The tension on The View reached a boiling point Thursday as co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin clashed over Donald Trump’s recent election victory. With Whoopi Goldberg doing her best to play referee, the conversation spiraled into a heated exchange that left no room for the usual “polite” discourse the show likes to project.
Griffin, a former Trump aide, kicked things off by saying the Democrats missed the mark with Kamala Harris’ campaign, criticizing their focus on abortion rights over issues actually impacting swing voters, like the border crisis. In her words, Democrats were “looking at the micro and not the macro.” But Hostin wasn’t having it, quickly cutting Griffin off to insist that the loss boiled down to “misogyny,” claiming Harris’s defeat had little to do with policy and everything to do with sexism.
And that’s when it got really interesting. Hostin pushed back hard, demanding why Republicans weren’t doing a “postmortem” on themselves. But Griffin wasn’t about to let that slide. She brought up Latino voters in Texas who voted overwhelmingly for Trump despite—or maybe because of—the border crisis that the Biden administration has struggled to address. “It’s on the border!” she said, pointing out that these voters have been pleading for years for someone to take their issues seriously. Yet, Hostin clung to her “misogyny” argument as if repeating it enough times would make it true.
The back-and-forth got so chaotic that Goldberg had to pull her classic “Knock, knock, who’s there?” routine just to cut in, giving viewers a brief break from the escalating argument. However, Goldberg’s comment that grocery prices are high because “the folks that own the groceries are pigs” even raised Griffin’s eyebrow. Whoopi seems determined to blame anyone but the Biden administration for the mess most Americans find themselves in at the checkout line.
The View ERUPTS over messaging to the working-class.
Sara Haines calls out the left’s elitist, condescending attitude, specifically pointing to Hostin.
Hostin says GOP are the ones that “need to be introspective.” Haines shoots back: “No! We need to be introspective!” pic.twitter.com/T832werID7— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 8, 2024
Hostin doubled down the next day, directing her frustration at “uneducated white women” and Latino men who voted for Trump, claiming that this election had “nothing to do with policy” and was all about “cultural resentment.” Dressed in black and lamenting Trump’s win as a signal of “unfettered power,” Hostin painted a bleak picture, even suggesting that she fears for her daughter’s rights under a Trump presidency. She also made the eyebrow-raising claim that Harris’s campaign was “flawless,” which Griffin and many viewers likely found laughable given the election results.
The real kicker? Hostin’s insistence that “uneducated white women” and Latino men, who she seems to think should know better, are responsible for what she sees as a backward step in America. Griffin rightly pointed out that people don’t take kindly to being labeled “uneducated,” but Hostin doubled back with the more sanitized phrase, “non-college educated.” The implication was clear: anyone who voted for Trump is somehow unwise or uninformed.
Sunny Hostin got a rude awakening when her co-host, Alyssa Farah Griffin, confronted her over her degrading remarks about female Trump supporters.
SUNNY HOSTIN: “So why do you think that uneducated white women voted against their reproductive health freedoms? And why do you… pic.twitter.com/FWg3JOAGUe
— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) November 6, 2024
Meanwhile, Whoopi’s refusal to even say Trump’s name—the man who’s now president-elect—added an almost comedic twist to the scene. She called him “the president” but insisted she “won’t say his name,” as if that would somehow change the reality of his victory. It’s like watching a bad rerun of 2016’s post-election meltdowns, with the same old excuses, the same tired labels, and the same refusal to consider that maybe, just maybe, Trump’s policies resonated with real, everyday people.
While Hostin mourned “civil rights” and Griffin made her case for real-world issues like the border, the whole exchange underscored just how disconnected some of the show’s hosts are from what actually matters to voters. If Democrats want to understand why they lost, maybe they should stop blaming voters and take a hard look at the policies—or lack thereof—that actually drive people to the polls.
