Meghan McCain Snaps At Joy Behar In Tense View Slugfest: Trump’s Messaging is ‘Better Than Yours!’

On Thursday, The View tackled the divide between “red” and “blue” America, and things got heated between Joy Behar and Meghan McCain.

“Some of this is about race. I think we can concede that. But a lot of this is about poverty, which again, seems to be missed in the mainstream media,” McCain explained. “When you are living in a tiny town in America and your coal mine or steel mine went under and opiate addiction is raging in your town, and there is no hope for your kids, and you can’t pay your insurance -”

“Gee, sounds like black people,” Whoopi Goldberg interjected, to applause from the audience.

“I adore you, as you know, but that was a cheap shot,” McCain sniped. After some back-and-forth, she added: “I’m coming on the show trying to explain what Red America is thinking and doing, and I believe I understand.”

“What I would like to know, is why do people think that the Republican Party with Trump in charge, is going to help them out of their poverty when they give tax breaks to the very wealthy of this country?” Behar asked. “Their policy is going to destroy American companies.”

McCain, visibly frustrated, yelled: “Because his messaging is better than yours!”

“Even if it’s a lie?” Behar shot back.

“Even if it’s a lie,” McCain said. “When someone comes to you, sometimes when you are so poor and again, I don’t know this. It’s just the people I have talked to. It’s easier to believe, I’m going to make America great, and I’m going to make it easier, even if it’s a lie.”

“If you don’t invest in education, people don’t know what’s going on,” Behar answered.

Watch above, via ABC.

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