Democratic Party Infighting Spills Over Onto ‘The View’ As Co-Hosts Clash: ‘Stop It Already’

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ABC’s “The View” has long been a forum for far-left pundits to exhibit the Democratic Party’s dysfunction.

But as members of the party continue to become more and more disillusioned with the state of its current leadership, there is even more abnormality on display than usual.

When discussing the backlash Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has received in the days since he voted in favor of a government funding bill backed by the GOP, co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar got into a bit of a dispute of their own.

As the Daily Caller reported:

“I hate to make speeches. But my father [and] my uncles all fought in World War II so that we would not have a fascist in the White House, and this is what we’re getting right now. And I would almost cry today for these people, these [veterans] who are losing everything. Why don’t the Democrats go out there and march and stop fighting with each other? I’m sick of it,” Behar said.

Hostin then justified former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s criticisms of Schumer for voting in favor of the GOP funding bill to keep the government open.

“Well I don’t know, Joy, that they’re fighting with each other,” Hostin pushed back. “It’s a unified fight, that is the problem.”

“The fact that Nancy is out there criticizing Schumer, stop it already,” Behar said.

“You know why she’s criticizing him? Because he should have been fighting for that veteran. He should have been fighting for the people of America that are feeling the way they are feeling,” Hostin said. “The Americans that I’ve spoken to, people that approach me almost every single day say that they don’t feel like [the Democrats] are fighting for them. This is not about, well, [Schumer] had the chance to fight for them. Chuck Schumer caved to the GOP and got nothing!”

Discord within the Democratic Party has been a common topic of social media discussion in the months since President Donald Trump’s Election Day victory — but it has clearly intensified in the aftermath of Schumer’s vote:

As for the comments by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) referenced in the conversation between Behar and Hostin, here’s what Politico reported earlier this week:

“I myself don’t give away anything for nothing,” Pelosi told reporters during a news conference at a children’s hospital in San Francisco. “I think that’s what happened the other day.”

Pelosi — who spoke during an event to oppose House Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid — said she still supports Schumer, her longtime ally who’s come under fire from within his own party in recent days over his decision to allow the GOP’s bill to avert a government shutdown through last Friday.

“We could have, in my view, perhaps, gotten them to agree to a third way,” Pelosi said. She said a potential outcome could have been a bipartisan continuing resolution to delay a shutdown for up to four weeks while negotiations continued.

She added, “They may not have agreed to it, but at least the public would have seen they’re not agreeing to it — and that then they would have been shutting (the) government down.”

And here’s a clip of the recent segment of “The View”:



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