ABC's 'The View' has been home to many political debates in 2024, and One moment Which commentators said influenced voters to turn away from Vice President Kamala Harris on Election Day.
The View hosts have conducted several interviews with prominent politicians and media figures, most of them Democrats, over the past year, including President Biden, Vice President Harris, Governor Tim Walz, Hillary Clinton and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Here's a look at some of the most notable moments from the show in 2024.
Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (center) is photographed in the ABC studio during a break in a taping of “The View” with hosts (L-R) Sarah Haines, Ana Navarro, Whoopi Goldberg, Alyssa Farrah Griffin, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin in New York in October 8, 2024. ((Photo by Charlie Tripalo/AFP via Getty Images))
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1. Sunny Hostin asks Kamala Harris if she would have done anything differently than Biden in the last four years
During a live interview on the show in October, he co-hosted the show Sunny Hostin asked the Vice President If anything, she would have done things differently than President Biden these past four years.
“Nothing comes to my mind,” Harris replied. The moment quickly went viral, with Harris being criticized for not standing out more from the president throughout the campaign.
The vice president said she wants to focus on health care at home, and plans to appoint a Republican to her cabinet during the interview as well. After Harris' loss, political commentators pointed to the vice president's answer to Hosten's question specifically as a reason she lost to Trump.
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said after the election that Harris' failed campaign could be reduced to that extent A moment in “The View.”
President Joe Biden (center) speaks with hosts Ana Navarro (left) and Joy Behar (right) during a commercial break in a live interview on ABC's “The View” in New York on September 25, 2024. ((Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images))
2. Biden joined The View after withdrawing, insisting he was going to beat Trump anyway
President Biden withdrew from the race after a weeks-long pressure campaign from Democrats at the end of July. This came after a disastrous performance in the president's debate against Trump.
He became the first sitting president to join the co-hosts for a live interview on the show. He told the co-hosts that he didn't feel anything Anxiety or hesitation From his fellow Democrats about his candidacy again.
“I never believed the assertions that somehow there was this overwhelming reluctance to run again. I didn't feel that way,” Biden said. The president said he did not withdraw because of pressure from Democrats, but rather after considering his age.
Griffin asked Biden if he thought he would have won in November if he had stayed in the race.
He said: “Yes.” “I was confident that I would defeat Trump, because he is a loser.”
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3. The View co-hosts break down over Trump's win, some go all black after Election Day
Co-hosts of “The View.” They were not happy about Trump's victorywhere Hostin was concerned about “concentration camps” and mass deportations the morning after Election Day.
“I'm very upset,” Hostin said. “I think if you looked at the New York Times this morning, the headline was ‘America Makes a Risky Choice.’ I think in 2016, we didn’t know what we were going to get from the Trump administration, but we know now and we know now that he will have power.” “Almost unrestricted.”
Hostin blamed racism, misogyny and sexism for Trump's victory, bluntly asking in one post-election episode: “I think the more important question actually is what is it that we should do?” What's wrong with America?
She continued: “What is wrong with this country in which they choose a message of division, xenophobia, racism, and misogyny over a message of inclusivity, a message for the people, by the people, for the people?”
While her co-host tried to push back on the idea that racism and misogyny were part of the reason Trump won, Hosten insisted It was her “lived experience.”
“As a country, it's very hard for people to believe that racism and misogyny are still alive and well. I think we don't want to think that about ourselves, or our neighbors, or our friends, but — my life as I've lived it,” experience tells me it still is. “It exists, even if your life experience doesn't tell me it does, and you know, the facts support it,” Houston began, pointing to a graph showing a “clear racial divide” in who voted for Trump rather than who voted. In favor of Harris.
The day after Election Day, Houston, Behar, Ana Navarro and Griffin — who announced she would support a Democratic candidate for president for the first time in her life — appeared to be wearing black.
Goldberg and Sarah Hines didn't wear black.
4. The hosts call on Biden to pardon Hunter, insisting he did not lie when he issued the pardon
Hostin and Navarro proposed to the president to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, days before the president made the official announcement.
They argued that if Trump, a “convicted felon,” were elected to office, the president should pardon Hunter.
After Biden issued the pardon, co-host Alyssa Farrah Griffin accused the president of lying, because he repeatedly pledged not to pardon Hunter.
