The View's Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin clash over politics ...
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LEVY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 07:17 GMT, 19 November 2024 | Updated: 07:17 GMT, 19 November 2024 e-mail 7 shares View comments The View panelists Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin clashed Monday over politics on the ABC series, with Whoopi Goldberg simmering things down as the conversation grew tense. Hostin, 56, and Griffin, 35, - who have sparred before on the topic - were reacting to a segment broadcast Friday on Real Time With Bill Maher , which touched on reasons President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in decisive fashion earlier this month.
Hostin said she disagreed with Maher's opinion that Democrats were deceptively playing up racism as a factor in Trump's defeat of Harris, saying that it did play a role, in addition to sexism. 'I know that, as a country, it's very difficult for people to believe that racism and misogyny, they're just alive and well,' Hostin said. Hostin, a one-time federal prosecutor, said that her life experience told her that racism and sexism 'does s.