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===''The View''===
She tried out three times for a co-host spot on the daytime television [[talk show]] ''[[The View (talk show)|The View]]''. After [[Debbie Matenopoulos]] left the show in 1999, Campos competed in an on-air try-out with [[Lisa Ling]] and [[Lauren Sánchez]].{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} Ling was eventually hired. After Ling's departure in 2002,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/every-the-view-cohost-since-the-shows-1997-premiere/|title=‘The'The View’View' Cohosts Through the Years and Why They Left|magazine=[[Us Weekly]]|author=Hautman, Nicholas|date=July 1, 2021|accessdate=October 18, 2021|archivedate=March 25, 2021|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325204520/https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/every-the-view-cohost-since-the-shows-1997-premiere/}}</ref> Campos—who by then held her own "coffee talk" show with other Wisconsin housewives—again competed in a week-long on-air try-out, this time against [[Erin Hershey Presley]] and [[Elisabeth Hasselbeck]].{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} In November 2003 Hasselbeck was hired to replace Ling. In July 2013 when Hasselbeck left ''The View'' to replace [[Gretchen Carlson]] as the female co-host of ''[[Fox & Friends]]'', Campos once again tried out but [[Jenny McCarthy]] was hired to fill the spot.<ref>{{cite web| title = Jenny McCarthy to replace Elisabeth Hasselbeck on The View| url = http://www.13abc.com/story/22842397/jenny-mccarthy-to-replace-eli| publisher = [[ABC News]]| date = July 15, 2013| url-status=dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130908024329/http://www.13abc.com/story/22842397/jenny-mccarthy-to-replace-eli| archive-date = September 8, 2013}}</ref><ref>Rosenblit, Rachel (March 21, 2013). [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/abc-eying-replacements-joy-behar-view-article-1.1294244 "TV & Movies Who will replace Joy Behar on 'The View'? ABC eyes Kathy Griffin, Brooke Shields, Gloria Estefan and others as contenders"]. ''[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]'' (New York).</ref>
 
===Fox News===
On June 21, 2018, during an appearance on the Fox News program ''[[The Ingraham Angle]]'', Campos-Duffy defended the Trump administration's controversial practice of separating immigrant families arrested crossing the US border. Speaking of the facilities where the children were housed, she said, "The detention centers are far safer than the journey that these children just came on, and I will say this...people aren't stupid. I spoke to some African-Americans who say, 'Gosh, the conditions of the detention centers are better than some of the projects that I grew up in.'"<ref name=BusinessInsider/><ref>Levine, Jon (June 22, 2018). [https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Fox-News-Contributor-Black-People-Say-Detention-13016990.php "Fox News Contributor: Black People Say Detention Centers Better Than ‘the Projects That I Grew up In’"]. ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''.</ref><ref name=TheHill>Anapol, Avery (June 22, 2018). [http://thehill.com/homenews/media/393677-fox-news-contributor-black-people-tell-me-conditions-at-border-detention "Fox News contributor: Black people tell me conditions in border detention centers 'are better than some of the projects'"]. ''[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]''.</ref> The comments drew immediate criticism,<ref name=BusinessInsider/><ref name=TheHill/> including from black [[Vox (website)|Vox]] reporter Jane Coaston,<ref name=BusinessInsider<ref>{{cite web|author=Coaston, Jane |date=June 22, 2018|url= https://twitter.com/cjane87/status/1010179450007425030 |title= Which African-Americans?... |publisher= Twitter|access-date= June 22, 2018|archive-date= June 22, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180622215756/https://mobile.twitter.com/cjane87/status/1010179450007425030}}</ref> ''[[New York Times Magazine]]'' writer [[Nikole Hannah-Jones]],<ref name=BusinessInsider/><ref>{{cite web|author= Wells, Ida Bae |date=June 22, 2018|url= https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1010201563242090497|title= Please have these so-called African Americans...|publisher= Twitter|access-date= June 22, 2018|archive-date= June 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622215858/https://mobile.twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1010201563242090497}}</ref> Britni Danielle of ''[[Essence (magazine)|Essence]]'' magazine,<ref name=Essence>{{cite web|author= Danielle, Britni |date=June 22, 2018|url= https://www.essence.com/news/fox-news-commentator-rachel-campos-duffy-immigrant-detention-camps-better-projects |title= Come Again? Fox News Commentator Claims Some Black People Say Immigrant Detention Camps Are Better Than Housing Projects |magazine= [[Essence (magazine)|Essence]] |access-date= June 22, 2018|archive-date= June 22, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180622220136/https://www.essence.com/news/fox-news-commentator-rachel-campos-duffy-immigrant-detention-camps-better-projects}}</ref> and filmmaker [[Ava DuVernay]].<ref name=Essence/><ref>{{cite web|author=DuVernay, Ava|author-link=DuVernay, Ava|date=June 22, 2018|url=https://twitter.com/ava/status/1010203635547025408|title=Girl, bye.|publisher=Twitter|access-date=June 22, 2018}}</ref>
 
In 2017, Campos-Duffy praised Republican congressional candidate [[Greg Gianforte]] of Montana for physically assaulting [[Ben Jacobs (journalist)|Ben Jacobs]], a reporter for ''[[The Guardian]]''. The incident occurred when Gianforte grabbed Jacobs, threw him to the ground and punched him after Jacobs tried to interview him about the Republican health care plan, which Campos-Duffy called "Montana justice".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/10/19/trump-encourages-violence-against-reporters-and-his-supporters-cheer/|title=Trump encourages violence against reporters, and his supporters cheer|author=Waldman, Paul|date=October 19, 2018|worknewspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=May 18, 2019}}</ref>
 
