‘The View’ stars clash as Sunny Hostin says misogyny led Latinos to vote Trump

The ripple effects from the 2024 presidential election have arrived The view‘s Hot Topics table.

Co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin engaged in a slightly heated debate Thursday during their post-election analysis (watch in the video above), with Hostin challenging Griffin’s assessment that the Democratic Party was out of touch with what most Americans — who voted against Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday – appreciated when they went to the polls.

Griffin, who previously worked under Donald Trump in the White House before resigning and speaking out against him, cited the “cost of living” as one of the biggest concerns for rural Americans, although Hostin challenged her by estimating that many people were “bombarded with misinformation” and did not have a clear understanding of real problems as a result.

“This issue of abortion that I hope we can unpack more, there are a lot of women who were concerned about abortion, but they were in states like Pennsylvania where they don’t have an ultra-restrictive abortion law,” Griffin said. “They voted more because pocketbook issues matter more than if a woman in Alabama is able to get an abortion.”

Hostin cut in to tell her colleague that such women “are going to be worse off under a Trump administration” because “the only people who are going to do well are millionaires and billionaires” in the end.

“Finally, we talk a lot about these different demographics and assumptions about where they want to go, Latinos in Texas, a district that’s 97 percent Latino went 75 percentage points for Donald Trump. Why?” Griffin asked, just before Hostin said “misogyny” was to blame.

“No, it’s borderline!” Griffin said, raising her hands in front of her. “The border crisis is right on their doorstep and they told people to worry about it for years and we need to learn some lessons.”

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Hostin doubled down, telling her fellow panelist that “misogyny and sexism” was the takeaway.

“The lessons are not misogyny and sexism!” an annoyed Griffin replied, prompting moderator Whoopi Goldberg to cut both stars off.

“Knock knock, who’s there? Oh my god, it’s Whoopi!” Goldberg said, breaking the tension as the crowd laughed and Griffin issued a brief apology.

One day after the election The view cohosts urged their audience to accept the results and promised that the Democratic Party would ensure a peaceful transition of power.

“My takeaway is that the system works. We live in a democracy. The people spoke. It was what the people wanted. I strongly disagree with the decision that the Americans made. But I feel very, very hopeful that we have a democratic system in this We should appreciate it, we should love it, we should protest if that situation arises that we have to protest – which I’m sure it will, Joy Behar said. “It’s been a lot hard but boy oh boy do we have one country if we can keep it.”

Griffin and Hostin have memorably sparred on the show in the past, with the former even calling Hostin’s approach to an on-air debate in June 2023 a “disgrace.”

“Well, Sunny likes to make it personal with me,” Griffin said at the time. “Will you give me a chance to answer? I mean, this is absurd. This is not what this show is about. This is Barbara Walters’ legacy, let a woman speak!”

The view sent weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC. Watch Hostin and Griffin clash in the video above.