Thereâs been some speculation on what cost then-Vice President Kamala Harris the presidential election in 2024.
A new theory has come to light involving âThe Viewâ cohost Sunny Hostin, Mediaite reported.
âSunny ruined it! Itâs Sunnyâs fault she didnât win!â cohost Joy Behar said, referring to when Hostin asked the Democratic nominee a question comparing her to former President Joe Biden when she was on the show.
âWould you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?â Hostin asked.
Harrisâ response was a little bland with her saying, âThere is not a thing that comes to mind.â
Hostin as well as others on the panel discussed the fateful question on this weekâs âBehind The Tableâ podcast.
Hostin said she did not think the question was particularly hard and something Harris would have expected.
âI knew it instantly when she answered it, which is why I asked the follow-up question, is â there one thing?â she said. âYou know, because I knew, I just, I could see the sound bite and I knew what was going to happen, but I thought it was a really fair question and I thought that it was a question that she would expect.â
Executive producer Brian Teta concurred.
âIt wasnât a gotcha question,â he said, as cohost Sara Haines chimed in, âIt shouldnât have been a gotcha question.â
Hostin continued by explaining asking the âtough questionsâ is part of their job.
âBut I think we ask tough questions because I think our viewers want to hear those answers, right? And Barbara Walters asked tough questions,â Hostin said. âAnd so I just felt that thatâs something that she needed to do, differentiate what a Harris administration would look like, as opposed to a Biden administration.â
And Harrisâ answer was not what Hostin expected.
âAnd she didnât have the answer that I expected. I expected her answer to be something like, we have won, we have this win, this win, this win, this win. Weâve been more successful than any other administration in decades. And so I intend to build on those wins but of course Iâm gonna be different because Iâm a woman of color, Iâm child of immigrants, Iâm going to, Iâm, I am a lawyer, I going to do things differently through the, my life experience,â Hostin said. âBut doesnât that sound like a good answer? Like I just assumed that was the answer and then I didnât get that.â
Now, as cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out, it became âkind of the moment.â
Hostin replied, âIt feels terrible.â
Griffin then tried to put a positive spin on it.
âNo, it speaks to how⌠You are in the history books. Speaks to how relevant this show is, though. It is where presidential candidates come and make their way or they fail and donât meet the moment,â she said.
