The debate divided The View along unexpected lines, as Hostin and conservative Mia Love teamed up to take on Whoopi and Joy Behar. “I can’t believe I’m saying that I agree with former congresswoman Mia Love, but…”
The View had a wild and woolly morning when Sunny Hostin teamed up with conservative guest co-host Mia Love to bash President Joe Biden, much to Whoopi and Joy Behar’s chagrin.
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The ensuing conversation lasted two full episodes and resulted in a Whoopi vs. Sunny sparring fight unlike anything else fans have seen this season. Tuesday’s Hot Topic was nothing out of the usual — the women talked about Biden’s poor approval rating and Americans’ apparent addiction to “people bashing,” as Whoopi put it in her intro — but when Hostin brought up Biden’s disastrous first nine months in office, things went sideways.
“His message for a lot of voters, especially the Black community, was, ‘I’m going to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. I’m going to work on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. I’m going to work on immigration reform,'” said Hostin. “Those were the bedrocks of his campaign, and he has been woefully deficient in meeting those campaign promises.”
Whoopi and Joy immediately came to Biden’s defense, arguing that he’s only “been in nine months” and “the media isn’t portraying him as a winner.” Added Behar, “I don’t care if the president has charisma. He does not. Joe Biden doesn’t have it … He’s a good manager, though. He manages the country.”
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Love, for her part, disagreed with Behar’s characterization of Biden. “It’s easy to be a leader when things are going well. It is very difficult to be a leader when the crap hits the fan,” she told the panel.
“But the reality is, with all of the promises that were made and not kept, with what’s happening at the border with immigrants, with Afghanistan, and also inflation going up, food prices, gas prices — the messaging is not getting to the American people: ‘This is how I’m going to relieve you!'”
After the commercial break, Whoopi was finally able to answer, claiming that Biden has been unable to maintain his loftier pledges because he was confronted with more important challenges immediately upon taking offices, such as COVID and America’s decaying infrastructure.
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“I say, in nine months, I’m happy that he was able to get as much of the COVID [vaccine] in people’s arms as he could, unemployment is down,” she said. “It is not perfect. It’s not the way I would like to see it done. I would do it differently if I was president, but you know, I’m not running.”
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Hostin replied by siding with Love, saying, “He has such a low approval rating right now. People have lost confidence, especially the people that brought him to the dance, that brought him to the barbecue!”
Whoopi tut-tutted and sarcastically encouraged Hostin to “keep doing what you’re doing” as she continued to highlight Biden’s unfulfilled pledges to Black and Latinx voters and “unforced errors.” But, after a few seconds, Whoopi seemed to have had enough. “Let’s not even start with that!” she exclaimed when Hostin brought up Biden’s policy toward Haitian refugees. “That’s not the question!”
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“He was supposed to be a change agent, and he is not doing that!” yelled Hostin. “Yes he was!” fired back Whoopi. “He came in and had a pile of doody he had to clean it up!”
The debate was finally over, but only because Sara Haines needed to announce a new magazine from one of the show’s sponsors. It’s hardly the most graceful transition, but after 20 minutes of yelling, we’ll take it.