Former President Donald Trump’s massive victory in the Iowa caucuses is leading one co-host of ABC’s “The View” to feel disgusted with the state.
During a segment of “The View” Tuesday, co-host Sunny Hostin dismissed her fellow panelists’ apparent attempts to downplay the results by focusing on the percentage of the state’s population that voted.
“Trump won 98 out of 99 Iowa counties that did vote. And out of those, he lost the 99th by just one vote,” Hostin said.
She went on, “So the notion somehow that that is just not representative of Iowa I think is actually a little bit misleading.”
However, co-host Sara Haines argued the number of caucus-goers made up just 5% of the state and, therefore, it is not representative of the state. Meanwhile, conservative co-host Alyssa Farah-Griffin pointed out former President Barack Obama won the state in previous elections.
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Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin says she's "disgusted" with Iowa for supporting Trump. Despite Obama carrying the state in 2008/2012, she hints that all Iowans were racist and openly argues that we don't actually need to hold elections there because we know they vote for racists. pic.twitter.com/6UHB29QwOd
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Yet, Hostin stated, “I think it is a little bit disingenuous to say that that 5% is not reflective of the rest of Iowa…. Trump’s [vote] share was 51%, DeSantis finished a pretty distant second at 21%, and Nikki Haley at 19%.”
“So I think we’re all sitting here disgusted that they would vote for someone like this. But I don’t think it was so outrageous that they did because we could have figured that out without the caucus,” she insisted.
On Monday, Trump easily won the Iowa caucuses with a nearly 30-point margin.
Meanwhile, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) came in second with less than half the votes the former president received.
And former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley finished in third place, around 2,000 votes behind DeSantis.
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy ended his campaign after the caucuses and endorsed Trump, as IJR reported. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) also dropped out after the caucuses.
