The View Co-Hosts Call Out Nikki Haley Over Controversial Comments

Sara Haines chimed in with her take on Nikki Haley’s response to the Civil War question, noting that it seemed to show a lot, and none of it good, about Haley when she said that the Civil War query was a “gotcha” question. “This is one of the easiest things you can ask anyone,” Haines said.

Sunny Hostin got particularly passionate as she talked about how problematic she felt Haley’s original response was as well as her trying to walk it back. “You can kiss my grits,” Hostin said. “She didn’t say it [was about slavery] intentionally because 85% of Republicans are white and she doesn’t want to lose those votes.”

She tied it back to Haley’s comments about the Confederate flag when she was governor of South Carolina. In 2015, after Dylann Roof killed nine people in a Charleston church, Haley called for the Confederate flag to be taken down from the South Carolina state house, but in a speech about it, she said, “For many people in our state, the flag stands for traditions that are noble,” via The New York Times. Haley repeated that sentiment in 2019, during an appearance on “The Glenn Beck Program,” when she said some people in the state saw the flag as representing “service and sacrifice and heritage.”