'The View' suggests Trump opponents' chances of winning depend on him being jailed
The co-hosts of "The View" spent a second day talking about Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), who announced he was running for president on Monday.
Joy Behar called Scott "Professor Positive" by serving as a contrast to Donald Trump, who she said is generally negative and focuses on grievances.
"He's more like Reaganesque, 'Morning in America,'" she described. "He's also hedging his bets. He doesn't go out and say he's not pro-choice exactly, although he did say he would vote for anything they put on the table, the Republicans. So, he's not pro-choice. He's one of these guys, like Clarence Thomas, Black Republicans, who believes in pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, rather than understanding the systemic racism that African Americans face in this country — and other minorities. He doesn't get it. Neither does Clarence. That's why they're Republicans."
Former Trump White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin explained that while she might like Scott, his poll numbers combined with every other non-Trump Republican still don't equal what Trump's current polls are at in the GOP primary.
"I would suggest you need to take him on directly without alienating his voters," she explained.
Behar pointed to Trump's nicknames and that he has several for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) but not for candidates like Tim Scott and Nikki Haley. She said it could indicate Trump is more afraid of DeSantis than the others.
Sara Haines pointed to an interview with Scott in which he was asked if Republican voters want someone who carries a Bible.
"I was going to say, I'd prefer a Republican carrying a Constitution because we've struggled a little bit with some of those things," she said.
While she's not aligned with Scott, she said that the one positive is that he does believe in democracy and that it's something that is too often ignored by the media. She said that she hopes there will be greater coverage given to what she called actual conservatives.
Sunny Hostin noted the question of Scott about whether he would accept the election result and what a "low bar" that is for a candidate.
"One other thing we're not talking about enough, we know that Georgia is probably going to indict Donald Trump in August," Hostin explained. "We know that. We know he's facing these New York cases. I think it's 34 misdemeanor counts. We know that the Justice Department is looking at him. I just can't imagine when it comes to 2024 that he's not either going to be in jail or on trial. So, I think that's something we need to continuously remember."
Goldberg noted that there is no law that prohibits someone from running for president from jail "and wearing an orange jumpsuit. The law allows him to be in jail and be the president. Now, do we need to make some changes?"
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