Pete Buttigieg, the millennial mayor turned presidential candidate, had his Fox News town hall standing ovation followed up with a sitting ovation on ABC’s “The View.”
“Didn’t the guy get a standing ovation?” host Joy Behar asked about Buttigieg’s Fox News town hall Sunday.
“He got a standing ovation at the end of the town hall,” host Sunny Hostin answered.
The group spent a segment of the show praising the young presidential candidate.
Meghan McCain called Buttigieg “an incredibly ambitious politician with a huge future in front of him no matter what.”
“That was very evident last night. The cleanest smoothest I’ve seen do a town hall on Fox,” McCain added.
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While the hosts had kind words for Buttigieg, they also slammed some of his opponents for refusing to appear on Fox News for a town hall.
“I have believed from the beginning that Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris — when the Democrats don’t show up, they lose. Just like they did in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania last time when Trump got in. They need to show up. That’s my philosophy about anything in life. Show up,” Behar said in response to Warren and Harris saying they would turn down invitations to appear on a Fox News town hall.
“There are people that watch Fox News that do watch it in good faith. They watch it to get their information and get their news. You can’t always speak in an echo chamber. You’ve got to go into difficult spaces with people that don’t agree with you,” Hostin agreed.
Warren refused to attend a Fox News town hall last week, calling the network a “hate-for-profit racket.” A day later, Harris also said she would not entertain the idea of holding a town hall on the network.
Several of “The View” hosts criticized Warren when she initially said she would not attend a town hall.
“I think that it’s being very dismissive of so many Americans for her not to go on Fox News,” Hostin said.
McCain called the decision “very shortsighted on her part.”
