View Hosts Blame Trump Win On Co-Host’s Kamala Harris Exchange: ‘Sunny Ruined It!’

The View hosts joked that co-host Sunny Hostin was responsible for President Donald Trump’s win because of a question she asked then-Vice President Kamala Harris.

Among the pivotal moments leading up to Trump’s victory, some cite the then-Veep’s response to Hostin in which Harris failed to differentiate herself from then-President Joe Biden.

“Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” asked Hostin.

Harris replied, “There is not a thing that comes to mind.”

On this week’s edition of The View‘s Behind The Table Podcast, Hostin — after ribbing from her co-hosts — dissected her exchange with Harris, saying she knew right away it would become a big moment:

EXEC PRODUCER BRIAN TETA: Made quite a bit of news, created some viral moments. I guess I’ll start with Sunny.

JOY BEHAR: Sunny ruined it! It’s Sunny’s fault she didn’t win!

EXEC PRODUCER BRIAN TETA: Sunny, we can’t ignore the fact that you may have single-handedly taken down the Democratic Party — some would say democracy itself — with one question that you asked Vice President Harris about what she would do differently than President Biden, how President Harris —

SUNNY HOSTIN: Do y’all remember that?

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Hard to forget.

EXEC PRODUCER BRIAN TETA: Take me back to that moment and —

SARAH HAINES: How hard did you think that question was?

EXEC PRODUCER BRIAN TETA: Well, did you know instantly that this was gonna be meaningful the way she answered it?

SUNNY HOSTIN: I knew it instantly when she answered it, which is why I asked the follow-up question, is — there one thing?

You know, because I knew, I just, I could see the sound bite and I knew what was going to happen, but I thought it was a really fair question and I thought that it was a question that she would expect.

EXEC PRODUCER BRIAN TETA: It wasn’t a gotcha question.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: By any means.

SARAH HAINES: It shouldn’t have been a gotcha question.

SUNNY HOSTIN: But I think we ask tough questions because I think our viewers want to hear those answers, right? And Barbara Walters asked tough questions. And so I just felt that that’s something that she needed to do, differentiate what a Harris administration would look like, as opposed to a Biden administration.

And she didn’t have the answer that I expected. I expected her answer to be something like, we have won, we have this win, this win, this win, this win. We’ve been more successful than any other administration in decades. And so I intend to build on those wins but of course I’m gonna be different because I’m a woman of color, I’m child of immigrants, I’m going to, I’m, I am a lawyer, I going to do things differently through the, my life experience.

But doesn’t that sound like a good answer? Like I just assumed that was the answer and then I didn’t get that.

EXEC PRODUCER BRIAN TETA: I —

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And now Jake Tapper wrote it in his book.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: It’s honestly in every 2024 recap book, is kind of the moment. But it’s —

SUNNY HOSTIN: It feels terrible.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: No, it speaks to how… You are in the history books. Speaks to how relevant this show is, though. It is where presidential candidates come and make their way or they fail and don’t meet the moment.

EXEC PRODUCER BRIAN TETA: Yeah. I don’t really —

SUNNY HOSTIN: Thanks for bringing that up, Brian.

EXEC PRODUCER BRIAN TETA: No problem! Here’s another question. Do you guys believe that really did change the election? I don’t think so.

SARAH HAINES: I don’t think it was the, I think it —

SUNNY HOSTIN: No, right?

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think it played a role.

Watch above via The View‘s Behind The Table Podcast.