After Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner won the state's Democratic primary on Tuesday, the co-hosts of "The View" locked horns on Wednesday over whether to set aside concerns about his multiple controversies and support him."When you show me you have so much hate in your heart, that you can literally wipe off full groups of people and you name it, fill in the blank, he has, that Nazi tattoo that he supposedly has covered up and said he didn’t know what it meant, but many ex-girlfriends said he used to proudly call it what it is, a Totenkopf, which is a Nazi symbol," co-host Sara Haines said."He has shown us who he is.""This is the party of MeToo.
Women have made accusations," she continued."They have not been proven yet, but weren’t we supposed to listen and hear them? Literally we are in a time of antisemitism.
The numbers of antisemitic hate and this guy proudly wore a tattoo for years, all the things he’s shown us and we’re going to say, well this time because we might agree with his policy we can turn our heads.I cannot turn my head, and I hope other people will join me."Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said, "He also mocked wounded veterans, he has a bunch of homophobic slurs that have emerged online.
The track record is really bad."'THE VIEW' ERUPTS AFTER HOSTIN DECLARES 'I WOULD HOLD MY NOSE' AND VOTE FOR SCANDAL-PLAGUED GRAHAM PLATNERGraham Platner exults and points during an emphatic primary victory speech that sets him up for a race against Sen.Susan Collins, R-Maine.
(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg)"I know his accuser — I’ve known her for over a decade — who spoke to The New York Times," Griffin continued."I believe her.
I believe it’s very credible what she’s accused him of.He denies it, but we have to care."Griffin concluded that just because Democrats don’t approve of the current administration doesn’t mean they should engage in a "race to the bottom."Meanwhile, co-host Sunny Hostin, who proclaimed last week "I would hold...