Media personality Megyn Kelly took note of The View’s reaction to Nikki Haley’s presidential bid announcement and questioned the midday talk show hosts’ hypocrisy.
The View hosts slammed Haley, with Whoopi Goldberg saying she “used to have some sanity.” Sunny Hostin called her a “political grifter and chameleon.”
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“She is already coming under attack by the Left,” Kelly said of Haley on Wednesday during The Megyn Kelly Show on SiriusXM. ”She is the sort of Republican that a Democrat could love … but they won’t love her. The Left never does.”
“I love The View calling her a ‘political grifter’ because she's waffled from time to time on Trump,” Kelly added. “I guess it's no problem if your name is Kamala Harris and you call Joe Biden a racist at a presidential debate and then run as his VP. That's not grifting. That's just good politics.”
Kelly also noted that The View co-host Joy Behar had to retract a comment regarding Haley being an “election denier,” reading a correction sent to her while still on the air.
“[Behar] couldn't even get off the air without having to admit she had misstated the facts,” Kelly said. “There's not gonna be any love for the Republican candidate, no matter who it is.”
Kelly’s guest, businessman David Sacks, suggested the problem is not that Haley is not “left-wing or liberal in the way The View wants her to be.”
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“She's not comfortable taking on these sort of hot-button cultural issues,” Sacks said of Haley. “I think the [Republican] nominee, first of all, has to appeal to the sort of more anti-establishment base and hopefully brings together the entire party. In my view, only Ron DeSantis can do that because I think he can appeal to both sides of it. But if you only appeal to one side or the other, you have to appeal to the base.”
Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, announced her presidential bid in a video Tuesday morning. With the announcement, she becomes the first major Republican to challenge former President Donald Trump.