A surefire sign that you’re losing an argument is when you resort to personally attacking your opponent. After Democrats lost in Virginia’s gubernatorial election last night, the media has pulled out the race card from 2016, saying that the Republican candidate won because of racist whites (even though Republicans also elected the first black female lieutenant governor.)
This pity party was not over. The ViewThe Virginia race was the topic of Wednesday’s discussion. Their liberal host Michele Tafoya was criticized by the DNC for bringing up Critical Race Theory and Education.
Tafoya began by assessing the economy was one of the most crucial issues moving voters to vote for Republicans. “33% of voters coming out of those votes said economy was their number one choice. It was the number one choice. It’s the economy,” she stated.
But the liberal hosts didn’t want to concede that the GOP had a winning message. Joy Behar argued Democrat candidate Terry McAuliffe had been hurt by Democrats in Washington unable to get Biden’s agenda accomplished, which disenchanted liberal voters.
Sara Haines rejected the switch from red to blue because it was a long-standing trend in Virginia after decades of a presidential election. She also griped that Trump being banned off of social media may have helped Republican Glenn Youngkin: “The problem is, they say that might have helped, because without him not being right there, and people associating the Republican ticket with Trump, they were able to stay discreet.”
But Sunny Hostin bitterly complained Trump was “very present” in the election. Completely removed from reality, she also claimed Democrats didn’t put enough effort into convincing voters that CRT wasn’t “real” (see how wrong she is on that here.)
SUNNY HOSTIN – I believe it stuck. Trump actually seemed to be very present. Youngkin seemed to be very present. I believe he called Youngkin a lot and Youngkin kept Trump under wraps. However, if you examine exit polls 57% of white female voters voted Youngkin. That’s 55% more than Hillary Clinton. The exit polls also showed that 57% of White Women voted Youngkin.
TAFOYA 33%: The economy.
SUNNY HOSTIN : Yes, but 55% is much more than 33%.
TAFOYA – Of these women but not all voters.
HOSTIN – I think that’s what makes it interesting, you know. Democrats don’t like the message that CRT is fake.
BEHAR: This is not a school-based option. Only in law school. This is the only way.
Tafoya continued to debate Whoopi Goldberg over the question of whether CRT-like material is being taught in schools. Despite actually having seen this firsthand with her own kids, Whoopi and Hostin again told Tafoya that CRT wasn’t taught in schools.
Goldberg insisted conservatives just wanted to hide the country’s history of racism: “You cannot put in a different name, you can’t pretend we didn’t go through this,” She snorted.
Hostin stood behind her. “It was a racial reckoning,” she said, referring to the George Floyd riots and opposition to CRT.
Tafoya argued that the left wanted to erase all of history.
“No one is pretending [slavery didn’t happen],” she shot back. “In fact I think when we whitewash history by getting rid of certain names, statues and people and Laura Ingalls Wilder references then we forget,” she argued. ABC attempted to stop her by playing the exit music. Hostin was allowed to make the same vile assertions that a Republican had won due to racism.
HOSTIN: I suspect that the 57% of white women that voted for Youngkin do want to pretend that it didn’t happen and they don’t want their white children —
TAFOYA: I wouldn’t suspect that of those women, that’s not true.
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You can read the transcript here:
The View
11.3.21
MICHELE TAFOYA: …And I think it’s the economy, stupid. That was probably a phrase that someone once said. That phrase was not mine. But It is. It is. 33% of the voters who voted in those polls said that economy was their top choice. It was the number one. It is the economy.
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TAFOYA: They tried. I mean Biden mentioned him like 25 times in a 10 minute speech and it still didn’t stick.
SUNNY HOSTIN – I believe it stuck. Trump actually seemed to be very present. Youngkin seemed to be very present. I believe he called Youngkin a lot and Youngkin kept Trump under wraps. However, if you examine exit polls 57% of white female voters voted Youngkin. That’s 55% more than Hillary Clinton. The exit polls also showed that 57% of White Women voted Youngkin.
TAFOYA 33%: The economy.
SUNNY HOSTIN : Yes, but 55% is much more than 33%.
TAFOYA – Of these women but not all voters.
HOSTIN – I think that’s what makes it interesting, you know. Democrats do not like CRT fake messaging.
BEHAR: This is not a school-based option. Only in law school. This is the only way.
WHOOPI GLOBBERG: If people are interested in learning about the education at their school, they will give you a copy of the curriculum. You can ask them anything.
MICHELE TAFOYA : And Whoopi, people also watched their children online during the pandemic. This was a common theme and they recorded it a lot. While it might not accurately describe CRT, they did a lot racialized education — and I don’t mean to refer to teaching slavery. That’s fine, that’s all good.
GOLDBERG : Do you remember the events of the pandemic? George Floyd was probably there during the pandemic.
TAFOYA is in my home.
GOLDBERG : That’s what people were talking about —
HOSTIN : It was an act of racial reckoning.
GOLDBERG: Race. A lot of things were going on.
MICHELE TAFOYA – I don’t want to tell you that, but with two children in school, it has been happening for a long time, even before George Floyd.
GOLDBERG – I’ll tell you the truth, it is hard for me to say, but I have to. The history of this country is taught in most of the schools I’m aware.
TAFOYA – Yes. It should. All things, good and bad, should count.
GOLDBERG So, during the pandemic —
TAFOYA” No one is pretending that though. There is no pretending. Nobody is pretending. Second grade was about slavery. Nobody is pretending that it never happened.
[ABC plays exit music]
TAFOYA A: I believe that if we erase certain people, statues and Laura Ingalls Wilder quotes from history then it is easier to forget. It is important to be able to teach.
HOSTIN: I suspect that the 57% of white women that voted for Youngkin do want to pretend that it didn’t happen and they don’t want their white children —
TAFOYA: I wouldn’t suspect that of those women, that’s not true.
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