‘The View’ Hosts Blame Sunny Hostin For Harris Losing Election With Viral Question

There’s been some speculation on what cost then-Vice President Kamala Harris the presidential election in 2024. A new theory has come to light involving “The View” cohost Sunny Hostin, Mediaite reported. “Sunny ruined…

Sandra RhodesJun 20, 20253 min read

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Executive producer Brian Teta concurred.

“It wasn’t a gotcha question,” he said, as cohost Sara Haines chimed in, “It shouldn’t have been a gotcha question.”

Hostin continued by explaining asking the “tough questions” is part of their job.

“But I think we ask tough questions because I think our viewers want to hear those answers, right? And Barbara Walters asked tough questions,” Hostin said. “And so I just felt that that’s something that she needed to do, differentiate what a Harris administration would look like, as opposed to a Biden administration.”

And Harris’ answer was not what Hostin expected.

“And she didn’t 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. We’ve been more successful than any other administration in decades. And so I intend to build on those wins but of course I’m gonna be different because I’m a woman of color, I’m child of immigrants, I’m going to, I’m, I am a lawyer, I going to do things differently through the, my life experience,” Hostin said. “But doesn’t that sound like a good answer? Like I just assumed that was the answer and then I didn’t get that.”

Now, as cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out, it became “kind of the moment.”

Hostin replied, “It feels terrible.”

Griffin then tried to put a positive spin on it.

“No, 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 don’t meet the moment,” she said.