In an epic showdown on “The View” before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that turned into a conservative opinion-induced meltdown amongst the co-hosts on ABC’s woke talk show, the GOP Governor of New Hampshire, Chris Sununu, spoke out about the decision of the Democrats to make Vice President Kamala Harris their presidential nominee without her winning a primary.
Particularly, Gov. Sununu argued that President Biden had won the primary and wanted to stay in the race, but meddling from inside the party led to Vice President Harris becoming the nominee. He argued that such an outcome wasn’t particularly transparent, fair, or democratic, and thus that she wasn’t so much elected by the Democratic Party to be the presidential nominee as she was anointed by party insiders to be the nominee.
Commenting on that aspect of the Kamala situation, Gov. Sununu said, “Guys, look, three phone calls were made from [Sen. Chuck] Schumer and [former Speaker of the House Nancy] 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 going to get behind [VP Kamala Harris].”
That led to no small degree of outrage from the hosts of “The View,” with one of the woker co-hosts having a veritable meltdown in response to Gov. Sununu’s assessment of the situation and how VP Harris became the nominee. She snapped at Gov. Sununu, “That’s actually not what happened! The other choices decided she was the best choice. That’s what they decided.”
Gov. Sununu wasn’t having it. Responding to her freakout over the situation, he questioned her response and asked who made it so, pressing her on whether it was voting for Kamala that led to her nomination as the presidential contender, or if it was party insiders who were the ones who decided. He asked, “But who decided?” He added, “A lot of people voted for the ticket.”
He also asked to whom Whoopi was referring as “they,” asking her, “Who’s ‘they’?” Goldberg, not going down or conceding without a fight, snapped that it was Gov. Newsom who was involved, telling him, “[Gov. Gavin] Newsom said, ‘I’m not going to challenge this.’ People who would’ve gone in to challenge said, ‘No, we’re not going to challenge her.’”
Funnily enough, Whoopi didn’t fight back overly much on Gov. Sununu’s suggestion that a small coterie decided rather than voters, instead focusing on his terminology and snapping at Sununu to “stop calling them elites.” Gov. Sununu decided to concede the vocabulary shift Whoopi wanted and called them party “insiders” instead of elites. That spat came in response to Gov. Sununu saying that primaries matter “because the voters have to decide, not elites.”
Immediately before his spar with Whoopi, Gov. Sununu clashed with Sunny Hostin over who it was that Democratic primary voters voted for. He began by saying, “Let’s talk about what’s really going on in the last couple of weeks here. Democrat voters all voted for Joe Biden. And then a couple of elites said, ‘Yeah —‘” Hostin interrupted him and chimed in, “Well, they voted for Harris too. She was on the ticket.” Sununu said, in response, “Yeah, understood. But 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.”
Watch the spat and meltdown here:
Gov. Sununu has also commented on the election in Kamala in an op-ed for the New York Times, saying that, to win, the GOP should focus on policy rather than trash talk. He wrote, in the NYT op-ed, “Candidates need to give them a reason to turn out and vote. What solutions are you going to provide that will make life better for them, their families and their communities? This election will likely be a coin toss, and whoever turns out these voters will be well positioned to win.”
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