Meghan McCain and Ben Domenech have been going strong for nearly two decades.
Although it’s unclear when they met, the twosome began dating around 2014 and got engaged in July 2017.
“We’ve been together for years and we have been engaged for a while,” McCain said on The View at the time. “It was a secret. I was hoping to get married and people wouldn’t find out, but people talk sometimes. I love him very much and I’m very happy.”
The couple tied the knot in November 2017. After suffering a miscarriage in 2019, McCain welcomed her and Domenech’s first child, daughter Liberty, in September 2020 followed by daughter Clover in January 2023.
McCain revealed in June 2025 that she and Domenech are expecting their third child.
“I wanted to let you in on something that’s private that I haven’t talked about publicly yet,” she told Usha Vance on an episode of her “Citizen McCain” podcast. “I have two little girls. They are almost 5 and almost 3. And I just am entering my second trimester, I’m pregnant with my third.”
Keep scrolling for a look back at McCain and Domenech’s relationship timeline:
2014
The couple reportedly started dating around 2014.
“When we went out the first time, I was like, ‘This is a totally different vibe and it’s way better,’” McCain shared on The Ben Shapiro Show in October 2019. “I tell women, ‘Conservative men have better family values and they take dating, family and marriage more seriously.’ I think if you’re serious — which I was when I met my husband — about getting married and having kids and wanting to go to the next phase, I just found … finally dating a conservative man was the one. He took it seriously.”
July 2017
A source confirmed to Us Weekly that McCain and Domenech were engaged.
“Meghan and her fiancé are well into wedding planning,” the insider shared.
Later that month, Meghan explained on The View that the couple had been “together for years” and were inspired by her father Senator John McCain’s health struggles. (The late senator died in August 2018 from glioblastoma.)
“Everyone keeps asking me, ‘How did you get engaged?’ And I’m like, ‘Well, we were at Mayo Clinic and my father had his scan,’” she shared at the time. “And we got engaged because we decided to sort of celebrate life and celebrate being alive and all these things. It’s not the most romantic story, but he is my partner.”
Meghan also noted that she was surprised to be wearing a ring because she “never thought” she would get married.
“I want the single girls out there to know, I don’t consider this an achievement, and it’s just part of my life,” she said. “Wait for the men who love strong women. Don’t settle for less. Don’t settle for anything else.”
November 2017
Nearly four months after announcing their engagement, Meghan and Domenech tied the knot in an intimate ceremony at the McCain family lodge in Sedona, Arizona.
“The bride’s father, Senator John McCain, gave her away and they were married by John Dickerson,” a rep for Meghan confirmed to Us at the time. “Following the ceremony, Meghan and Domenech celebrated with dinner and dancing surrounded by their family and close friends.”
July 2019
Meghan revealed that she had suffered a miscarriage in an essay published in The New York Times.
“I look back at those pictures now, and I see a woman hiding her shock and sorrow,” she wrote in reference to the photos that were taken the day she found out she miscarried. “I am posed for the camera, looking stern and strong, representing my fellow conservative women across the country. But inside, I am dying. Inside, my baby is dying. I knew I was pregnant before I formally knew I was pregnant. My body told me in all the ways women are familiar with. It told me in the same ways I was miscarrying.”
After she publicly shared her loss, Meghan thanked everyone for their “beautiful and kind responses” to her essay.
“Ben and I are the luckiest, most incredibly blessed people in the world surrounded by love and support,” she wrote via Instagram.
March 2020
Less than a year after her miscarriage, Meghan shared she was pregnant with the couple’s rainbow baby.
“My husband Ben and I have been blessed to find out I’m pregnant,” she wrote via Instagram. “Although this isn’t how I expected to announce my pregnancy, both we and our families are excited to share the news with you all. I consulted with my doctors and they advised that for the safety of my baby and myself, I should be extra vigilant about limiting the amount of people we come into contact with.”
April 2020
At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Meghan took to social media to share a sweet message for her husband while they were stuck in quarantine.
“If somebody told me the first night we met when we did nothing but laugh and drink whiskey neat until the sun came up that one day you would be taking care of me, keeping me calm, cooking my every craving, rubbing my back, making me turn off cable news when I start to cry because of the intense pain and suffering our country is in, play scrabble and Mario Kart with me anytime I want and doing anything and everything to make this upside down nightmare a comfortable haven while I was pregnant with your baby and quarantined during the apocalypse … I would have thought one of you were smoking something really powerful,” she wrote alongside a selfie of the pair via Instagram.
Meghan continued by noting that “life keeps throwing” them “curveballs,” but they both knew when they met “there was no one else for either of [them] in the world.”
“It was like God finally formally introduced us but we had already known who we were waiting for,” she explained. “Our love has always been easy and wild. I love you and couldn’t have created you in my mind, Ben. There’s no one I would rather be in a foxhole with. But the universe sure does have a f***ed up sense of humor.”
September 2020
Meghan welcomed her and Domenech’s first child, daughter Liberty.
“We are excited to share the happy news that our @MeghanMcCain and her husband Ben Domenech have welcomed their first child, daughter Liberty Sage McCain Domenech!” The View announced via their Instagram page. “Congratulations Meghan and Ben! ❤️.”
September 2022
After Domenech said that President Donald Trump “totally botched” the COVID pandemic on X, one follower decided to attack Meghan and her body, writing, “Megan [sic] must be waving those fat boobs of hers to get your attn … loser.”
Domenech immediately came to the defense of Meghan, writing, “I must inform you it does not make me a loser to have a wife with big tits.”
Meghan then quote-tweeted her husband’s response, adding, “OH MY GOD — BEN 🤦🏼♀️.”
Later that month, Meghan announced she was pregnant with her and Domenech’s second child.
“Ben and I feel so blessed that we will be adding a new member to our family this winter,” she shared with the Daily Mail. “A baby sister for our daughter Liberty! We are more than halfway to meeting our newest daughter and we couldn’t be more excited.”
January 2023
The couple welcomed daughter Clover.
“Ben and I are overjoyed to introduce Liberty to her baby sister and start this new adventure as a family,” Meghan told the Daily Mail. Domenech added, “Meghan’s strength and love for our daughters is boundless. I feel so blessed that her and Clover are both doing well and I cannot wait for our entire family to meet our baby girl.”
June 2025
Meghan revealed on her “Citizen McCain” podcast that she is expecting her third baby, noting she is “very nervous” about expanding her family.
“It’s a boy,” she added. “I’m very nervous about having a boy. And I’m very nervous about having three children. Very.”
January 2026
Meghan gave birth to baby No. 3, son Ransom, on January 2.
“Everyone is happy, healthy and exhausted,” she told People the next day. “We’re absolutely over the moon that our baby boy is here. We’re so grateful to the incredible doctors and medical staff who took such wonderful care of all of us. Liberty and Clover are so excited to have a baby brother. Our family is so blessed.”
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