“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin groaned on Tuesday after Alyssa Farah Griffin introduced she would help GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley within the major, and stated, “you possibly can’t help her.”
The co-hosts mentioned backlash towards Haley over her reply to a query about what prompted the Civil Warfare, which didn’t initially embrace mentioning slavery. Haley addressed the backlash shortly after and stated slavery was the “very first thing” she ought to have stated.
Hostin, who as soon as accused Haley of being a “chameleon” by suggesting Haley tried to cover her Indian ethnicity, groaned and stated, “no,” after Griffin stated she would nonetheless help Haley within the major.
“It simply reveals you who she is, and when somebody, Maya Angelou stated, ‘When somebody reveals you who they’re, consider them the primary time,” Hostin stated earlier than accusing Haley of being a “hypocrite.”
“Can I simply say this? This isn’t the primary time she has been a hypocrite. She stated, ‘I, as a South Carolina governor, took down the Accomplice flag.’ Nikki Haley, you took down that flag since you have been pressured to. As a result of I used to be there protecting that taking pictures in South Carolina when all these individuals have been murdered by Dylann Roof,” Hostin stated.
“So you possibly can kiss my grits if you attempt to say some nonsense about you don’t — ‘You need to have stated slavery. All people is aware of slavery.’ She didn’t say it deliberately as a result of 85 p.c of Republicans are White,” Hostin continued.
Griffin pushed again and stated that almost all White Individuals didn’t wish to “whitewash slavery.”
“You may’t help her. You’re rational,” Hostin stated to Griffin.
GOP VOTERS APPEAR UNBOTHERED BY NIKKI HALEY’S CIVIL WAR GAFFE: ‘PILE OF BULLS—’
Griffin argued she was anxious about Donald Trump turning into president.
“I’ve rung the alarm bells. I’m not satisfied Joe Biden can beat him,” she stated. “Nikki Haley isn’t a menace to democracy.”
Co-host Pleasure Behar confidently stated President Biden would beat Trump within the 2024 election. Hostin appeared to agree and stated, “He’ll.”
A voter requested Haley what she believed was “the trigger” of the conflict throughout a latest marketing campaign occasion.
“I believe the reason for the Civil Warfare was mainly how authorities was going to run — the freedoms and what individuals may and couldn’t do,” she stated on the occasion.
“I imply, I believe all of it comes right down to the function of presidency,” she added. “We have to have capitalism. We have to have financial freedom. We have to ensure that we do all issues in order that people have the liberties in order that they will have freedom of speech, freedom of faith, freedom to do or be something they wish to be with out authorities getting in the best way.”
Responding to the criticism of her response, Haley stated, “The very first thing I ought to have stated was slavery.”
“I utterly agree with that. If you develop up within the South, slavery is a given. Like if you consider the Civil Warfare, you already know it was about slavery. That is by no means been in query,” she continued.
Fox Information’ Madeline Coggins contributed to this report.