Inside The View's prolonged search for a new conservative host

Hosts from The View.
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It's been months since Meghan McCain left The View, and producers have yet to settle on a permanent Republican replacement, much to the other panelists' displeasure. But the show can't move forward with guest hosts forever, so ... what's the hold up?

According to sources close to the program, the host search has "stalled" because executives have yet to find a "conservative cast member who checks all the right boxes," Politico reports. The chosen Republican voice can't be a denier of the 2020 election results, a Jan. 6 sympathizer, or someone who "is seen as flirting too heavily with fringe conspiracy theories or the MAGA wing of the GOP." At the same time, however, the new host must have "credibility" with mainstream Republicans.

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.