ABC's 'Bona Fide News Program' The View Turns into Democratic Party 2028 Struggle Session

Nicholas Fondacaro
July 10th, 2026 2:46 PM

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As the Media Research Center and NewsBusters warned the Federal Communications Commission last month, ABC’s so-called “bona fide news program” The View engages in electioneering to promote Democratic Party candidates over Republicans. On Friday, they wrapped up the week with a struggle session as they tried to figure out which Democratic politician to support for president in 2028. Things got so heated that it devolved into a shouting match and suggestions of putting down minorities.

Near the top of their discussion, when it was still civil, co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar pitch 84-year-old Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Hostin argued that his platform was more relevant than ever as the elder socialist would lead the younger generation (Click “expand”):

HOSTIN: His policies are more relevant now than ever before because we are experiencing this affordability crisis. You know. We need our healthcare to be better. We need our schools to be better. We have the erasure of history going on. So. I think the platform he has always, I think, put forward is very attract to Gen-z, younger voters.

JOY BEHAR: And relevant.

HOSTIN: And quite frankly relevant, because it's Medicare for all, housing as a human right, justice for workers and small businesses, elevate public education -

BEHAR: Education!

HOSTIN: - green new deal, women's rights, support LGBTQ+ rights. I mean, I think his platform is the Democratic platform to move forward.

BEHAR: But that list that you just gave, the right-wing at the moment is calling that communism. Basically.

HOSTIN: Well, it's not!

 

 

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin proved, yet again, that her position as the “conservative” at the table meant absolutely nothing. Instead, she took part in the struggle session by pitching Kamala Harris again. “But my hot take of the moment is the most likely person to be the Democratic nominee is Kamala Harris,” she declared.

“She was great, but she didn’t win one time, what makes you think she’s going to win again?” Behar scoffed.

Things started going down hill from there as Behar shouted over Farah Griffin to her list of Democrats she would vote for. Farah Griffin joked about them just being “generic white [men]” and that’s exactly what Behar delivered:

FARAH GRIFFIN: I find it hard to believe that based on the money she raised, the name I.D. she has, and I don't think the party would pass over her for a generic white man.

BEHAR: I like Jon Ossoff, he’s 39 years old. I like Josh Shapiro, 53 years old.

FARAH GRIFFIN: I love Josh Shapiro. That’s the problem.

BEHAR: Gavin Newsom, 58. And J.B. Pritzker, 61.

 

 

The real shouting match began when pretend independent co-host Sara Haines interrupted Behar’s list to push her generic white guy +, Pete Buttigeig. The rest of the cast started shouting at her for proposing something so stupid and telling her she wasn’t living in “reality” with them (Click “expand”):

HAINES: What about Pete Buttigieg?! What about Pete Buttigieg?! Wes Moore. There are some people that are just like -

(…)

BEHAR: We all love Buttigieg. Are they vote for a gay guy?

HAINES: I am not going to break the party down based on ‘they won't vote for gay white man – woman - I think identity reduces the charisma of the character, the person in front of us.

BEHAR: You're not in reality about the country!

HAINES: Guess what. Guess what.

FARAH GRIFFIN: I don’t think that’s reality.

HOSTIN: That isn’t reality.

HAINES: No, because guess what – no -

FARAH GRIFFIN: I wish that's what we did.

HOSTIN: I wish that that was what this country was about.

[Crosstalk]

HAINES: - sitting around President Obama won and said ‘we're so ready for a black president. No, he blew it out of the park and everyone was like, there we go.

Screaming at Haines on behalf of the more extremist wing of their party, Hostin, who only she’s American politics through a prism of race, lashed out at America and suggested that little has changed in 250 years:

Yeah, and you know what?! And after President Obama you know what we got?! We got Trump! We got a whitelash against a black president! That's what we got and this country - I wish this country after 250 years were beyond identity but we are not. And we need to be realistic and as a Democratic Party we need to win! We need to get this country back on!

 

 

The charges of putting down minorities came from fake Republican co-host Ana Navarro and they were directed at Behar. “Joy, I hate it when I hear you say that it's got to be like a white man because I then feel it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and I don't want that,” she decried.

Behar tried to defend herself, but Navarro tacitly admitted that The View understood that they had influenced how people voted:

BEHAR: I'm not that powerful, Ana.

NAVARRO: No, yeah. But you got - You know, millions of people watch us on a daily basis and you are a feminist. You have fought to break glass ceilings.

HOSTIN: She's also a realist.

NAVARRO: I know but what I'm saying I'm not going to tell little black children or little Latino children or little girls that they can't run and become president one day.

 

 

Navarro continued to grill Behar on why her list only proposed white men (Click “expand”):

BEHAR: I'm not saying that. I'm saying we are in a burning building right now. That's all I'm saying.

NAVARRO: That only a white man can save us from it?

