It's apparently okay to deny the 2016 election results on 'The View'

My latest at The Week: “The View is apparently struggling to replace panelist Meghan McCain. ‘Sources close to the show said that the search has stalled as executives struggle to find a conservative cast member who checks all the right boxes,’ Politico reported Thursday. What are those boxes? Among them, ‘They will not consider a Republican who is a denier of the 2020 election results … or is seen as flirting too heavily with fringe conspiracy theories.’

"The View" doesn't want to hire a right-wing conspiracy theorist. But maybe they should be more worried about left-wing conspiracy theorists instead, argues @jackhunter74. https://t.co/sfBKjzir1s

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But the producers of The View don't seem to have the same level of concern when it comes to the equally troubling left-wing conspiracies pushed on the show.

As recently as Tuesday, rotating guest co-host and Never-Trump Republican Ana Navarro said during a discussion on the upcoming anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, ‘Look, I felt that Donald Trump had not been legitimately elected. I thought he'd gotten help from the Russians.’ Apparently it is okay to deny presidential election results on ABC's popular talk show — so long as the year under discussion is 2016. “

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