With the calendar finally reading “2024,” the realization and panic seemed to be really setting in for the liberal cast of ABC’s The View. During an interview with former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, which spanned most of the Wednesday show, moderator Whoopi Goldberg and co-host Sara Haines literally begged Cheney to launch a third party and/or run third party in order to stop former President Trump from possibly beating President Biden, if he won the GOP nomination.
After returning from a commercial break, Goldberg immediately floated the idea of Cheney finding a “smart” Democrat to start a third party with. “I have felt for a long time that there's no reason why you can't find somebody smart on the left and somebody smart on the right and put them together and make that the new party,” she opined.
Faux conservative Ana Navarro quipped that a “Cheney/Goldberg” ticket could be in the works. Goldberg shot it down, saying that running for office wasn’t for her, but pressed Cheney on the idea and claimed elections would be outlawed if Trump was elected again:
Do you see yourself and would you ever consider being the conduit to that third party? Because I don't know if the Republican Party as we knew it will survive this because if he ever gets in again we'll never have any more elections. There will be no more. He will stop it and he's very clear about that. He wants to be dictator for life! Okay?
Goldberg all but got down on her knees “begging” Cheney to run third party. “So I wonder would you ever consider, please, would you, please consider being that person? … Would you – please – I'm begging you. Look, I'm on one knee,” she pleaded.
Cheney didn’t give a definitive answer, just a word salad response about how she had hope for civil discourse in America (Click “expand”):
CHENEY: I think honestly, Whoopi, that there are millions of Americans -- I think the majority of Americans agree with what you just said in terms of the need for us to be able to say, “you know, let's have the debates about policy and substance, but we love our country more than our political party.” And going forward, we have to be able to come together.
The most effective relationships and debates and work that I did in the House in addition to the select committee was work with some of the people that Ana was mentioning, the Democratic members, the women, people like Abigail Spanburger and Elissa Slotkin. People who – we disagree but could sit down and say, “Why do you think that?”
GOLDBERG: Yes.
CHENEY: “Teach me” and then, you know, you have those kind of exchanges. I do think that's where our politics is going, and I certainly want to be a part of helping make sure that helps.
Haines followed up by whining about independents not being allowed to participate in party primaries in most states. “Liz, one thing as an independent that bothers me is that independents decide elections. And the way our system is set up with the way our primaries and many of them being closed, the people like me don't get to participate in choosing, which I think is driving to majorly partisan elected people like the Marjorie Taylor Greenes, like the Donald Trumps,” she huffed.
Saying she “now concedes” that she “can't participate in a lot of states,” Haines suggested she “would just take a good person” like Cheney, then proceeded to press her to run third party too: “Would you ever run for president?”
“Oh, well, I haven't -- I'm not going to rule it out. I haven't made a decision about that,” Cheney said.
Their desire for Cheney to run third party was dripping with hypocrisy. Back in July, The View was viciously against the idea of a third-party campaign from the No Labels Party, because it could harm Biden. And in November, they lashed out at Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) because there were rumors he was thinking of running third party.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
January 10, 2024
11:49:44 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: Hey, we're back with Liz Cheney and I have a question because I have felt for a long time that there's no reason why you can't find somebody smart on the left and somebody smart on the right and put them together and make that the new party.
ANA NAVARRO: Is this going to be a new ticket? Cheney/Goldberg?
GOLDBERG: Never me but I tell you, we probably don't agree on a lot of stuff but we agree on the fact that we have a great deal of respect for the country. For our country and how we want to see it run.
Do you see yourself and would you ever consider being the conduit to that third party? Because I don't know if the Republican Party as we knew it will survive this, because if he ever gets in again we'll never have any more elections. There will be no more. He will stop it and he's very clear about that. He wants to be dictator for life! Okay?
So I wonder would you ever consider, please, would you, please consider being that person? Because I got to tell you, I was really -- I don't understand how people can say, “we're with you, we're with you, we're with you,” and then when you need them they go, “oh, but we're with him now.” I don't understand that and I don't understand how you find the grace not to be pissed at folks.
LIZ CHENEY: Oh, I'm not.
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG: You're mad at them but you're not pissed at them. Because if you were pissed at them, you would have given up on them, and you haven’t. And so, would you – please – I'm begging you.
[Laughter]
Look, I'm on one knee.
CHENEY: I think honestly, Whoopi, that there are millions of Americans -- I think the majority of Americans agree with what you just said in terms of the need for us to be able to say, “you know, let's have the debates about policy and substance, but we love our country more than our political party.” And going forward, we have to be able to come together.
The most effective relationships and debates and work that I did in the House in addition to the select committee was work with some of the people that Ana was mentioning, the Democratic members, the women, people like Abigail Spanburger and Elissa Slotkin. People who – we disagree but could sit down and say, “Why do you think that?”
GOLDBERG: Yes.
CHENEY: “Teach me” and then, you know, you have those kind of exchanges. I do think that's where our politics is going, and I certainly want to be a part of helping make sure that helps.
SARA HAINES: Liz, one thing as an independent that bothers me is that independents decide elections. And the way our system is setup with the way our primaries, and many of them being closed, the people like me don't get to participate in choosing, which I think is driving to majorly partisan elected people like the Marjorie Taylor Greenes, like the Donald Trumps. I'm now concedes because I can't participate in a lot of states I would just take a good person, someone who believes in what you've spoken to and what you spoken [gestures to Goldberg and Cheney]. Would you ever run for president?
[Applause]
CHENEY: Oh, well, I haven't -- I'm not going to rule it out. I haven't made a decision about that.
(…)
