Co-hosts of ABC’s “The View” criticized Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday’s show after nearly a dozen members of the party missed Tuesday night’s vote on a resolution to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
Several of the absent lawmakers said they were stuck in traffic or attending other events, explanations that drew pushback from both voters and commentators this week.
“The ones in traffic really annoyed me, I have to say,” co-host Joy Behar said. “I know what time I’m getting somewhere. I have a Waze thing, you ever tried that? Nancy Pelosi, was she one of them?”
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg responded that Pelosi “was doing a veterans event,” as other panelists confirmed Pelosi was among the 11 Democrats who did not appear for the vote.
“But the vote matters,” Alyssa Farah Griffin said.
Sunny Hostin added, “The fact that Haley Stevens didn’t show up was no surprise to anybody,” to which Goldberg quipped, “She probably couldn’t find the train station.”
Sara Haines was more pointed in her criticism of the party. “This was really a self-inflicted wound on the Democrats, and that’s the part that’s frustrating,” she said. “Everyone called, voters, show up at the poll, make your voice known, change, change, change, America showed up at those polls and said, ‘please help us’ and one week later you can’t show up at work. It’s a bad look!”
Haines later said she placed some blame on party leadership for failing to keep members together, “but mostly I blame it on the individuals for not showing up for their work.”
Dan Turrentine, co-host of “The Huddle” and a former Democratic strategist, told Fox News Digital that seven Republicans and 11 Democrats missed the vote. He said such absences are “unfortunately common during a Lame Duck, as some elected’s leaving are done with the place,” but noted that in this case, “most did not plan or intend to miss. It’s embarrassing for the individuals and the party, and a good reminder of the most important aspect of being a representative — voting.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Stevens and Pelosi for comment but did not immediately receive responses.
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