John Kasich had every reason to believe he would be given a free ride on ABC's daytime talkfest The View. And he was greeted that way by host Joy Behar who gushed, "My favorite convert, John Kasich."
After all, the former Republican governor of Ohio had garnered fawning coverage from the mainstream media for his public proclamation of support for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the coming presidential election. In this case, Kasich gave the liberals a much-prized political twofer: Not only was he an important GOP figure switching allegiances to the Democrat banner, but more importantly he was a self-proclaimed pro-life politician endorsing the most stridently pro-abortion ticket in American history.
