Ana Navarro Defends Republican Status After Sunny Hostin Grills Her on ‘The View’: “Do You Piss From Inside the Tent or From Outside?”

Sunny Hostin had a lot of questions for Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin on this morning’s episode of The View. During a conversation about whether the country could benefit from a third political party, Hostin took to asking her Republican co-hosts if they find themselves “complicit” for remaining in the party, despite them both being outspoken against Former President Donald Trump.

At the end of the first segment, Hostin pointed out a research showing that 80% of Republicans consider Trump to be the leader of the party, going on to call it “a party of white supremacy, it’s a party of fascism, it’s a party of all the things that are counter to our democracy.”

She turned to Navarro, telling her she can’t understand how a Latina woman who left Nicaragua could still consider herself a part of the Republican Party, to which Navarro said, “When I came to this country, the Republican Party was the party that stood up against communism and that is something that’s ingrained in me.”

When the conversation continued after a commercial break, Hostin asked her co-hosts, “If you remain in the Republican Party given what you’ve seen, given what you know, are you complicit? And is it better to leave the party and become an Independent?”

Navarro immediately jumped in to counter the statement.

“I don’t think you’re complicit. I’m a registered Republican, I donate to Democrats who I think are better, I campaigned for Biden, I argue and call out the people who have lost their principles and who I think have lost their way in defending what I think are Republican values,” she said. “The question is: do you piss from inside the tent or from outside?”

Hostin noted, “I truly think you piss from outside,” before turning to Griffin and saying, “I mean you certainly were complicit. You worked there.”

The former White House staffer, who seems to be getting used to sparring with Hostin, posed her own question.

“Wouldn’t you rather have someone like Ana trying to reform the party from within?” she asked her co-host. “There’s going to be a Republican Party whether you want there to be or not so wouldn’t you want someone who’s sober-minded and sound and who’s more aligned with you?”

However, an unmoved Hostin said, “I don’t think that’s going to affect the strategy.”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.