Whoopi Goldberg and Meghan McCain got into a shouting match on Tuesday’s episode of The View over Senator Bernie Sanders’ support for giving voting rights to the Boston Marathon bomber.
‘Does anyone think a terrorist should have a right to vote?!’ McCain said during the segment discussing the presidential candidate’s comment.
The daughter of the late Senator John McCain was outraged over Sanders’ comments on Monday, saying they were ‘disgraceful’ and that Republicans should ‘turn that into an ad.’
McCain mentioned her brother’s military service.
Whoopi Goldberg (left) and Meghan McCain (right) got into a heated discussion on The View on Tuesday over voting rights for convicted felons
‘I was upset about it because… if Democrats want to drag everybody this far left, this is why people like me are so upset and so disenfranchised with how extreme this is,’ McCain said.
‘It's not hard to say the Boston terrorist was a psycho lunatic who is a threat not only to national security but shouldn't be allowed the right to vote in any election.’
The View co-hosts, including Goldberg, McCain, and Joy Behar, continued going back and forth on the issue.
At one point, McCain spoke of one of her brothers who enlisted in the military.
‘I'm trying to tell you, what Bernie Sanders said is going to be turned into a clip that will be - it upset me this morning,’ McCain said.
‘Abby [Huntsman] and I - Abby and I didn’t have brothers that served multiple times, and I didn’t watch my brother deployed when he was 19 to fight this crap to have them come here and have the right to vote!’
Goldberg then said: ‘Now, wait, hold on. Let’s be realistic here...The discussion here was if he got out. That was the discussion.’
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont (seen on Tuesday in Cambridge, Massachusetts) said on Monday that he supports granting voting rights to incarcerated felons, including those convicted of serious crimes
‘Then I’m against it,’ McCain said.
McCain said she ‘would appreciate it if Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris said there are true monsters in this world.’
She then accused Goldberg of laughing about terrorism.
‘Maybe you think terrorism is funny, I do not,’ McCain said.
Sanders said he would support giving voting rights to the Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Goldberg, who appeared to be laughing because she was unable to interrupt the segment for a
