Nothing says must-see television like watching the co-hosts of "The View" rip each other apart over whether it is acceptable to vote for a guy they themselves have described as terrible. The latest episode of "who has less moral consistency" featured Sunny Hostin getting cornered by her own colleagues, and the results were spectacular, as The American Tribune reported.
The subject was Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who is now facing sexual assault allegations on top of already being, in Hostin's own words from June 1, 2026, a homophobic racist and anti-Semite. Two days after calling him all of that, she said she would hold her nose and vote for him anyway if she lived in Maine. That is quite the 48-hour journey.
Co-host Sarah Haines was not having any of it. "It is a disgusting time in politics where we decide what we're willing to morally accept based on the jersey you're wearing, and if you are one of those people that was willing to plug your nose, you're the problem," she said during the segment. Hostin, to her credit, admitted she was "the problem." Then, to her discredit, she immediately tried to change the subject to Republicans.
Hostin launched into the Pete Hegseth confirmation controversy, bringing up the 2017 sexual assault allegation against the Secretary of War and his $50,000 settlement in 2020. She cited this as evidence that the GOP has no moral high ground. Alyssa Farah Griffin, a Republican on the panel, asked Hostin why she would not just condemn sexual assault allegations across the board regardless of party.
"Well, I'm a Republican right here condemning anyone who's been credibly accused of sexual abuse," Griffin fired back.
Hostin then pivoted to Jeffrey Epstein. When Griffin asked point blank whether Hostin would still be comfortable voting for Platner, Hostin dodged the question entirely and went right back to lecturing about the Republican Party. It was like watching someone run a four-minute mile in circles around the actual point.
Later in the show, Hostin did eventually say Platner should drop out of the race, since Maine law would allow the party to replace him. So the position appears to be: she would vote for a guy she called a homophobic racist anti-Semite who now faces sexual assault allegations, but only until there is a camera pointed at her and her co-hosts are not letting her escape.
The episode also revisited a July 7, 2026 appearance by former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had deleted an X post about one of Platner's accusers urging assault victims to report immediately rather than wait until a candidate runs for office. Hostin challenged Greene on the post, particularly the implication about "consensual sex" being turned into an accusation. "The fact that someone dates people or has had consensual sex with them previously does not mean that they cannot be raped. Married women can be raped. Sex workers can be raped," Hostin said.
All of this is correct, of course. It just lands a little differently when the person saying it was willing to vote for the accused two paragraphs ago.
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