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