Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar have differing views on what to do with those who have supported President Donald Trump in the past, but no longer.
On Wednesday’s “The View,” the panel talked about Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was once an ardent Trump supporter, who has now done a 180.
Behar wishes to embrace and welcome supporters the now-vocal critics, while Hostin think the should be rejected.
The show played a clip of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) m earlier this week when she said Democrats should welcome former MAGA supporters like Greene.
Behar supported Omar’s idea, saying she welcomes people like Greene into the anti-Trump tent.
Sara Haines, however, called out Greene’s association to conspiracy theory figures like Alex Jones.
Hostin stated Greene should be rejected “altogether.”
“It seems to me that they are seeing the emergency that we’re in right now with Trump in the White House. Every day he becomes more erratic, he’s starting to say crazy things. Every day it’s crazier and crazier,” Behar said. “And so I think that they’re beginning to see that. And you know, I always will welcome — if you’ve seen the light, come right into my tent. There’s a lot of room for the never-Trumpers and the non-Trumpers. So maybe that’s what it’s gonna be.”
“I love when someone sees the light on an issue, but the details matter, because Marjorie Taylor Greene, the whole idea that she now sees Donald Trump for someone that she doesn’t trust anymore or whatever, fine. But she still dances in circles of anti-Semitism, mingles with people like Nick Fuentes, goes on Alex Jones’ podcast,” Haines responded.
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Behar asked if Greene should be “rejected altogether.”
“Yes, we should reject her altogether,” Hostin said. “I’m sorry, Joy.”
Behar stated she doesn’t “hold grudges.”
“Why are you so welcoming, Joy?” Hostin asked.
“I’m not welcoming. I don’t hold grudges. If they want to come over to my side, I’m taking them,” Behar said.
“Well, I’m gonna hold a grudge,” Hostin said, adding that Greene needs to “go amongst her people and convince her people.”
“That’s what she did,” Whoopi Goldberg argued, adding Greene has taken her Trump criticism to right-wing shows.
“In terms of welcoming her with open arms like Joy wants to do and give her a big bear hug, I’m not gonna do that,” Hostin said.
Alyssa Farah Griffin added her two cents, saying she understands the perspectives of both Behar and Hostin. She argued the need to build your “coalition.”
“You want to give Marjorie Taylor Greene a big bear hug?!” Hostin asked.
“Let her tell you what she wants to do. Stop, calm down,” Goldberg said.
Griffin continued explaining her stance.
“On a human level, if somebody passionately agrees with me on one issue and we disagree on other things, I look for the movement forward we could have on that one issue, even if I may never agree on that other thing,” Griffin said. “But politically speaking, there are some candidates and some Democrats who’ve been out there and saying, I don’t want a single Trump voter, I do not need a single one. Jasmine Crockett famously said that and James Talarico beat her for the Senate nomination in Texas as the Democrat.”
