Season 29 of ABC’s The View came ended last week amid an ongoing battle with the Federal Communications Commission over their purported status as a “bona fide news program,” which called into question their bias, their content, and their adherence to the so-called equal time rule for political candidates. Compared to a previous long-term study of The View’s guests, a new NewsBusters study discovered the number of guests to express a conservative political opinion more than doubled… to five, compared to the 87 guests to express a liberal one.
"The View’s 87-5 guest ratio proves the show is not diverse at all. It’s a Democrat Socialist Party infomercial," Media Research Center President David Bozell said.
For the entire run of Season 29 (September 8, 2025 - July 24, 2026) The View interviewed a total of 321 guests.
Of the 87 liberal guests, 16 of them were Democratic politicians: former Senator Joe Manchin (WV), former Vice President Kamala Harris, two appearances by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani before and after he was elected, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senator Bernie Sanders (VT), Senator John Fetterman (PA), Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (TX), Congressman Jim Clyburn (SC), Governor Josh Shapiro (PA), Texas State House Member James Talarico, Governor Andy Beshear (KY), Senator Cory Booker (NJ), former politician Rahm Emanuel (IL), Senator Chris Murphy (CT), and former First Lady Jill Biden.
The View also welcomed two of the liberal Supreme Court Justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, as well as former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
The show was also a gathering place for the liberal media elite: Jon Karl (ABC), Scott Galloway, Abby Phillip (CNN), Stephen A. Smith (ESPN), Ken Burns, Don Lemon, Martha Raddatz (ABC), Maggie Haberman (NYT), and Jonathan Swan (New York Times).
Liberal comedians got a lot of love too: Hasan Minhaj (twice), Leslie Jones, Sarah Sherman, Matt Friend, Amber Ruffin, Taylor Tomlinson, Chelsea Handler, Ismael Loutfi, Kathy Griffin, and Wanda Sykes, to name a few.
The left-wing of the Hollywood crowd was also well represented, here’s some of the more prominent names: America Ferrera, Henry Winkler, Ethan Hawke, Jamie Lee Curtis, Noah Schnapp, Morgan Freeman, Nathan Lane, Stephan Lang, LeVar Burton, Sigourney Weaver, RuPaul, and Molly Ringwald.
Then there were the five conservative / right-leaning guests: Actress Cheryl Hines, former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt, Trump attorney Alina Habba, and Vice President J.D. Vance.
As NewsBusters noted in our 2025 guest examination (which included the latter half of Season 28 and the first half of Season 29), the first two right-leaners come with asterisks next to their names.
The first one wasn’t invited on until over a month into Season 29: actress Cheryl Hines. Despite being there to hawk her own book, Hines was married to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and having her on was a way for them to beat up on him via proxy. While having left-wing politics herself, she was forced to defend her husband’s - and by extension the Trump administration’s - policies, thus she was counted as right-leaning.
The second conservative, was former Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was the first GOP politician who was then-currently in office The View had hosted since New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu was on in August 2024. As NewsBusters reported at the time, they only had Greene on because she was being a headache for Congressional Republican leadership during the government shutdown. The cast also tried to recruit her to become a Democrat.
Greene made a total of three appearances in Season 29 (the most of any individual), but she was only counted as a right-winger in one of them. In her first appearance, she stuck up for the Trump administration as the cast tried to get her to turn on him.
However, her second two appearances occurred after she had left office and was openly attacking Trump and Republicans in Congress. This meant she would be counted as a liberal since she was pushing their arguments against the right.
Not included in the guest count total were the guest co-hosts who filled in for “conservative” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin while she was on maternity leave. They were excluded because they were on the show as co-hosts and not purely as guests.
For the sake of completion, those women were Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Sara Eisen, Savannah Chrisley, Amanda Carpenter, Abby Huntsman (who whiffed when asked about her conservative values), comedian Sheryl Underwood (who would later fill in for Joy Behar), and comedian Whitney Cummings (who called herself a “life long progressive” and suggested President Trump was sending child soldiers to fight Iran).
During the same show they grilled Hines, Behar claimed that Republicans wouldn’t go on the show because “they’re afraid of us.” This statement led to a slew of prominent conservative influencers, journalists (including NewsBusters), and politicians coming forward with evidence of the show either rejecting or ignoring their appearance requests (including people they had on previously).
The View cast responded on their podcast by suggesting most conservatives didn’t live up to the “certain caliber of guest” they felt the show demanded, that they only wanted to speak to the people they talked about on the show.
One of the notable conservatives they refused to have in Season 29 was The Daily Wire’s Isabel Brown, who they attacked and smeared because she had encouraged women to get married and have kids.
Brown reached out to The View to see if they would allow a conversation with her on their show. They rejected her request and lied to her about being booked up for weeks, while they continued to attack and smear her.
So much for wanting to speak with the people they talk about on the show. But The View had an answer to that too.
Farah Griffin basically admitted they didn’t want guests who would actually push back, call them out, and embarrass them.
ABC and The View did not respond to a request for comment.
Methodology: For a guest to be counted as either liberal or conservative, they needed to express such views during their appearance on The View. If a celebrity did not discuss politics, they were not included in the count of political leanings even if they had a history of being outspoken in the past. For example, actor Robert De Niro had a history of speaking out against President Trump, but was not included in the liberal count because politics did not come up.