The other hosts disagreed, Whoopi Goldberg told Griffin To stop calling her a liar.
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5. Sunny Hostin accuses black author of being a “charlatan” and “pawn” of the right
Houston Coleman Hughes, a black author who frequently appears on CNN as a political commentator, was accused of… He is being used as a “pawn” by the Republican Party During a controversial interview in March.
Hughes, author of “The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Color-Blind America,” joined the “Viewpoint” co-hosts to discuss the book, which he said argues that everyone should do their best to “treat people without discrimination.” Regarding race.”
“Your argument about colorblindness, I think it's something that the right has co-opted, and many in the black community, if I'm being honest with you, because I want to be, believe that you're being used as a pawn rightfully and that you're a charlatan of sorts,” Hostin said.
“I don't think I was chosen by anyone. I've only voted twice — both for Democrats. I'm an independent,” Coleman said. “I'll vote for a Republican — and maybe a non-Trump Republican if they're convincing. I don't think there's any evidence that I was chosen by anyone and I think that's a personal tactic that people use to not deal with it.” “In fact, the important conversations we're having here.”
6. The View co-host Joy Behar says she was leaking after Trump's conviction
After Trump was convicted last May of 34 counts of falsifying business records to hide $130,000 from Stormy Daniels in 2016, The co-hosts were thrilled.
“I felt like America won,” Hostin said. “I felt like New York won. I felt like the Manhattan District Attorney's Office won. I felt like I won.”
“I was so excited, I started leaking a little bit,” co-host Joy Behar said upon hearing the news.
7. Whoopi introduces Kamala Harris as “the next president of the United States”
When Harris joined the show's co-hosts in October, Goldberg confidently introduced Harris as the actor “The next president of the United States.”
“It's so amazing, I mean I remember when Obama was running and my mother said to me, 'I never thought in my life I would see a black man run and win,'” Goldberg said, before referring to Donald Trump's “Black Jobs.” comment.
8. Sunny Hostin accuses Nikki Haley of being unreal and faking her feelings for her husband who is abroad
The ABC talk show played a video of Haley chokes While speaking to a crowd about her husband, who deployed to Djibouti in 2023 as part of the South Carolina Army National Guard. Haley's voice began to shake as she said, “I wish Michael were here today. I wish our kids and I could see him tonight, but we can't.”
Hostin argued that Haley was “fake from day one” after watching the clip.
After criticizing some of Haley's statements about Trump, Hostin reiterated that she was also specifically referring to the moment Haley became emotional while talking about her husband. She said: She didn't think it was real.
“I think there's something that military families go through. I come from a military family like a lot of us do, and I don't trust the authenticity of it,” Houston said. “No, it didn't feel authentic, and I didn't trust it.”
9. The co-hosts angrily suggested Biden not “lower himself” to debate Trump
Months before the June debate that ultimately led to President Biden's withdrawal from the race, Joy Behar, an ardent admirer and supporter of the president, was confident that He will “wipe the floor” with Trump.
“Why does Joe Biden have to lower himself to be on the same stage as this criminal, this 91-time accused sexual harasser, accused sexual assaulter? Why? Why?” – Bihar asked.
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked why Biden suddenly needed to prove himself after Trump asked him to debate. “He snapped his finger, and now Joe Biden has to prove to everyone that he's up for the job?”
Co-host Sunny Hostin warned that “Donald Trump better be careful,” as she said Trump lost the 2020 debates to Biden. Behar interjected and said: “Trump is worse now. He can't put together a sentence.”
10. Jill Biden tells “The View” that Joe Biden’s poll numbers will change
First Lady Jill Biden He also sat down with the co-hosts in May 2024.
“Consistently, we're seeing poll after poll showing Trump beating your husband outside the margin of error, when in fact, last time in 2020, Joe Biden was beating him in almost every poll. How do you turn those numbers around? With five months to go, are you afraid of what a second Trump term might look like? asked host Alyssa Farrah Griffin.
The first lady said the Biden campaign is reaching everyone it can reach.
She added: “Joe has been traveling as much as possible. We will not take anything for granted. The polls will turn, I am sure of that.” “I believe Americans will choose good over evil.”
