Former conservatives Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Nicole Wallace, Abby Huntsman, and McCain all allegedly departed the show with allegations of bullying on set from their fellow panelists — and the problems don’t stop there. (McCain famously butted heads with her liberal cohosts to the point where producers sat the ladies down and warned that their on-air feuds were coming off as toxic.)
“The problem is that they bring people on under the mantle that this woman is a conservative when they’re ‘Never Trump,’ so they don’t represent the country,” one of the fill-in hosts anonymously told the outlet.
Insiders close to the Daytime Emmy Award-winning show revealed that in looking for a Republican to join the ladies on the panel, they will not consider anyone who is a denier of the 2020 election results, embraced the January 6th riots, or indulged in the fringe conspiracy theories nor the MAGA wing of the GOP.