The View’s Ana Navarro has called out Newt Gingrich after he criticized a commercial which encourages women to hide their vote for the upcoming US presidential election from their husbands.
The ad, produced by Vote Common Good, a non-profit organization aimed at mobilizing religious voters, suggests that wives of Donald Trump supporters could quietly vote for Kamala Harris.Â
Gingrich, 81, hit out at the advert and said: ‘How do you run a country where you’re walking around saying wives should lie to their husbands, husbands should lie to their wives? What kind of a totally amoral, corrupt, sick system have the Democrats have developed?’ while Fox News host Jesse Watters said his wife lying about her vote ‘is the same as having an affair.’
After watching clips of both men during Friday’s episode of The View, Navarro, 52, decided to have her say and told the panel:Â ‘It’s almost comical, if it wasn’t so serious, it would be comical, is people like Newt Gingrich saying we shouldn’t walk around saying wives should lie to their husbands or husbands should lie to their wives… he cheated on his first and second wife.’
Ana Navarro called out politician Newt Gingrich during Friday’s episode of The View
Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista pictured at the Republican campaign rally in New York City on October 27
The political commentator continued: ‘Look, I have people in my family who call themselves closet Kamala voters, and some because they might be voting differently than their spouses, by the way it goes both ways, some because they’re voting Democrat and they’re Republican.
‘Here’s what I think: we are in America, it’s 2024, we all have the right to vote according to our principles and our conscious and our convictions.
‘We don’t have to explain it to anybody. We don’t have to say it to anybody. You want to keep it private, do. You wanna make it public, do.
‘But this is what Susan B. Anthony, this is what the Suffragettes, this is what all those women over a hundred years ago fought to give us the right to do, to vote however the hell we want to!’ she added as the live studio audience applauded her.
Her cohost Sunny Hostin also shared her thoughts on the commercial and said: ‘It’s a fantastic ad. You know, I think it’s really struck a cord with women across the country, this rhetoric that he’s been using.
‘If you look at the early voting, over 65 million Americans have early voted, predominantly women. Women have indicated that… young women especially… one of the most important issues is reproductive health rights.Â
‘My guess is that Kamala is ahead with women and is going to win this election because of women and because women are going to vote against their husbands,’ the 56-year-old added.
Alyssa Farah Griffin commented too and said: ‘My first reaction honestly when watching this was I couldn’t relate to it at all, because in my marriage my husband respects my viewpoints and if we disagree, I have agency, we can, and that’s fine.
The ad, produced by Vote Common Good, a non-profit organization aimed at mobilizing religious voters, suggests that wives of Trump supporters could quietly vote for Harris
Sunny Hostin (left) and former White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin both praised the advert
‘But I started talking to my producers and talking around… we all know women who are going to vote differently than their husbands, they’re going to keep it quiet. They have shared this with girlfriends and they’re making their husbands think that they might be voting for Trump.
‘I do wanna be fair, I think I have family members who might not tell me THAT they’re voting for Trump, so this goes both ways. But I think there’s something about the gender gap in this election and why Kamala Harris is 15 points ahead with women.
‘I think it works, it’s a smart ad,’ the former White House aide added.
