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In addition to the closely watched Pennsylvania Senate debate Tuesday night, the debate between New York gubernatorial candidates Kathy Hochul (D) and Lee Zeldin (R) played out as well. Their comments on crime drew the attention of ABC’s The View on Wednesday and mentally unstable co-host Sunny Hostin took things to a dangerous place when she tried to justify an attempted assassination against Zeldin, citing how “he’s hated” and “divisive.”
The Zeldin bashing began with co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who was shouting about how he supposedly doesn’t have a plan to fight rising crime (while Hochul supposedly does despite the rise happening under her leadership). “What is your plan, Lee Zeldin?!” she shouted.
Goldberg also refused to listen to his plan after conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin offered to give it to her.
Farah Griffin defended Zeldin by noting that he and his family have been victims of the crime wave in New York, including an assassination attempt made against him. “Lee Zeldin was nearly stabbed on stage while campaigning in New York. A bullet came within – ” she began to say before Sunny Hostin interrupted with her justification of the attempted murder.
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