ABC’s “The View” has been having a troublesome time grappling with President-elect Trump’s victory within the days following the presidential election.
Not less than 4 of the co-hosts walked onto Wednesday’s present sporting black as in the event that they had been attending a funeral. And after some expressed their respect for the democratic course of, it did not take lengthy for anger to be unleashed.
“I am profoundly disturbed,” co-host Sunny Hostin mentioned. “I believe if you happen to take a look at the New York Instances this morning, the headline was ‘America makes a deadly selection.’ I believe that in 2016, we did not know what we’d get from a Trump administration, however we all know now. And we all know now that he can have nearly unfettered energy.”
“I am profoundly disturbed that the 14th Modification of the Structure didn’t stop somebody who participated in an rebellion from turning into President of the US,” Hostin later went on. “I am stunned on the outcomes, however I am not stunned as a girl of colour, I used to be so hopeful {that a} blended race girl married to a Jewish man might be elected president of this nation, and I believe that it had nothing to do with coverage. I believe this was a referendum of cultural resentment on this nation.”
Hostin additionally mentioned she was anxious about “mass deportations and internment camps.”
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“I am nonetheless not gonna say his identify,” Whoopi Goldberg mentioned, sustaining her vow to not utter Trump’s identify on this system.
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On Thursday, Pleasure Behar complained about how not solely has Trump gained the White Home however Republicans are poised to carry onto the Home and take over the Senate and conservatives preserve a majority on the Supreme Court docket.
“It is pathetic,” a downtrodden Behar mentioned. “There aren’t any checks and balances. A very clever, certified girl misplaced to a man who was simulating intercourse with a microphone. I imply, come on, America.”
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Hostin clashed with co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who argued that Democrats “missed the second” and misinterpret what the citizens needed.
“Do you assume Republicans missed the second? What a few autopsy on the Republican Get together, the Trump Get together proper now?” Hostin requested.
“However they only swept although,” Griffin responded.
“They gained however they’re morally bankrupt,” Hostin shot again.
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After Griffin highlighted a Texas district that was 97% Latino that was overwhelming gained by Trump, Hostin blamed it on “misogyny” and “sexism,” not the border disaster.
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Goldberg appeared to parrot Vice President Kamala Harris’ suggestion that top costs are usually not as a result of inflation fueled by Biden-Harris insurance policies however reasonably worth gouging from grocery shops.
“Your pocketbook is dangerous, not as a result of the Bidens did something. Not as a result of the financial system is dangerous. Your grocery payments are what they’re as a result of the oldsters that personal the groceries are pigs,” Goldberg insisted.
These feedback reportedly sparked outrage amongst grocers.
Issues obtained even uglier on Friday when Hostin went on a diatribe concerning the nation.
“I believe the extra related query truly is what’s fallacious with America?” Hostin mentioned. “I believe what’s fallacious with our nation that the Republican Get together would select as a candidate and assist a candidate who’s an insurrectionist, who’s an election denier, somebody who’s twice impeached, 34 time convicted felon, somebody who has been accused of alleged sexual misconduct by 26 girls, discovered answerable for sexual abuse. What’s fallacious with this nation that they might select a message of divisiveness, of xenophobia, of racism, of misogyny over a message of inclusiveness, a message for the folks, by the folks of the folks.”
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Sara Haines chimed in, insisting there was a “condescending” tone that got here from Democrats that finally alienated voters.
“That message of pleasure and inclusiveness?” Hostin sniped at Haines.
“No,” Haines responded. “The message of not being educated, being dumb and what’s fallacious with America.”
“The larger query needs to be sure Sunny, why did they vote for him?” Haines advised her bitter co-host.
“Sure, so [Republicans] have to be introspective,” Hostin responded.
“No! We have to be introspective!” Haines shouted again. “If we voted for Kamala Harris, we have to say what did not resonate with the voters. Are you aware what did not resonate with the voters? After they had been saying we do not really feel secure and the left deal with defund the police and bail reform.”
“My level is that they screamed and screamed and screamed. They did not vote for him as a result of he is a racist or a misogynist. They voted as a result of they wanted assist in their on a regular basis lives,” Haines later added.
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Behar jokingly instructed Trump voters would admit to being “racists” and “misogynists” within the exit polls.
“Do you actually assume 74 million individuals are racist?!” Griffin fired again.
Ana Navarro appeared to disgrace girls and minority voters for backing Trump.
“Black folks voted for any individual they know is a racist,” Navarro mentioned. “Latinos voted for any individual they know goes to deport their abuela. Puerto Ricans voted for any individual they know treats them like trash… White girls voted for any individual they know took away their reproductive rights. So all of these issues are onerous for folks like me to grasp.”
The over-the-top hostility notably coming from Hostin could stem from the consequential trade she had with Vice President Kamala Harris final month when she appeared on “The View.”
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Hostin lobbed a softball query to the Democratic nominee, asking, “Would you could have carried out one thing otherwise than President Biden in the course of the previous 4 years?”
“There may be not a factor that involves thoughts when it comes to — and I’ve been part of a lot of the selections which have had influence,” Harris responded.
That response instantly exploded on social media and was seized on by the Trump marketing campaign, making the case that Harris wasn’t the candidate of change and would solely proceed President Biden’s insurance policies. The Hostin-Harris trade was featured in numerous political adverts, possible swaying 1000’s of undecided voters throughout the nation.
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Dana Walden, a senior Disney govt whose portfolio consists of ABC Information, which “The View”‘s manufacturing firm falls beneath, is one among Harris’ “extraordinary pals,” in response to a report within the New York Instances. Walden and Harris have recognized one another since 1994, whereas their husbands, Matt Walden and Doug Emhoff, have recognized one another for the reason that Nineteen Eighties.
ABC advised the New York Instances that Walden, who’s Disney’s highest-ranking tv govt, doesn’t weigh in on editorial selections. She has donated to dozens of Democrats and has contributed to Harris’ political campaigns since at the least 2003.