‘NOOOOO!’ Sunny Hostin Distraught After Alyssa Farah Griffin Reveals She’s Still Backing Nikki Haley After Civil War Gaffe

The View’s Sunny Hostin couldn’t hide her distaste when Alyssa Farah Griffin declared she still supported Nikki Haley (R-SC) for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, despite Haley’s gaffe on slavery.

Haley was widely criticized for neglecting to mention slavery when asked at a December campaign stop about the cause of the Civil War.

“I do support Nikki Haley and want to say unequivocally, this comment was wrong, bizarre, historically inaccurate,” Griffin said. “It felt like pandering, too, and I sort of get insulted by that, because the vast majority of Republicans do not want to whitewash slavery. Maybe our elected politicians have that take, but most do not — ”

“It’s the base, that’s who she’s talking to,” Joy Behar interjected.

“She did walk it back, unlike Ron DeSantis when he stepped in it with AP Black History. He kept, doubling and tripling and quadrupling down. But here’s what I’ll say with Haley. I’m still supporting her in the primary, and here’s why,” Griffin said, as Hostin turned up her nose at the notion.

“Nooooooo!” Hostin exclaimed.

Griffin explained that she agreed with Haley on “historic, generation-defining issues,” such as U.S. support of Ukraine and Israel, and declared that Haley was not an “existential threat to our democracy.”

“Can I just say this?” Hostin said. “It shows you who she is, and when someone — Maya Angelou said, ‘When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.” As the audience applauded, Hostin continued:

This is not the first time that she has — Can I just say this? This is not the first time she has been a hypocrite. She said, “I, as a South Carolina governor took down the Confederate flag.” Nikki Haley, you took down that flag because you were forced to. because I was there covering that shooting in South Carolina when all those people were murdered by Dylann Roof.

She was forced to take it down, and when she took it down, she said, “For many people in our state, the flag stands for traditions that are noble, traditions of history, of heritage and of ancestry.” So you can kiss my grits when you try to say some nonsense about you don’t — “You should have said slavery. Everybody knows slavery.” She didn’t say it intentionally because 85 percent of Republicans are white and she does not want to — “

“Most white Americans don’t want to whitewash slavery,” Griffin finished her sentence.

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