Sunny Hostin told ABC’s “The View” that she was dressed to mourn Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday victory over Nikki Haley.
Thirteen months after launching her 2024 Republican presidential campaign in Charleston, South Carolina, Haley has ended her bid for the White House. The former two-term South Carolina governor and later U.N. ambassador in the Trump administration announced Wednesday morning that “the time has come to end my campaign.”
The former president on Tuesday overwhelmingly won 14 of the 15 states where Republican presidential primaries and caucuses were held on Super Tuesday, securing Trump the Republican nomination and setting him up for a rematch with President Biden in the general election. It got very close.
Toward the end of Haley’s speech, Trump launched the Truth social platform and took aim at his former rival. “Nikki Haley was arrested last night in record-setting fashion,” the former president gushed.
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump arrives at an election night watch party at Mar-a-Lago on March 5, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“The View” co-hosts spoke Wednesday with ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl about Trump’s victory over his rival in the race for the Republican nomination, which resulted in Hostin wearing all black. He said he was extremely “devastated.”
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“It’s more the party than the country,” she said, criticizing the modern Republican Party. She said: “I’m wearing funeral clothes today because I’m so devastated by what I saw yesterday.”
She bemoaned the fact that “six out of 10 North Carolina primary voters say they think Mr. Trump is fit to be president even if he is convicted.”
Hostin is mourning Haley’s death because the past few months have seen a major shift in how she treated the Republican candidate.
In January, Hostin person who once accused criticized Hailey for being a “chameleon” for suggesting she tried to hide her Indian identity and scolding her co-host alyssa farrah griffin After she announced Haley in the primary. Hostin told Griffin: “You can’t support her.”
The co-hosts were discussing the backlash against Haley over a question about the causes of the Civil War, a response that initially did not include any mention of slavery. Haley addressed the backlash shortly afterward, saying she “should have said that first” about slavery.
“Can I just say this? This isn’t the first time she’s been a hypocrite. She said, ‘As governor of South Carolina, I took down the Confederate flag.'” “Nikki Haley, you took that flag down because you had to, because I was covering a mass shooting in South Carolina when Dylann Roof killed all these people. ,” Hostin said. “So when you try to talk shit about something you didn’t do, kiss my mettle. ‘You could have just said slavery. Everybody knows slavery.'” Of Republicans. She didn’t say that on purpose because it’s 85 percent white.”
Also in January, Hostin accused Haley of ageism for her comments about President Biden’s age, saying she doesn’t understand why people support the former South Carolina governor.
“I don’t understand why people are supporting Nikki Haley, especially women. When Hillary Clinton was running, there was a lot of talk about, ‘I’m not going to vote just because she has a vagina.’ I remember, “Well, at the end I made sure Nikki Haley had it too,” Hostin said.
In February, Hostin said it was “unbelievable” that Hayley missed her husband overseas and said it was “not genuine” to feel suffocated in his absence.
Saneet Hostin said she wore black on this episode of “The View” to mourn Trump’s victory on Super Tuesday. (ABC)
Later in the same segment, Griffin accused President Trump of being “a uniquely unfit and unscrupulous man,” but also said, “The New York Times’ Siena poll, the ABC poll from before this weekend… “Here we go, he’s beating Joe Biden head-to-head outside.” Is Joe Biden running scared enough? Because he had this quote, like President Trump’s “Only I can fix it,” “I beat him before, I won’t do it again.” He sounded like he was the perfect guy to do it. ‘Are they running scared enough? ”
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“Well, first of all, some recent polls,” Karl said. “FiveThirtyEight now averages all its polls and currently has Trump with a 2 point lead over Biden in national polls going back to Super Tuesday in 2020, just four years ago. , Biden had a 2-point lead. “It certainly starts with the deficit. But first of all, as you all know very well, we have a lot of questions today about how people are going to vote in November. Don’t give too much weight to what the polls show.”
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Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser, Hanna Panreck and Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.
