The co-hosts on The View engaged in a shouting match while discussing the “send her back” chants that took place at President Trump’s Wednesday rally, despite all of them being in agreement.
The chants were directed at Rep. Ilhan Omar and was the latest in a slew of attacks that began last weekend when the president suggested she and three other prominent freshmen congresswomen could “go back” to their native countries if they’re unhappy with the status of the United States.
Meghan McCain, a conservative on the show, has called the attacks racist all week. Despite being in agreement with the rest of the hosts on Friday, screams broke out when Joy Behar continued to ask why Republicans weren’t calling the attacks out.
“I have gotten a lot of interesting phone calls from a lot of people that I don’t normally hear from about, ‘What are we going to do?’ Because this is this bad. This, I do think is one of those moments much like Charlottesville that will stand in memory, and my answer to Democrats is, if you can’t beat this, what are you doing? Because this shouldn’t be this hard to beat,” McCain stated.
Ana Navarro then gave an impassioned diatribe criticizing Senator Marco Rubio for defending the president.
“She has really raw emotion right now, your hand is shaking with your card. You’re not the first person I have seen like this this week. There’s a lot of people, a lot of hardworking conservatives I know that are very, very, very upset,” McCain responded.
“I’m so sorry to hear that. Why don’t they open their mouths?” Behar asked.
“Because some of them — you know what, Joy? Because some of them are private citizens and friends of mine that don’t have the kind of platforms we do,” McCain answered. “I’m sorry, my friend Sara in Scottsdale, [Arizona] doesn’t have the same kind of platform I do.”
Behar and Navarro named former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Rubio.
“If you’re a normal Republican walking around the streets of New York City, like you and I or wherever, and you are tagged with this right now,” McCain pushed back. “It is humiliating. It’s embarrassing. It’s — I don’t know what to do about it anymore. I have said this all week, and the fact that we are tainted with this as Republicans and conservatives, yes, it’s cowardice on the other side. I don’t know what else I can do, other than we are calling it out as loud as we can, with the platforms we have.”
Sunny Hostin then asked why conservatives were willing to denounce the chants but not Trump.
“It’s not complicated,” McCain angrily responded as she was still talking. “I don’t know why this question keeps getting asked. It’s obviously about power. I’m sorry. This is not a complicated question.”
She then told the other hosts to “stop asking” why Republicans weren’t condemning the president.
