‘The View’ Co-Host Alyssa Farah Griffin Reality Checks Sunny Hostin After She Calls Kamala Harris ‘A Moderate’

“The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin reality checked fellow co-host Sunny Hostin after she called Vice President Kamala Harris a “moderate” on Friday.

Harris was voted second only to Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders as the most liberal senator in the 116th Congress by the nonpartisan organization GovTrack, which tracks lawmakers’ voting records. After Hostin referred to Harris as a “moderate,” Griffin went through her policy records and platform during the 2020 presidential primary race.

“Republicans are trying to frame her as this deep leftist,” Hostin began. “She’s a former prosecutor. She’s not only a former prosecutor, she was the AG of the largest Department of Justice in the country other than the real Department of Justice. Prosecutors are not really leftists, they put people in jail for a living, okay? They’re pretty moderate. I know the vice president personally—she is not—she’s moderate.”

“Can I respond to that?” Griffin interjected. “I think the point is that in 2020, she ran in a moment where she ran to the left.”

Griffin pointed to Harris’ support of bail funds to release those participating in the Black Lives Matter riots. Griffin then argued Harris is moving to the center as she prepares to run in the general election.

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“One example was this is the moment of George Floyd, the country’s torn apart, and she put out a statement saying she wanted to bail out people who were protesting in the streets. So people took that a certain way, they felt like she was running to resonate in that primary unlike someone like Biden would,” Griffin added, after receiving pushback from her fellow co-hosts.

Harris has received criticism for handing down harsh sentences for nearly 2,000 people