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 it! It’s Sunny’s fault she didn’t win!” 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.
“Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” Hostin asked.
Harris’ response was a little bland with her saying, “There is not a thing that comes to mind.”
Hostin as well as others on the panel discussed the fateful question on this week’s “Behind The Table” podcast.
Hostin said she did not think the question was particularly hard and something Harris would have expected.
“I knew it instantly when she answered it, which is why I asked the follow-up question, is — there one thing?” she said. “You 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.”
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.
