Die-Hard Dem Sunny Hostin Finally Admits She Got 2024 Wrong
Dedicated Democrat Sunny Hostin has changed her tune on the state of America amid Donald Trump’s re-election, admitting on Monday’s episode of The View that she “missed the boat” in her sweeping support of every move the Democrats made during election season.
“I’m rethinking my thinking,” Hostin said on the show, as she and her co-hosts discussed why Trump won over so many working-class voters, despite his policies. “Maybe it’s time for the Democrats to do a little bit of this postmortem. The Democratic Party has always been the party of the working class. If you look at all the policies, they’re for the people.” And yet, she conceded, the party’s messaging didn’t resonate with the majority of working class people, as indicated by Trump’s sweeping win of the popular vote.
Hostin has been a fierce defender of the Democratic Party on The View both before and since the election. Whenever a critique of the Democrats would emerge, usually from Republican co-host and former Trump aide Alyssa Farah-Griffin, Hostin would often throw the onus back on Republicans, who Hostin has said needs to evaluate why their party was comfortable with “a convicted felon” at the top of their ticket.
And yet still, Hostin said Monday, she’s finally come to the conclusion that the Democrats have also missed the mark—and so has she, in her hesitance to critique what her co-hosts described as a party that is for “highly educated” people or “college professors” rather than working class Americans.
Her mistake, Hostin said, was “in terms of realizing that there are so many Americans that still have that experience that I grew up with and that members of my family grew up with,” she said, describing how she was raised “in abject poverty, from the Bronx,” where her “parents lived paycheck to paycheck” and “had to decide whether they were going to feed me or whether or not we were gonna have heat.”
“The Democratic Party has always been the party of the working class, if you look at all the policies—they’re for the people,” she continued, but “I think we need to make space in this tent for the people that are really gonna need it. Because I gotta tell you, I don’t think the Republican Party is the party of the working class.”
Though Trump won most votes of working class people, many of the policies and stances he’s announced would adversely affect the non-elite, from the tariffs he’s promised that economists have repeatedly said would raise the costs on most goods, to his shifting stance on the cost of groceries, which he’d run on bringing down, but admitted earlier this month would be “hard.”
While co-host Sara Haines questioned whether “being heard was enough” for working class voters, Griffin offered that his stance on deporting millions of immigrants was what handed him the win. “It’s not they think immigrants are going to take their jobs, it’s [that] they know big corporations take advantage of cheap labor while they’re struggling to make ends meet.”
Whoopi Goldberg, for her part, repeated as she has before that she’s not a member of either party—and as far as Trump, she’s going to “wait and see.”
