Charlamagne tha God Hits Back After ‘The View’ Co-Hosts Tried to Bully Him Into Endorsing Biden: ‘Strangest Thing Ever’
Charlamagne tha God criticized the two-party system and urged both Democrats and Republicans to “run better candidates” on Thursday after the co-hosts of The View tried to bully him into endorsing President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign.
“I saw you on The View yesterday where they were trying to zero in on you and Biden and this presidential race, and those ladies really, really, really wanted you to say that you endorsed him,” said Megyn Kelly to Charlamagne on her podcast.
After Kelly asked him why he was so reluctant to endorse Biden, despite revealing that he would not vote for former President Donald Trump, Charlamagne replied, “Simply because, you know, I’m not a fan.”
He explained:
People think that me not wanting to endorse means that I’m not voting, which I think is the strangest thing ever. There was another moment in that conversation where I just said, “Hey, there’s third-party candidates.” Whoopi [Goldberg] told me she’ll beat my behind if I bring up, you know, third-party candidates, so I just think it’s kind of strange where we are as a culture and as a society where it’s almost like there’s either one of two extremes, and if you’re a person who just simply chooses to be objective, simply chooses to look at both candidates and say, “Hey, I think there’s some right things here, there’s some wrong things there, there’s some good things here, there’s some good things over here,” like just me being able to explore both options or all options that are out there, for some reason it bothers people and I don’t understand why.
Kelly noted, “They were really pressing you. They were like, ‘Do Biden a solid!’ They wanted you to go to your audience and say, ‘Vote for Biden,’ and it was very strange. Like, you know, you’ve got some magic wand that’s going to turn this thing.”
“Exactly,” Charlamagne replied, before adding, “I don’t think the two-party system has been the best thing for us here in America.”
He argued, “If these parties want people to be more energized about their candidates, maybe they should just run better candidates. I don’t think it’s rocket science.”
Later on in the interview, Charlamagne told Kelly that while he always knew he would end up doing something interesting with his life, “I didn’t know I would be Captain Save-a-Joe in an election.”
Watch above via The Megyn Kelly Show.
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