Bill Clinton tells “The View” hosts that Democrats 'give up on too many people'
"If you don’t deal with something that’s controversial just because you don’t want to hear it, that’s an insult to voters."
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is calling out the Democratic Party for its failure to engage with voters that might be out of their typical target audience.
While visiting The View on Wednesday, the politician was asked by former Donald Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin what the Democratic Party needs to do to get blue-collar voters back after seeing a portion of them side with Trump in the last presidential election.
“I think one of the things that Democrats sometimes do is give up on too many people because the demographics say they’re not gonna be for us,” Clinton said. “Well, that may be, but if you don’t deal with something that’ controversial just because you don’t want to hear it, that’s an insult to voters.”
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Bill Clinton on 'The View'He equated it to visiting Whoopi Goldberg’s house and refusing to acknowledge a massive pink elephant that was casually sitting in her living room.
“If I stay there with her for two hours and I drink her coffee — and may well have something else to drink — and we have a good time, but I never mention the pink elephant, what’s gonna happen when I walk out of the room?” He asked the Hot Topics table. “She’s gonna think, ‘I thought that guy was my friend. I thought he cared about me. If he had really cared about me, we’d have talked about why in the living daylights I have this pink elephant in the room, right?’ This is a big problem for people who aren’t comfortable with these kinds of conversations."
He added, "We’re always going to have differences. We’re very narrowly divided now on many things, but I think you shouldn’t run away from the tough ones, you should turn into them,” he said. “I think it will help bring us back together. I may be wrong, but that’s what I think.”
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Bill Clinton on 'The View'The 78-year-old also shared how he’d feel if current president Joe Biden issued a preemptive pardon for his wife, Hillary Clinton, after Sunny Hostin noted that the former United States Secretary of State is reportedly featured on a “list” created by Trump’s pick for F.B.I. director, Kash Patel.
“If President Biden wanted to talk to me about that, I would talk to him about it, but I don’t think I should be giving public advice on the pardon power," Clinton said. "I think it’s too… it’s a very personal thing.”
He also expressed his “hope” that Trump wouldn’t take that kind of action against other innocent politicians. “Most of us get out of this world ahead of where we’d get if all we got was simple justice," he said. "It’s normally a fool’s errand to spend a lot of time trying to get even.”
The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.
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