‘The View’ co-hosts debate whether AOC is too progressive after losing Oversight bid: ‘The devil is in the details’

The co-hosts of “The View” debated Wednesday whether Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was very progressive as she lost her bid to retain the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.

“She’s been demonized as a very progressive, leftist person, and I want to try to set the record straight because if she’s too progressive, then the Democrats are really going to lose the working class, because that’s her platform.” co-host Sunny Hostin said.

“The main issues: health care for all people. Affordable housing, union rebuilding, the federal job guarantee, free public college… If that’s too progressive for this country, then that’s a problem for the Democrats, and that’s a problem, frankly, for this country.”

Rep. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., who is 74, defeated 35-year-old Ocasio-Cortez by a 131-84 vote on Wednesday, in part because of the influence of 84-year-old former Speaker Nancy. Pelosi, D-Calif.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back against Hostin and said “the devil is in the details,” noting that Ocasio-Cortez supported the far-left Green New Deal.

“A lot of this country doesn’t support, for example, the Green New Deal, which would actually crush jobs all over this country,” Griffin said. “It would actually make international travel impossible because of some of the rules that would be in place.”

Hostin insisted the Green New Deal would create “millions of jobs”.

“Universal health care, of course you should have, anyone who needs emergency coverage, people should have catastrophic coverage, but most Americans want to have a choice and optionality in their health care. There’s a reason Obamacare didn’t have the public option. Most of the country is not here. I would argue that the AOC is definitely too much left for most of the country,” Griffin said.

Co-host Joy Behar said she supported Ocasio-Cortez and that she reminded her of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The co-hosts also talked about how the Democratic Party should move forward after Trump’s victory.

Co-host Sara Haines echoed an op-ed by Rahm Emmanuel in the Washington Post, arguing that Democrats are telling people what to care about instead of listening to what they actually care about.

“Democrats often tell people what to care about instead of listening to what they really care about, because he goes on to say that they focus on issues like crime, immigration, homelessness and then cite statistics, while there’s an increase in carjackings and you need to close the deodorant at CVS,” Haines said.

Hostin then called to say, “crime is down.”

“You’re making my exact point here,” Haines said. “Whenever people show statistics, they all say crime is a problem, and it doesn’t make them feel any better when you say, ‘but it’s not.’