During a recent episode of ABC’s “The View,” co-host Sunny Hostin asserted that the United States is a “misogynistic country” due to its failure to elect a female president. The discussion centered around the electoral defeats of Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Kamala Harris in 2024.
Hostin stated during the May 15 segment, “This country is a misogynistic country, and this country is a country that, out of all the first world countries, hasn’t been able to elect a female president. That’s just factual.” She argued that sexism played a significant role in the electoral outcomes of both Clinton and Harris.
Co-host Joy Behar echoed Hostin’s sentiments, noting, “We lost twice when women ran.” However, co-hosts Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin offered differing perspectives. Haines questioned whether other factors contributed to the candidates’ losses, asking, “Is there no distinguishing factors to each woman and why they might have lost? Is there no nuance?”
Griffin acknowledged the existence of sexism and racism but contended they were not the primary reasons for Harris’s defeat. She stated, “Sexism, racism, absolutely exist. It absolutely is a factor in elections. It is not the determinative factor in the 2024 election and I disagreed strongly with President Biden when he basically blamed that on why Kamala Harris lost.”
President Joe Biden, in a previous appearance on “The View,” attributed Harris’s loss to sexism, saying, “I wasn’t surprised, not because I didn’t think the vice president was the most qualified person to be president. She is. She’s qualified to be President of the United States of America. I was surprised, I was surprised because they went the route of, the sexist route, the whole route.”
