WATCH: The View blasts GOP ‘thugs’ as ‘uncivilized’ after speaker election process
Julia Johnson
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The ladies of The View slammed Republicans in the House of Representatives as “thugs” on Monday, reacting to last week’s tumultuous speaker election process.
“The Republicans like to use identity politics, and they like to talk about thugs a lot, and they like to talk about other people. I saw a lot of thuggishness going on. I saw thugs at work,” said Sunny Hostin.
She continued, “I saw this uncivilized nature, and it’s like they were raised by wolves, many of them, and so I wonder if you are doing that in the chamber on the House floor, how do you expect to govern and lead by example? That’s something I wouldn’t want to see my kids do, and they were doing it.”
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Ana Navarro joked that she “thought I was watching a Real Housewives reunion.”
Whoopi Goldberg then claimed that reactions would have been different had the hosts of The View fought the way Republicans did on the House floor, saying “people would have lost their minds.”
“They were holding the entire country hostage because there were no members sworn in,” said Sara Haines. “There was no legislative business, no security briefings.”
“Kevin McCarthy got what he wanted,” Navarro explained. “It’s going to be on his obituary that he was speaker of the House, which is a good thing because being speaker of the House might be the death of him.”
“He now has to lead this herd of unruly cats,” she said, further claiming that Republicans hate Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) more than they did Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
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Hostin concluded by giving a “shoutout to Hakeem Jeffries” for “how he schooled the Republicans.” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) received 212 votes from a unified Democratic conference after being nominated to take on McCarthy for the speakership.
Last week, McCarthy finally won the title on the 15th ballot. His election came after a series of negotiations and several concessions to the handful of Republicans who withheld their votes from him. On Monday, the House will embark on passing a rules package. The rules decided on will guide the House over the next two years.