The View’s studio audience booed Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on Monday after he refused to denounce Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R-FL) feud with Disney and claimed that children are being indoctrinated.
“Disney and Ron have been in a combat zone for a number of months over what I thought was the right issue as it relates to our young kids and what they’re being indoctrinated with. I thought he started off on the right foot on that issue,” Scott told the hosts.
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The senator was immediately met with a chorus of boos from the live studio audience.
Whoopi Goldberg then scolded viewers, telling them, “Do not boo. This is The View. We accept we don’t have to believe everything people say, but you cannot boo people here, please. You cannot do it. Please continue.”
Scott was initially asked by Ana Navarro, “Do you think Republicans are going too far?” specifically in reference to DeSantis and Disney.
“I don’t think that Republicans are going too far, some of the issues that you’re underlining. The truth of the matter is that when you look at what’s gone too far in the corporate culture is, in my opinion, the radical Left making decisions to take stands against issues like the George state election law,” he explained.
“You think Disney is the radical Left?” asked Navarro.
Scott did not answer as to whether he equated the company with the “radical Left.”
“I think protecting our kids from the indoctrination that’s happening in our culture today is an important part of the equation,” he said.
“I’d also go a step further and say, listen, from the radical Left is getting involved from a corporate perspective on a number of issues to include, which was the Georgia state law, which was supposedly the Jim Crow 2.0 and the fact of the matter is when we look at the results of the last election, what we saw was not Jim Crow 2.0. What we saw was an actual record-breaking number of African Americans not only voting, but also succeeding at the ballot box,” he added.
“Do you think weaponizing government against the private sector, against private businesses, for exercising their First Amendment right to say something, to have an opinion, is a conservative position?” Navarro further asked.
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“I do not,” Scott answered. “I think of the fact of the matter is that the First Amendment — every single person should exercise their First Amendment rights. If they don’t like what’s happening with a corporation, stop shopping there.”
The Republican is currently polling at 3% among potential Republican primary voters, per Morning Consult. The front-runner for the Republican nomination is former President Donald Trump, with 56%.
