'The View' co-host slams 'blind loyalty' to parties after Karine Jean-Pierre leaves Democrats

The co-hosts of "The View" discussed Karine Jean-Pierre's exit from the Democratic Party connected Thursday and questioned what it means for Democrats moving forward, with 1 slamming "blind loyalty" to parties.

The longtime spokesperson for erstwhile President Joe Biden announced connected Wednesday that she has near the Democratic Party and go an independent. Jean-Pierre besides revealed an upcoming book, "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines," that rapidly raised eyebrows among the journalists who dealt with her successful the briefing room. 

Co-host Sara Haines railed against the tribal "jersey-wearing" authorities of the two-party strategy and praised Jean-Pierre's determination to travel retired arsenic an autarkic arsenic "honest."

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Former White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre joined the co-hosts of "The View" connected March 4th for her archetypal post-White House interview. (Photo by LOU ROCCO/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. via Getty Images)

"I deliberation it's a much honorable governmental take," she said. "I consciousness similar possibly I'm biased arsenic an independent, that everyone should beryllium independent, but the largest radical of voters we person are independents, and I deliberation it's due to the fact that our strategy is truthful simplistic by having 2 parties and assuming anyone fits successful those boxes astatine all."

Haines past addressed a counterpoint to her statement — not being capable to ballot successful superior elections — and noted that 35 of the 50 states clasp either unfastened oregon semi-open superior elections, which benefits autarkic voters.

"I deliberation it's clip for politicians to merchantability themselves wholly to idiosyncratic consuming what they person to offer, and not worrying astir jersey-wearing partisan authorities and tribalism," Haines argued.

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Co-host Joy Behar took contented with Jean-Pierre labeling herself arsenic an independent, doubting that she would ever ballot for a Republican.

Haines clarified her position, explaining that independents thin to thin to 1 broadside oregon the different of the governmental aisle, and adjacent though she has voted Democratic for 25 years, she feels the enactment does not afloat correspond her values.

Haines argued that "blind loyalty" to governmental parties is simply a superior issue, citing the antagonistic absorption she received from Democrats erstwhile she called connected Biden to measurement down owed to his declining intelligence acuity.

Still, Behar challenged her, saying, "Yeah, but you support voting for them."

"I hold to spot the candidates. And if the Republicans ever enactment up a campaigner that I was like, 'That's my person,' successful a heartbeat, I would ballot for them," she said.

Fellow co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in, saying that Haines' instrumentality lone makes consciousness for "what the Republican Party utilized to be," but the "Trump-lican party" makes it a overmuch antithetic concern now. 

She besides argued that astir self-identified independents ballot exclusively for 1 party, truthful erstwhile it comes down to it, they're not genuinely independents, and cited her father's voting grounds arsenic an example.

Hostin argued that astir independents who typically ballot for the aforesaid enactment each predetermination rhythm should state themselves for that enactment truthful they are capable to ballot successful primaries. (Screenshot/ABC/TheView)

Hostin recalled that though her begetter identified arsenic an independent, helium voted exclusively for Democrats for 40 years — until she encouraged him to formally registry arsenic a Democrat to ballot successful primaries.

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Haines contended that Hostin had a "narrow view" of the contented and recalled the antagonistic absorption she received from Democrats erstwhile she called for Biden to measurement down.

"My constituent present is that there's unsighted loyalty," she said. "The 2nd I sat present astatine this table and said I felt President Biden should measurement down, the hatred I got was not from the right. It was from the left. To me, the crushed I'm an autarkic is to say, ‘I telephone ‘em similar I spot ’em. And I anticipation you do, too,’ due to the fact that that's the mode the strategy should work."

Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.