Thursday’s broadcast of “The View” on ABC News quickly spun out of control and into the second day in a row of televised post-election group therapy and coping for the hosts of the show.
The segment began with cohost Sara Haines praising Vice President Kamala Harris for her “inspiring” concession speech — which she did not make on Election Night and waited some 14 hours to deliver — and devolved almost immediately when Joy Behar claimed President-Elect Donald Trump’s win was proof that America’s checks and balances no longer worked.
“This country missed out on [Kamala’s] leadership. This country missed out on the leadership of moving forward, not going back, the leadership of someone that was trying to unify this country,” Sunny Hostin led off.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin suggests Democrats need to do a postmortem and blame Biden: “Why didn’t Biden give her six months or a year to run…there are some macro issues here.” pic.twitter.com/5MiuEYqUpr
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 7, 2024
Alyssa Farah Griffin, who self-identifies as a Republican despite admitting she voted for Harris, was the first to acknowledge that the Democratic Party may have made a few missteps — and she asked whether President Joe Biden, who was effectively ousted from the party’s ticket in late July — should have bowed out sooner.
“Why didn’t Biden give her six months or a year to run…there are some macro issues here,” she said.
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Hostin pushed back, saying that Republicans — who won the Senate in addition to the White House — needed to do some reflecting.
When Griffin pointed out that Republicans had swept the nation, Hostin protested, “They won but they’re morally bankrupt.”
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Hostin, who’s uber-wealthy, claims if Americans feel like things are too expensive and they can’t make ends meet, they fell for “misinformation.” pic.twitter.com/rR707kw31o
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 7, 2024
Hostin then addressed Americans’ concerns about the economy by suggesting that if they couldn’t afford things, it was because they’d fallen for “misinformation.”
Things only got crazier from there, as Hostin reverted to blaming “misogyny and sexism” for Harris’ loss among Latino voters.
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Wanting to talk about “the real stuff,” multi-millionaire, Whoopi Goldberg declares “your pocketbook’s bad not because of the did anything, not because the economy is bad” but because “the folks that own the groceries are pigs!” pic.twitter.com/xoKkKIMtao
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 7, 2024
Whoopi Goldberg weighed in then, saying, “Your pocketbook’s bad not because of — the Bidens did anything, not because the economy is bad … the folks that own the groceries are pigs!”
Goldberg wrapped up the segment by complaining that the United States sent a “terrible message” to children by electing Trump.
