SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly criticized “The View” on Tuesday for their “hero’s welcome” for Vice President Kamala Harris, slamming her response during the interview.
After weeks of backlash and calls for Harris to participate in more interviews as the race tightens against former President Donald Trump, her campaign announced over the weekend a lineup of media events, including an appearance on ABC’s “The View.” On “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Kelly likened the hosts’ excitement over Harris to that of a “female Jesus,” playing a clip of Whoopi Goldberg introducing the vice president to the audience.
“You won’t be surprised to learn it truly was like female Jesus showed up. Female Jesus walked onto the set and keep in mind this is ABC, which already treated her like female Jesus at that ABC News debate. And I use the term ABC News loosely,” Kelly said. “Just watch the walkout. It looked more like Elvis showing up at a concert than this did like an organization that is supposed to be a news organization hosting a presidential candidate.”
Kelly then called out Goldberg, asking if the celebrity could “just try to grow up a little.” The Sirius XM host further stated that, based on her experience with the show, she believes Goldberg would have given Harris her questions beforehand.
“There are no illusions anymore. And as I’ve told you before, [I’ve] been on The View many times, they give you the questions in advance. 100% I guarantee they gave Kamala Harris and or her team, this is my opinion based on my own experience, a little blue card with all the questions on it. That’s what they did with me every single time. And I said, ‘I don’t need the damn questions. I do this for a living. I’m good,’” Kelly said. “There’s zero chance, in my opinion, they did not give her the questions in advance. So they gave her advance, so they gave her this hero’s welcome.”
Kelly continued by playing another clip showing co-host Sunny Hostin asking the vice president if she could have done anything differently than President Joe Biden in the last four years. While Harris has tried to distance herself from Biden, particularly on issues like the economy and inflation, she told “The View” hosts that “not a thing that comes to mind” when considering changes over the past four years with the president.
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“Literally, I guarantee you that’s being made into an ad right now. It might hit before we close out the show, within an hour, we’ll keep checking. There’s no chance Trump’s not going to pick the second half of that answer. Pin it and end it with what he’s been doing, which is, ‘I’m Donald Trump, and I approve this message.’ That’s her owning all the Biden policies on a day in which the new New York Times/Siena poll drops with good news for Harris, showing among likely voters nationally, she’s now up three points over Donald Trump,” Kelly said.
“She’s just trying to stall because she realizes she’s on quicksand, and then she fails. You know, Sunny has to follow up because she’s got her little blue guard right in front of [her]. I’ve seen them a million times, her questions are written for her. So she asked the follow up question, ‘But like, if you had to say?’ And she goes with, ‘Kind of nothing, we’re the same.’ Good luck spinning that, because this poll shows us that the people want difference, they want change. They do not want four more years of Joe Biden,” Kelly said.
In a New York Times/Siena College poll released Tuesday, 46% of 3,385 likely voters stated they believe Harris is the candidate for change, while 44% said they believe Trump is. This shift in voter perception now has Harris leading the Republican presidential candidate by three points, with the poll’s margin of sampling error at plus or minus 2.4 points.
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