Edgy over “elites,” the co-hosts of “The View” were put on defense by a GOP governor’s takedown of the coronation candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris.
(Video: ABC)
A far cry from an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu joined daytime TV’s harpy huddle Thursday where he wasn’t shy about airing his lasting distaste for the Republican nominee. In spite of that, the executive recognized the will of the people as he himself had agreed to back the primary victor, a point he called the Democratic Party out on after supplanting President Joe Biden with Harris.
“They voted for Biden to be president, and then it wasn’t like it was sent to the convention, and then the delegates had a choice or anything like that, a couple elites-” the governor was asserting when co-host Sunny Hostin interrupted to argue, “She has 2,000 delegates already.”
Undeterred by the interjection that added to his point about elites making the nomination choice for voters, Sununu went on, “Three phone calls were made from Schumer and Pelosi. Biden said I’m in this thing, I’m not leaving. A couple phone calls are made, and all of a sudden he’s pushed out and in 48 hours all the delegates aren’t given a choice of other candidates, they’re told you’re gonna get behind Kamala.”
To his point, reports had indicated that Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had repeatedly engaged with Biden in a “good cop, bad cop” routine that included alleged threats of invoking the 25th Amendment to kick him out of the White House if he refused to suspend his re-election campaign.
We all suspected it and here’s how it went down: Top Dems threatened Biden with 25th Amendment – report https://t.co/jmItCXKCyZ
— American Wire News (@americanwire_) July 23, 2024
Refusing to accept Sununu’s premise that the party known for pearl-clutching over preserving democracy had acted in a wholly undemocratic way to prop up a candidate who’d previously ended her own White House run when she’d failed to garner support ahead of 2020, Whoopi Goldberg invoked other high profile figures who’d ruled themselves out of a slapdash, speed-dating-style primary leading up to the Aug. 19 Democratic National Convention start.
“The other choices decided she was the best choice,” said Goldberg. “Newsom said I’m not going to challenge this. People decided who would have gone in to challenge said no, we’re not going to challenge her.”
For her part, Goldberg also refused to use Trump’s name, earning a jab from Sununu who then referred to the GOP leader as the Harry Potter villain Voldemort.
Flipping the script, the governor argued over how it would have been received if leaders from the Republican National Committee had decided to forego the will of the people and nominate his preferred candidate from the primary, former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
“We’re just going to [install] Nikki Haley now,” his hypothetical scenario suggested were Trump suffering in the polls. “That would be awful. Because the voters have to decide.”
While co-host Joy Behar appeared to miss the point, seemingly savoring a path that would see the former president sidelined while relishing in a head-to-head competition for the White House with women leading the tickets, Goldberg vented over Sununu’s continued description of the backroom decision-makers.
“Stop calling them elites,” she insisted as the governor acquiesced to describe them as “insiders.”
Still, Hostin remained unmoved by the arguments from the guest as she suggested the vote for Harris had happened because she was on the ticket as vice president, “They did vote. They did vote. They voted for Harris as vice president. And the delegates want her as the nominee.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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