Meghan McCain and Ben Domenech Welcome Third Child, a Son, Expanding Their Family
Meghan McCain and Ben Domenech have maintained a strong relationship for nearly two decades.
Although the exact timing of their initial meeting remains unclear, the couple began dating around 2014 and became engaged in July 2017.
“We’ve been together for several years and have been engaged for quite some time,” McCain mentioned on The View at the time. “It was a secret. I had hoped to get married and for people to be unaware, but people often talk. I deeply love him and I’m very happy.”
The pair exchanged vows in November 2017. Following a miscarriage in 2019, McCain welcomed her and Domenech’s first child, daughter Liberty, in September 2020 followed by daughter Clover in January 2023.
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McCain disclosed in June 2025 that she and Domenech are anticipating their third child.
“I wanted to share something personal that I haven’t discussed publicly yet,” she told Usha Vance on an episode of her “Citizen McCain” podcast. “I have two young daughters. They are almost 5 and almost 3. And I’m currently in my second trimester, I’m pregnant with my third.”
Continue scrolling for a look back at McCain and Domenech’s relationship timeline:
2014
The couple reportedly commenced dating around 2014.
“When we went out for the first time, I felt like, ‘This is a completely different feeling and it’s much better,’” McCain shared on The Ben Shapiro Show in October 2019. “I advise women, ‘Conservative men possess better family values and they approach dating, family, and marriage with greater seriousness.’ I believe that if you’re serious — which I was when I met my husband — about getting married and starting a family and desiring to move forward, I simply found … finally dating a conservative man was the key. He took it seriously.”
July 2017
A source confirmed to Us Weekly that McCain and Domenech were engaged.
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“Meghan and her fiancé are well into wedding preparations,” the insider revealed.
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 challenges. (The late senator passed away 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 imagined” she would get married.
“I want the single women out there to know, I don’t consider this an accomplishment, and it’s just part of my life,” she said. “Wait for the men who appreciate strong women. Don’t settle for less. Don’t settle for anything else.”
November 2017
Approximately four months after announcing their engagement, Meghan and Domenech tied the knot in an intimate ceremony at the McCain family lodge in Sedona, Arizona.
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“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 experienced a miscarriage in an essay published in The New York Times.
“I look back at those pictures now, and I see a woman concealing 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, appearing stern and strong, representing my fellow conservative women across the country. But inside, I am suffering. Inside, my baby is suffering. I knew I was pregnant before I formally knew I was pregnant. My body signaled it in all the ways women are familiar with. It signaled it in the same ways I was losing the baby.”
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.
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“My husband Ben and I have been blessed to discover I’m pregnant,” she wrote via Instagram. “Although this isn’t how I envisioned announcing 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 cautious about limiting the number of people we come into contact with.”
April 2020
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Meghan took to social media to share a heartfelt message for her husband while they were confined to quarantine.
“If somebody had 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 caring for 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 consuming 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 fed up sense of humor.”
September 2020
Meghan welcomed her and Domenech’s first child, daughter Liberty.
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“We are thrilled 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 stated that President Donald Trump “completely mishandled” the COVID pandemic on X, one follower decided to attack Meghan and her appearance, writing, “Megan [sic] must be waving those fat boobs of hers to get your attn … loser.”
Domenech immediately defended Meghan, writing, “I must inform you it does not diminish me to have a wife with large breasts.”
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.”
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January 2023
The couple welcomed daughter Clover.
“Ben and I are overjoyed to introduce Liberty to her baby sister and begin 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 apprehensive” about expanding her family.
“It’s a boy,” she added. “I’m very apprehensive about having a boy. And I’m very apprehensive 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.”
