When ABC News program The View went on their summer hiatus back in July, the show made headlines because of a NewsBusters study exposing how they had ZERO conservative or pro-Trump guests on to share their political views. Now that the show was set to return for their 29th season, their first batch guests seemed to show they didn’t learn their lesson. In fact, they appeared to be doubling down on what they did the previous year and start things off with a far-left liberal activist justice.
For their first episode of the season on Tuesday September 9, according to the ticket request page 1iota, the liberal ladies would be welcoming far-left liberal activist Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. This may seem a bit like déjà vu since The View kicked off Season 28 with far-left liberal activist Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
During Justice Jackson’s appearance, they pressed her on then-President Biden’s desire to pack the Supreme Court with more liberal activist justices, teed her up to boast about then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, and spread misinformation about the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.
The first politician The View spoke with last season was Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D). This time around, the first politician would be former West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin.
In the first half of 2025, The View had on 102 guests to discuss politics and all of them were liberals. The NewsBusters study also found that the last time The View had a Republican on the show to discuss politics was in August of 2024 near the end of Season 27, with former Governor Chris Sununu (NH).
1iota also showed that they were planning to have Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon on the show. McKinnon had infamously parodied two-time presidential flunky Hillary Clinton and even sung a song lamenting her lose to President Trump.
So far, it didn’t appear that The View was planning to bring on any conservatives to have a real conversation or debate.
In comments made earlier in the year, moderator Whoopi Goldberg made it clear that the show was meant to be a vector to get Democratic talking points to the public. During a March 4 appearance on the show by sports commentator Stephen A. Smith, Goldberg argued with Smith about the Democratic Party’s efforts in messaging themselves to voters in 2024. She defended The View’s role in that effort:
SMITH: [Y]ou're talking about what he's doing. But before you brought that up you brought up the message that the Democratic Party was disseminating. I'm challenging you on that. That is not what they were doing.
GOLDBERG: Oh, yes, it was. I was here. We did it.
When teeing up a March 18 Hot Topics discussion about the future of the Democratic Party’s leadership and responding to comments by Gov. Tim Walz (MN), Goldberg said: “I don't know if you can wait for somebody to step up and lead the party. [Walz] is not wrong when he says the party is us and what are we going -- what are we prepared to do?”
The View’s rhetoric against Republicans didn’t make it an appealing place to want to visit even if they were invited.