After Joe Biden won the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]] against President [[Donald Trump]], Campos-Duffy claimed that there had been "fraud and shenanigans" in the election.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Baragona|first=Justin|date=December 13, 2020|title=Fox News Host Melts Down Over Trump's Election Loss: 'We've All Been Robbed'|language=en|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-host-melts-down-over-trumps-election-loss-cries-weve-all-been-robbed|access-date=December 15, 2020|archive-date=December 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213155307/https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-host-melts-down-over-trumps-election-loss-cries-weve-all-been-robbed/}}</ref>
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In May 2021 Campos-Duffy was hired as a permanent co-host on ''[[Fox & Friends Weekend]]''.<ref name=USAToday/>
 
On August 22, 2021, Campos-Duffy criticized President [[Joe Biden]] for the [[Fall of Kabul (2021)|Taliban retaking of Afghanistan]], blaming his "mental state" for the event.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fox News' Rachel Campos-Duffy Tries to Blame Jill Biden for Afghanistan Crisis (Video)|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fox-news-rachel-campos-duffy-221055859.html|access-date=August 28, 2021|website=[[Yahoo! News]]|date=August 22, 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref> She also blamed First Lady [[Jill Biden]] by saying that she failed the country by allowing her husband to run for president.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Porter|first=Tom|title=The White House called on Fox News to apologize after a host blamed Jill Biden for the Afghanistan chaos because she let her husband run for president|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-host-claims-jill-biden-responsible-afghanistan-chaos-2021-8|access-date=2021-08-24|website=[[Business Insider]]|language=en-US}}</ref> Jill Biden's press secretary Michael LaRosa, responded the following day, calling the comments "disgusting" and saying that "[Campos-Duffy and Fox News] know better. They can do better and their viewers deserve better. I hope they'll apologize to the First Lady and leave this kind of talk in the [trash] where it belongs."<ref>{{Cite web|title=White House Asks Rachel Campos-Duffy, FOX News to Apologize for Comments About Jill Biden|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/white-house-asks-rachel-campos-170216261.html|access-date=2021-08-24|website=www.yahoo.com|date=August 24, 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Fox News Host Ridiculed For Implying Jill Biden's Somehow At Fault For Afghanistan|url=https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-host-ridiculed-implying-040007611.html|access-date=August 24, 2021|website=[[Yahoo! Sports]]|date=August 23, 2021 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Johnson|first=Ted|date=August 23, 2021|title=First Lady Jill Biden's Press Secretary Wants Fox News, Rachel Campos-Duffy To Apologize Over Comments|url=https://deadline.com/2021/08/jill-biden-fox-news-rachel-campos-duffy-white-house-1234820502/|access-date=August 24, 2021|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|language=en-US}}</ref>
 
On March 14, 2022, Campos-Duffy stated that the United States provoked [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|Russia's invasion of Ukraine]] the month prior, a point with which her co-host, [[Brian Kilmeade]], disagreed.<ref>{{Cite web|title='Fox & Friends' Fireworks: Brian Kilmeade Shoots Down Rachel Campos-Duffy on Russia's Ukraine War |url=https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-hosts-clash-over-u-s-role-ukraine-russia-provoke-war-kilmeade-campos-duffy/|author=Dickey, Josh|publisher=[[TheWrap]]|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=March 15, 2022|access-date=March 17, 2022|archivedate=March 15, 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315165830/https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-hosts-clash-over-u-s-role-ukraine-russia-provoke-war-kilmeade-campos-duffy/}}</ref>
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Campos-Duffy is the national spokesperson for the LIBRE initiative, a non-profit organization<ref name=AZCentral>Campos-Duffy, Rachel (December 4, 2015). [https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2015/12/04/hillary-clinton-hispanics-school-choice/76624568/ "My Turn: No, Hillary, Hispanics need school choice"]. [[AZCentral]].</ref><ref name=MorningJoe>[http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/how-gop-can-help-with-economic-prosperity-94038595878?v=b "How GOP can help with economic prosperity"]. ''[[Morning Joe]]'', [[MSNBC]]. December 17, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2018.</ref><ref>Jordan, Mary; O'Keefe, Ed (April 30, 2015). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conservatives-including-the-koch-brothers-go-after-the-latino-vote/2015/04/30/10732074-101e-4845-936b-77ccd3c45cd2_story.html "Koch brothers make push to court Latinos, alarming many Democrats"]. ''[[The Washington Post]]''.</ref> whose stated mission is to promote ideas about constitutionally limited government, property rights, rule of law, economic stability, and [[free market capitalism]] to the Hispanic community.<ref name=AZCentral/><ref name=MorningJoe/>
 
Campos-Duffy supported [[Scott Walker (politician)|Scott Walker]] in the Republican primary for the 2016 presidential election.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/scott-walker-vows-to-fight-and-win-with-a-conservative-message-for-2016/2015/07/13/52b89224-296a-11e5-a5ea-cf74396e59ec_story.html|title=Scott Walker vows to 'fight and win' with a conservative message for 2016|date=2019|worknewspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>
 
==Personal life==