The View hosts took aim at Julián Castro after he attacked Joe Biden’s age during the third Democratic presidential debate.
“Put a fork in it, the campaign is over,” host Meghan McCain said Friday on the show, calling Castro’s attack on Biden a “Trump tactic.”
Joy Behar, who is the same age as Biden at 76, said she and people her age could turn on Castro over his ageism. “I have to question Castro’s intelligence,” Behar said.
“I personally found it cringeworthy,” Abby Huntsman said. “I would say that was probably the nail in the coffin for Castro. I think this is one of the last times you’re going to see him on a debate stage.”
Host Sunny Hostin called the comment “very, very tone-deaf.”
Castro, 44, attacked Biden on the debate stage about his memory.
“Are you forgetting already what you said just two minutes ago? I mean, I can’t believe that you said two minutes ago that they had to buy in, and now you’re saying they don’t have to buy — you’re forgetting that,” Castro said to Biden during the debate Thursday night.
The moment was widely condemned in the media as ageist and ineffective.
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