The ladies of The View have never been the brightest. But this is just ridiculous.
And now The View endorsed a crazed, scandal-ridden Democrat.
She Called Him A Liar, A Racist, An Anti-Semite, And A Homophobe. Then She Said She’s On His Side.
The View has given us a lot of television over the years. Monday’s episode may have delivered the most clarifying sixty seconds of any of it.
Co-host Sunny Hostin sat at that table and, without apparent irony, described the Democrats’ presumptive Senate nominee in Maine as follows: “He’s a liar, a racist, an anti-Semite. He’s a homophobe.” She then explained, with equal calm, that she still supports his candidacy because Democrats need to win back Congress.
Let that sit for a moment. Not a conservative opponent saying these things about Graham Platner — his own would-be supporter, on a platform devoted to progressive politics, in front of a studio audience that was presumably not cheering.
“So he has all the things and character does matter,” Hostin continued. “But we have someone that has almost unbridled power in the White House at this point. There are no checks and balances and the only way that we can maybe bring a bit of our democracy back is by having a Congress that functions and that has these checks and balances. And I do think one of the only ways is to win that seat in Maine.”
This is the Democratic Party’s Platner problem reduced to its purest form: a co-host of a progressive daytime talk show calling a Senate candidate a racist antisemite on television and explaining why she supports him in the same breath.
What The Rest Of The View Had To Say
Hostin was not entirely alone on Monday’s panel — but the contrast with her colleagues was notable. Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin declined to take the same road.
“To be honest, his s-xting is the least of my concerns with this guy,” Griffin said, offering a full accounting of the Platner file: “Graham Platner trashed a Purple Heart recipient, said he didn’t deserve to live, defamed fallen Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, downplayed how hard it is to report s-xual assault in the military, repeatedly used anti-g*y slurs and homophobic posts as recently as 2021, called himself an avowed communist, and has a N*zi tattoo for 20 years that he’s since covered up.”
Her conclusion: “This guy just seems like a guy of not very good character, and there are a lot of options in this country. And by the way, there are other paths for Democrats to win.”
Co-host Sara Haines was equally direct. Speaking about Platner’s deleted post suggesting that a wounded veteran who took fire to save his team “should have died,” Haines said: “If you were capable of saying that at any time in your life, you’ve shown me who you are, and I heard you.”
“This man should be nowhere near Congress,” she said.
That is two co-hosts of the same progressive program drawing the same conclusion that virtually every honest analyst has drawn since this candidate’s file began to open. The fact that Hostin can hear those arguments, acknowledge them, and then pivot to electoral calculus is not a personal failing — it is a window into the machine logic that is driving the Democratic Party toward a nominee that their own supporters describe as a liar, a racist, and an antisemite.
The Logic — And What It Costs To Follow It
Hostin’s argument is not without a certain internal consistency. Democrats need the Maine Senate seat to have any real chance at a congressional majority. Platner was the frontrunner before the s-xting scandal broke, and he may still win the primary. The math is the math.
The cost of following that math is also the math. Republicans will put Hostin’s Monday monologue on television from now until November in every competitive district where suburban women are a swing vote. The party that has spent years claiming the moral high ground on racism, antisemitism, and misogyny will have its most prominent daytime voice explaining why those things don’t disqualify a Senate candidate when the seat matters enough.
A little-known provision of Maine law allows the Democratic Party to replace Platner on the general election ballot even after the primary — a mechanism that party leaders are reportedly aware of and have not ruled out. Whether they use it will say more about what the Democratic Party actually believes than anything any of its representatives have said on television this week.
