"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin criticized South Carolina on Wednesday over Republican Gov.Henry McMaster's appointment of Darline Graham to replace her late brother, Sen.
Lindsey Graham, arguing the state's first female senator lacked the political experience needed to represent its residents in Washington.Hostin branded the appointment an example of diversity-based hiring and nepotism after co-host Joy Behar called Graham's selection "the very definition of DEI.""Correct, correct.It’s everything that the Republican Party stands against.
Everything!" Hostin said."It’s DEI.
Nepotism.All these things thrown in together."LINDSEY GRAHAM'S SISTER CARRIES ON LATE SENATOR'S WORK, BECOMING SOUTH CAROLINA'S FIRST FEMALE SENATOR"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin called Sen.
Darline Graham’s appointment "DEI" and "nepotism" while questioning her qualifications for office.(ABC/TheView)Hostin also attacked South Carolina for reaching the milestone through an appointment rather than the election of a female candidate."She’ll be the first woman to be a U.S.
senator in South Carolina in the history of the state, and I think that that’s just — it’s just fundamentally wrong that South Carolina just couldn’t elect a woman and this is the only way that it was done," Hostin said.The former federal prosecutor questioned Graham's qualifications, referring to her as a certified optician and arguing that her professional background did not prepare her for the Senate.GRAHAM ALLY RIPS 'THIRSTY' REPUBLICANS JOCKEYING TO REPLACE LATE SENATORDarline Graham became South Carolina’s first female U.S.senator after she was appointed to complete the term of her late brother, Sen.
Lindsey Graham.(Grant Baldwin/Getty Images)"I think the experience does matter," Hostin said.
"While she is a certified optician and while she has done great work in that field, I don’t think that she should be representing the people of South Carolina in the U.S.Senate.
I just don’t."Behar agreed ...