Who Is Ana Navarro? ‘The View’s’ Toughest Host Takes on the DNC

Ana Navarro, known for her outspoken persona on The View, was announced as the “celebrity” host for the DNC Tuesday night. Critics quickly noted that she was less famous compared to other hosts like Tony Goldwyn, Mindy Kaling, and Kerry Washington.

While Navarro doesn’t have the star power of those who appeared on shows like Scandal or The Office, her history suggests she might deliver the sharpest critique of Donald Trump during the proceedings.

A Nicaraguan-born political strategist and commentator, Navarro is a Republican known for her fierce loyalty to Joe Biden and now Kamala Harris. Before her stint on The View, she was a frequent voice on political television, providing commentary for both ABC News and CNN.

Navarro served as a special advisor to the Government of Nicaragua and was the Director of Immigration Policy for former Florida governor Jeb Bush. Despite her GOP roots, she swiftly denounced Trump after the infamous Access Hollywood tape surfaced in 2016. Since then, she’s supported issues typically aligned with the left, such as gun control and LGBTQ+ rights, and now describes herself as a centrist.

However, it’s not her accomplished background or party-switching that has recently made headlines. With the DNC approaching, Navarro has intensified her attacks on Trump.

After the Republican National Convention last month, Navarro boldly claimed that Biden would have been hospitalized if he had given the rambling speech that Trump delivered. “If Joe Biden had been up there giving that speech, many white coats would have interrupted him and carted him off and put him in a padded wagon,” Navarro remarked. “I thought today I would wake up and the TV would be full of doctors talking about Donald Trump’s cognitive decline.”

Three weeks ago, Navarro took to Instagram to post a nude photo of Melania Trump, taken from a British GQ profile before her marriage to Donald, to defend Kamala Harris from the right’s attacks on her dating history. “Some Republicans are out there making vile sexual remarks about Kamala Harris and wanting to make her dating history an issue,” Navarro wrote. “You want to make this an issue? Bring it on.”

This past weekend, she trolled Trump further by posting a list of “Things I Trust More Than Trump,” which went viral. Her picks included “a movie role from Harvey Weinstein, an invitation to Church from Tom Cruise, [and] dinner with Jeffrey Dahmer.” Faces and names that others deemed untrustworthy were also included, creating a social media storm as people eagerly joined in the trolling.

On the same night that former First Lady Michelle Obama, who coined the phrase “When they go low, we go high” at the 2016 DNC, is set to speak, Navarro could be the one to most forcefully reject that suggestion. “You wanna go low?” Navarro posted alongside her Melania Trump photo last month. “I’m not leaving one thing unanswered this time. Not a one. I’ll happily go 20,000 leagues under the sea.”

Source: The Daily Beast