BEHAR: I'm talking about winning. What is this country going to do? What are they really get down to it.

HOSTIN: And what is this country really prepared for?

BEHAR: That's all. The future, it belongs to every child, every color, every nationality. Great.

NAVARRO: But what you're saying is what, the only people that can save us from the burning building is a white man?

With Navarro still fuming from her argument with Behar, Farah Griffin reminded them the other side of the aisle would need to put up their candidate too, who she predicted would be Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“He's forgotten he's Latino. Not saying a damn thing while people are getting deported,” Navarro sneered.

 

 

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
July 10, 2026
11:05:41 a.m. Eastern

(…)

SUNNY HOSTIN: His policies are more relevant now than ever before because we are experiencing this affordability crisis. You know. We need our healthcare to be better. We need our schools to be better. We have the erasure of history going on. So. I think the platform he has always, I think, put forward is very attract to Gen-z, younger voters.

JOY BEHAR: And relevant.

HOSTIN: And quite frankly relevant, because it's Medicare for all, housing as a human right, justice for workers and small businesses, elevate public education -

BEHAR: Education!

HOSTIN: - green new deal, women's rights, support LGBTQ+ rights. I mean, I think his platform is the Democratic platform to move forward.

BEHAR: But that list that you just gave, the right-wing at the moment is calling that communism. Basically.

HOSTIN: Well, it's not!

(…)

11:07:13 a.m. Eastern

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: But my hot take of the moment is the most likely person to be the Democratic nominee is Kamala Harris. In every poll she is still -- it's usually her and Gavin Newsom neck and neck.

BEHAR: I have a list here!

[Crosstalk]

FARAH GRIFFIN: She's usually ahead. Let me just finish.

BEHAR: I have a better list. I love her. She was great, but she didn’t win one time, what makes you think she’s going to win again?

FARAH GRIFFIN: I find it hard to believe that based on the money she raised, the name I.D. she has, and I don't think the party would pass over her for a generic white man.

BEHAR: I like Jon Ossoff, he’s 39 years old. I like Josh Shapiro, 53 years old.

FARAH GRIFFIN: I love Josh Shapiro. That’s the problem.

BEHAR: Gavin Newsom, 58. And J.B. Pritzker, 61.

HAINES: What about Pete Buttigieg?! What about Pete Buttigieg?! Wes Moore. There are some people that are just like -

BEHAR: Wes Moore is good.

HAINES: Wes Moore is phenomenal and this is one of the things I love about him --

BEHAR: We all love Buttigieg. Are they vote for a gay guy?

HAINES: I am not going to break the party down based on ‘they won't vote for gay white man – woman - I think identity reduces the charisma of the character, the person in front of us.

BEHAR: You're not in reality about the country!

HAINES: Guess what. Guess what.

FARAH GRIFFIN: I don’t think that’s reality.

HOSTIN: That isn’t reality.

HAINES: No, because guess what – no -

FARAH GRIFFIN: I wish that's what we did.

HOSTIN: I wish that that was what this country was about.

[Crosstalk]

HAINES: - sitting around President Obama won and said ‘we're so ready for a black president. No, he blew it out of the park and everyone was like, there we go.

HOSTIN: Yeah, and you know what?! And after President Obama you know what we got?! We got Trump! We got a whitelash against a black president! That's what we got -

[Applause]

-and this country - I wish this country after 250 years were beyond identity but we are not. And we need to be realistic –

HAINES: You need a great candidate.

HOSTIN: - and as a Democratic Party we need to win! We need to get this country back on!

(…)

11:10:11 a.m. Eastern

ANA NAVARRO: Joy, I hate it when I hear you say that it's got to be like a white man because I then feel it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and I don't want that.

BEHAR: I'm not that powerful, Ana.

NAVARRO: No, yeah. But you got - You know, millions of people watch us on a daily basis and you are a feminist. You have fought to break glass ceilings.

HOSTIN: She's also a realist.

NAVARRO: I know but what I'm saying I'm not going to tell little black children or little Latino children or little girls that they can't run and become president one day.

[Crosstalk]

BEHAR: I'm not saying that. I'm saying we are in a burning building right now. That's all I'm saying.

NAVARRO: That only a white man can save us from it?

BEHAR: I'm talking about winning. What is this country going to do? What are they really get down to it.

HOSTIN: And what is this country really prepared for?

BEHAR: That's all. The future, it belongs to every child, every color, every nationality. Great.

NAVARRO: But what you're saying is what, the only people that can save us from the burning building is a white man?

[Crosstalk]

FARAH GRIFFIN: We're not running against Donald Trump in the next election and I think the most likely Republican candidate is Marco Rubio, a Cuban American so keep that in mind too.

NAVARRO: He's forgotten he's Latino. Not saying a damn thing while people are getting deported.

(…)

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