The View co-hosts Meghan McCain calls out sexism in politics: Bernie 'always angry,' female candidates cannot be

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Meghan McCain called out sexism in politics on Friday, in a discussion of whether or not misogyny impacted Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign and led to her dropping out Thursday.
"I think there’s this feeling where you have people like [Amy] Klobuchar, Warren, Kamala Harris… [for whom] gender did really come into play,” McCain remarked.
"The way they’re covered by the media. It’s the way they look, they’re too likable, they’re not likable enough, they’re too shrill, she’s not smart enough, she’s not warm enough. It’s every woman that runs and I think there’s a feeling of exhaustion among a lot of American women," she added.
“When are we going to start treating them like men?” asked McCain. “I’m always hopeful that each election cycle they will and then I’m disappointed that they don’t.”
In a sitdown interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Warren said that she continues to have faith that a woman will be elected to the White House, but that it's going to be "a little longer" before that happens.
"We'll know we can have a woman in the White House when we finally elect a woman to the White House!" she exclaimed.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow shared her dismay with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, who dropped out of the 2020 race after a dismal showing on Super Tuesday, that there might not be a female president in her lifetime.
Sitting in Warren's living room, Maddow told the progressive senator about the impact her withdrawal from the presidential campaign had on women, not acknowledging that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, is still in the race.
"I'd like to ask you about the elephant in the room, which is a conversation you've had a number of ways and you talked about it eloquently today... I think that a lot of women around the country right now feel differently about you dropping out," Maddow began. "You leaving the race feels different. If Hillary Clinton can't win when she gets the nomination and you can't get the nomination and neither can Kamala Harris, and neither can Amy Klobuchar, and neither can Kirsten Gillibrand. I mean, I think part of what's going on today is women around the country are like, 'OK, honestly!' If it's not going to be any of them, let's get real. Is it just that it can't be any woman ever?' Are we just going to run, you know, white men in their late 70s against each other, both parties and that's all we can agree to do?"
Overlooking the election of Barack Obama, she continued, "I think there's a feeling that your campaign ending is very specific to you and it also feels a little bit like a death knell in terms of the prospects of having a woman president in our lifetimes."
"Oh God, please no," Warren reacted. "That can't be right."
"You know what I'm talking about," Maddow said.
"I know exactly what you're talking about" the senator responded. "This cannot be the right answer."
The liberal host and MSNBC's go-to debate moderator went on to admit that she is part of Warren's "stripe."
"I'm 46. I am a professional. I live in New England. I have an advanced degree. You have a lot of people who have a lot of different stripe support you around the country but, like, I'm your stripe," Maddow said to Warren, causing her to laugh. "Like, my marching orders is your bullseye. And as such, I have been hearing all day today from people who I know ... women who are just bereft. They're telling me they can't get off the couch. And these are not people who were working on your campaign or people who are particularly involved in politics, but there is something about your fight and your qualifications and your qualifications indeed in comparison to the people who are still in... it was inspiring and now it feels crushing."
Warren then laughed at Maddow's question when she asked if she was looking to run for president again.
"I have not ruled it out," Warren said.
While some politicians like Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that there is an "element of misogyny" in politics that undermines women like Warren in their bids for the presidency, President Trump had a different point of view.
"I think lack of talent was her problem," he told reporters Friday. "She was a good debater, she destroyed Mike Bloomberg very quickly like it was nothing, that was easy for her. But people don’t like her. She’s a very mean person, and people don’t like her. People don’t want that."
On "The View," Behar said, “In the patriarchy that we find ourselves, a man can be angry, a woman cannot be. Bernie is always angry. I like him very much, he’s a good guy, but he always comes across as angry. Elizabeth Warren can’t come across that way.
“They have similar agendas, the two of them too, and we accept it in him but not in her. … In a normal year without the horror show that’s going on in the White House right now, I think that a woman could have had a better chance, but we are in an emergency situation and we could not take a chance on the misogynists in this country ruining it for a women, and that’s what is happening right now,” she continued. “That doesn’t mean it’s going to happen again. I don’t think it will next time. People are getting smarter.”

Co-host Meghan McCain was in a “put up your dukes” mood Saturday when a GOP congressional hopeful questioned her definition of “hardcore conservative” after she said Elizabeth Warren deserves respect for being a woman getting into the political arena who “fights as hard as” Warren did.
The Twitter exchange was instigated after McCain tweeted a video clip Thursday of Warren suspending her presidential campaign.
“Any woman who gets in the arena and fights as hard as Elizabeth Warren did deserves respect (and I’m a hardcore conservative),” McCain wrote. “It is not an even playing field for us against men and I hope some day it finally will be. She also skillfully nuked Bloomberg from@space in the debates.”
Saturday morning, Josh Barnett, who is running for Congress in 2020 in McCain’s home state of Arizona and a pro-Trump Republican, responded to McCain. “I think your definition of ‘hardcore conservative’ and my definition of it are not the same,” he tweeted.
It took no time at all for McCain to fire back, “Yeah if sucking trumps ass every second, of every day, you’re right, I’m not.”
Barnett tried to explain himself, tweeting, “What I said was not meant to be an ‘attack’ by any means. People always trying to make something out of nothing.”
But McCain, in rare form, shot back again.
“I think you should take a look at how you just manspalined to me my political identity,” McCain wrote. “I am a national conservative co-host of the most watched American daytime talk show. I know who I am and what I believe. I don’t know why this is so threatening to some men such as yourself.”
Just to make sure she was perfectly clear that he was sparring with an Arizonian who, therefore, was a constituent of his, she added, “Also pro tip for you congressional race. There are a lot of conservative women like me in Arizona and across the country…”
And, with that, she dropped the mic.
You can read their exchange below:

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