Caitlyn Jenner Fumbles As 'The View' Hosts Whoopi Goldberg & Meghan McCain Grill Reality Star About Gubernatorial Run, Trans Athlete Ban
June 10 2021, Published 4:50 p.m. ET
Caitlyn Jenner fumbled her way through an interview about her gubernatorial run during a Thursday morning appearance on The View.
Moderator Whoopi Goldberg and hosts Joy Behar, Meghan McCain, Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines pressed the California hopeful every chance they got, but Jenner seemed more interested in bashing the current governor, Gavin Newsom, and the terrible job he's done managing the nation's largest state amid a global pandemic.
In response, Whoopi wondered what Caitlyn would have done differently. She replied by calling out school closures and high gas prices, adding that "Newsom wasn't for the people, he was for the elites."
"I want to bring hope back... Newsom has destroyed hope," she said, without answering Goldberg's question.
McCain later echoed Goldberg's opening query, asking the fellow conservative how she planned to "resuscitate the hundreds and thousands of lives and dreams that have been crushed by Gavin Newsom's inconsistent policies."
Jenner's response was to state that other governors, like Republican Ron DeSantis in Florida, had other ways of doing things.
She also dodged the question about whether her famous family – including the Kardashians – was supportive of her campaign, instead claiming she hadn't received any pushback from fellow Republicans over the fact she's a transgender woman and therefore a member of the LGBTQIA community.