“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin got into a heated exchange with her fellow co-host, Alyssa Farah Griffin, during a Monday segment as they debated why President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 election.
Hostin suggested that the only demographic who backed Trump were uneducated white men, without mentioning the historic surge in support among Latino and black men for the president-elect. Griffin mentioned Trump’s inroads with these demographics, and further noted that most voters trusted the president-elect over Vice President Kamala Harris on the economy and immigration.
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“There’s a clear racial divide in who voted for Trump as opposed to who voted for Kamala Harris. It’s very clear, it’s not only clear by race, but it’s also clear by education,” Hostin said. “And so the notion that somehow that is not true, those who attended college voted for her at a higher than those who didn’t … And so I’ve said that before, and there was so much backlash because I think it’s an uncomfortable, inconvenient truth about this country.”
“But [HBO host Bill Maher’s] whole point is that they didn’t vote for him because of racism and misogyny. They voted for him because the biggest common denominator in this election is people want a good life and an ability to provide for their family,” Griffin argued, leading Hostin to say that black people did not support Trump.
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Hostin said that black people voted for Trump despite being the poorest demographic in the U.S., leading Griffin to argue that the “vast majority” of voters did not support Trump because of racism and sexism.
“I didn’t say the vast majority, Alyssa. But the stats are the stats,” Hostin said.
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“It doesn’t say ‘I’m white, I voted for Donald Trump because of racism,’” Griffin fired back. “What’s that that you’re talking about?”
Hostin accused Latino men, who voted for Trump in highest droves than ever before, of “misogyny” during a Nov. 7 segment. Trump became the first Republican nominee to win the Latino male vote in the 2024 election, garnering 55% of support among that voter block in an NBC News exit poll.
Harris underperformed among all Hispanics by only receiving 52% of support in exit polls, while President Joe Biden garnered 61% in 2020 and former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton earned 66% in 2016, according to Politico. Roughly 4 in 10 Hispanic voters named the economy as their top issue, while 7 in 10 of the voter bloc rated the current state of the economy as either “not so good” or “poor,” according to an exit poll by Edison Research.
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Griffin continued to argue that supporting border security is not xenophobic or racist, but due to the economic consequence of paying for their housing. Hostin accused Republicans of opposing a minimum wage to help citizens economically.
“I think it’s important that we remember [that] two thirds of this country does not have a 4-year degree. And in fact, 30% who do live 9 years longer than those who don’t,” Griffin said. “Something is happening in this country, it’s a lot of my family who don’t have 4-year degrees, they may not even have associates degrees, who they’re working harder than they ever have, they have multiple jobs and they can’t get ahead … This is a real divide here and when they’re told ‘you know what, we do care about border security not because we’re xenophobic, but because this country is paying more money to house and to house these people.”
“Then why are Republicans against giving people a living wage? Why is the Republican Party constantly against $15 an hour?” Hostin interrupted, leading Griffin to argue that some businesses cannot afford to raise the minimum wage.
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