Ana Navarro
Role at the time: Co-host of ABC's The View, speaking to Tillis on air
Condemned
Statement summary
On ABC's The View, co-host Ana Navarro told Tillis his book was inconsistent because it lays out why Hegseth and Kristi Noem were unqualified, yet he voted for them.
“I feel you were very inconsistent in this book because, on the one hand, you go through all of the reasons why Hegseth was unqualified. You go through all of the reasons why [Kristi] Noem was unqualified. You kept calling her like an unqualified dog killer, and yet you voted for them.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)'The View' Host Ana Navarro Calls Out Thom Tillis to His Face About Voting for People He Regrets: 'You Keep Doing It!'Paragraphs quoting Navarro's exchange with Tillis on The View, October 5, 2026
Why we used this label
Relative to Tillis's January 2025 vote, Navarro criticizes him for voting to confirm Hegseth despite the reasons he himself gives for thinking Hegseth was unqualified. That condemns the vote. Her point that he keeps casting such votes widens the criticism to a pattern; it does not soften it.