Sara Haines, co-host of The View, has warned that the Democratic Party’s unhinged screaming and volatile behavior at rallies is not fixing the country and is making things worse for them. Whoopi Goldberg noted that progressive leaders like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are engaging at rallies “at a moment when leadership roles on the left are wide open.”
Goldberg also recalled how Sanders showed in his recent interview that he was “not ready to talk about future party planning yet.”
Sanders recently accused ABC “This Week” host Jonathan Karl of asking a “nonsense” question about whether Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., should run for the Senate. His remarks came amid speculation that Ocasio-Cortez would challenge Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in a primary after he caved to Republicans in support of a government funding bill.
“So Bernie, AOC are out there, people are really kind of annoyed a lot about what’s going on, maybe not everything, but much more than we were seeing perhaps in the media and on different shows,” Goldberg said.
Co-host Ana Navarro suggested:
“People are thirsty, desperate, to hear somebody that gives them fire, that leads them into this fight, that channels their anger and their frustration. They want to hear from those people. That’s why Bernie Sanders and AOC are getting 34,000 people to show up to a rally in Denver. Fifteen thousand people to show up to a rally in Phoenix. I mean, think about this. They are not running. This is not an election year. This is two months into the Trump Administration, and they are getting tens of thousands of people because people want to fight, and they want somebody that will lead them in that fight.”
Co-host Sunny Hostin jumped in and said that while many voters indeed want a “fighting opposition party,” the actual policies of Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders would be unpopular.
“They want a fighting opposition party and that’s the majority of the country. I think that’s why AOC and Bernie are sort of packing these things,” she said.
“What I will say is, I don’t know that the message is correct. I think that their messaging is a little bit off. If you look at what people want and are looking for, because costs and economy is still No. 1 and taxing the rich may not do that for the majority of people. They want to see much more of an action plan. How do you address my pain?”
However, Haines argued that the rhetoric is not enough to drag the Democratic Party out of the abyss.
“I can see why people like the AOCs, the Bernie Sanders, I can feel myself clapping along, but the problem here is whereas they’re tapping into the anger, I don’t think just screaming and kind of performative, ‘We’re gonna fight’ is the way to go,” she said.
“I want absolutely solutions and that’s why I like Sen. Slotkin, who I keep repeating here over and over. She said, ‘I’m a pragmatist,’ and I’m a pragmatist. She is from a purple state. You can’t come at it just like – an AOC comes from a completely blue area, Bernie Sanders, completely blue area. Elissa Slotkin, Trump won her state.”
“So when you are dealing with that electorate and a country that’s divided,” she said, “it requires a different school of thought. I love to hear you shout, but I’m much more the person that says, ‘Show me what that got you.’
If screaming got you some budget plan, resolution, or compromise, then bravo I will be the loudest behind you. It didn’t. So I’m a more, ‘Put your heads down, unite under something and get your messaging going.’”
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