Aside from so-called “Sunny Hostin” making racist attacks against former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley targeting her name and skin tone, ABC's The View also floated names of Democrats to be their nominee in 2024 on Tuesday. One potential ticket paring that got some vocal support from the cast was California Governor Gavin Newsom and Georgia’s pretend-Governor Stacey Abrams. And the former in particular got high praise from the racist Hostin.
Near the top of the show, Joy Behar fantasized about former President Trump being in prison for unnamed “crimes” or having fled to Russia as the reasons he would not be able to run again:
BEHAR: Unless – to me – unless Trump is in prison –
[Laughter and applause]
It could happen. If Trump is in prison or is somewhere in some maybe, in Saudi Arabia, somewhere --
HOSTIN: Russia.
BEHAR: Russia. It's possible. Then I think that Joe Biden is the one to beat him. He beat him before. He'll beat him again.
Having settled on a future featuring Trump in an orange jumpsuit, her next choice was the pair of Governors. “I think Gavin Newsome has a chance. Gavin Newsom and Stacey Abrams. What a ticket that would be,” she rhetorically asked the audience.
Behar’s second suggestion was Jon Tester. But proving that he has almost no name recognition, she immediately asks, “Does anyone know who he is? He is the senator from Montana.” Among the attributes, Behar thought were favorable were his “crew cut” hairstyle and how “he looks like a real outdoorsy guy.”
Whining as though she was on a dating site, Hostin huffed: “I don’t want to vote for an outdoorsy guy.” “He's a good guy and he's smart,” Behar spoke in his defense, still sounding like this was a blind date.
But co-host Whoopi Goldberg didn’t like all this talk about different Democrats because it implied they would kick President Biden to the curb. “This is how I feel, this is how I feel, there is nothing wrong with Joe Biden,” she proclaimed. “He has done what nobody else was able to do. And so, you know, I feel like if you've done a good job I want you to continue to do that.”
Goldberg ominously decried the idea of supporting a Republican because they need to be “re-educated”:
I don't want to have to re-educate another person of what the values of this country are. I don't want to do it. And if you find a Republican who we don't have to re-educate about the values of America and the promise, then it's a discussionable [sic]. But the folks that you [co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin] mentioned because they hung on every word of you-know-who said, they don't qualify.
As they were getting ready to head to a commercial break, Hostin spoke up again to make a full-throated endorsement of her heartthrob: Newsom. “I think Gavin Newsom is sort of that fresh energy that we need, I think that he is charismatic, I think that he is smart, he runs the fifth-largest economy in the world, more productive than India and the United Kingdom, I think if you want someone who wants real leadership and business experience,” she said.
Concluding: “I'm not going to talk about the good looks, Gavin Newsom.”
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ABC’s The View
September 20, 2022
11:04:17 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY BEHAR: Unless – to me – unless Trump is in prison –
[Laughter and applause]
It could happen. If Trump is in prison or is somewhere in some maybe, in Saudi Arabia, somewhere --
SUNNY HOSTIN: Russia.
BEHAR: Russia. It's possible. Then I think that, Joe Biden is the one to beat him. He beat him before. He'll beat him again. If Trump is not in prison, which according to what I’m reading is highly unlikely because Merrick Garland says no one is above the law – and let us hope that he means that because he has certainly committed crimes, Trump has – then I think Gavin Newsome has a chance. Gavin Newsom and Stacey Abrams. What a ticket that would be.
HOSTIN: Oh.
BEHAR: Pretty good.
[Applause]
And there’s one other guy! I’m going to bring up another name: Jon Tester. Does anyone know who he is? He is the senator from Montana. He's from a state that Trump won in 2020, and he's been very vocal about the Democrats needing to appeal to middle America, just like, you know – Because he's from Montana, he's got a crew cut, he looks like a real – outdoorsy guy. You know?
HOSTIN: I don’t want to vote for an outdoorsy guy.
[Laughter]
BEHAR: But he’s a smart guy. He was the lead sponsor of the PACT Act that helps toxin-exposed veterans. He's a good guy. He's a good guy and he's smart. And I think somebody like him might have a chance just like Bill Clinton was from the south and appealed to a lot of conservatives because of that.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think Tester is actually interesting, he's a fairly moderate Democrat, but I think could do incredibly well in the general.
(…)
11:08:08 a.m. Eastern
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: This is how I feel, this is how I feel, there is nothing wrong with Joe Biden.
BEHAR: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: He has done what nobody else was able to do. And so, you know, I feel like if you've done a good job I want to you to continue to do that. I don't want to have to re-educate another person of what the values of this country are. I don't want to do it. And if you find a Republican who we don't have to re-educate about the values of America and the promise, then it's a discussionable. But the folks that you mentioned, because they hung on every word of you-know-who said, they don't qualify.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Liz Cheney, though.
GOLDBERG: Except maybe Liz.
[Applause]
HOSTIN: Can I say something very quickly?
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
HOSTIN: I think Gavin Newsom is sort of that fresh energy that we need, I think that he is charismatic, I think that he is smart, he runs the fifth-largest economy in the world, more productive than India and the United Kingdom, I think if you want someone who wants real leadership and business experience, I'm not going to talk about the good looks, Gavin Newsom.
[Applause]
GOLDBERG: I'm going to say this again -- I'm going to say this again -- I don't want to have to re-educate somebody on what to do, because I don't want him sticking his tongue out at the guy in Florida, I want somebody who's going to fix what's going on in California.
HOSTIN: But he challenged him to a debate.
GOLDBERG: But we got to go. But we'll be back.