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July 07, 2026
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ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin must have been listening to so Taylor Swift before Tuesday’s episode of The View, since she proclaimed, “I’m the problem” as she doubled down on supporting Maine’s Democratic Party Nazi Graham Platner. When directly pressured on if she still would vote for him after new sexual assault allegations, Hostin refused to walk away from her previous dedication to him as a Senate candidate.

After spending most of their A-block squawking about moderator Whoopi Goldberg getting stuck in Sicily because of an erupting Mt. Etna, they relegated the breaking Platner news to after their first commercial break.

First to speak, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin recalled how many on the left and in the media dismissed the accusations of her friend and earlier Platner accuser because she was a Republican. On cue, co-hosts Joy Behar and Hostin roundly dismissed her again:

FARAH GRIFFIN: And, there was another accuser who came out who I've known for over 15 years, who accused him of what I would characterize as domestic violence when they had dated, and that wasn't enough. And many dismissed her claims because she had worked for Republicans in the past and they didn't take them seriously. Domestic violence should be an absolute no-

BEHAR: All of that is true, but I don't want to hear from the Epstein protector party, okay?

HOSTIN: Yeah.

Knowing full well that Hostin had previously called for Maine Democrats to hold their nose and vote for Platner, co-host Sara Haines condemned such people. Hostin responded by announcing herself proudly:

HAINES: It is the disgusting time in politics where we decide what we're willing to morally accept based on the jersey you're wearing. And if you were one of those people that was willing to plug your nose, you're the problem.

HOSTIN: Well then, I'm the problem! Because I was one of those people and I said it, if I lived in Maine I would have, you know, plugged my nose and would have voted for him anyway.

Hostin proceeded to justify her position with her hyperbolic rhetoric about America being in an “existential crisis” and scoffing at Republicans for thinking they had the moral high ground:

I think we are in a time of existential crisis in this country and I think Republicans fall in line. They don't fall in love. Democrats want to fall in love and not fall in line. You know, the Republican Party, the bar is so very low, I can't believe, I cannot believe that they want to try to assume the moral high ground on the Republican Party.

Nearly a month ago, on June 10, Hostin called on Maine Democrats to abandon the moral high ground and vote for Platner:

It's time for Democrats to stop that nonsense, put emotions on the side, let's be strategic, let's get some power, let’s take over the Senate and let’s take over the House and let's right the ship! Let's get our country back!

I am sorry, I am someone that believes in character, I am someone that believes that morals matter. But because of the state of this country, I would -- if I lived in Maine I would hold my nose and I would vote for Platner! I would!

Fast forward to Tuesday, and Hostin refused to retract that full-throated support for Platner when pushed on it:

FARAH GRIFFIN: You'd be comfortable still voting for Graham Platner if you lived in Maine?

HOSTIN: They [Republicans] do not get to take the moral high ground.

Hostin made it clear that it was all about taking control of the Senate and making sure Democrats got power.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
July 7, 2026
11:15:18 a.m. Eastern

(...)

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: These are damning allegations, they are credible. They are corroborated, they are horrific.

JOY BEHAR: Yes.

FARAH GRIFFIN: This woman is incredibly brave for coming forward. But my issue is this: Graham Platner should drop out but I thought he should have dropped out at the Nazi tattoo. I think he should have dropped out at defaming Purple Heart recipients -

BEHAR: Right.

FARAH GRIFFIN: - and a fallen Navy SEAL. Homophobic slurs. Bigoted posts in the past. Even previously slandering sexual assault victims.

And, there was another accuser who came out who I've known for over 15 years, who accused him of what I would characterize as domestic violence when they had dated, and that wasn't enough. And many dismissed her claims because she had worked for Republicans in the past and they didn't take them seriously. Domestic violence should be an absolute no

BEHAR: All of that is true, but I don't want to hear from the Epstein protector party, okay?

SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah.

[Applause]

(...)

11:16:29 a.m. Eastern

SARA HAINES: It is the disgusting time in politics where we decide what we're willing to morally accept based on the jersey you're wearing. And if you were one of those people that was willing to plug your nose, you're the problem.

HOSTIN: Well then, I'm the problem! Because I was one of those people and I said it, if I lived in Maine I would have, you know, plugged my nose and would have voted for him anyway.

I think we are in a time of existential crisis in this country and I think Republicans fall in line. They don't fall in love. Democrats want to fall in love and not fall in line. You know, the Republican Party, the bar is so very low, I can't believe, I cannot believe that they want to try to assume the moral high ground on the Republican Party.

I mean, you know, you can miss me with all of that especially when you have Pete Hegseth who was confirmed by the Senate in 2025 as the head -- as a cabinet member, as the defense secretary when he had one drinking allegation.  His sister-in-law, his sister-in-law submitted a sworn affidavit describing his drinking problem. And in order to get confirmed he pledged he wouldn't drink on the job.

Number two, he had a tattoo controversy. Not one, but two tattoo controversies, one was a Deus Vult tattoo, which is used by white nationalist groups. Two, he had - has a Jerusalem Cross tattoo which has been interpreted as an extremist symbol.

And finally, in 2017 a woman claimed he had sexually assaulted her after a conference. She reported that assault immediately, she had a sexual assault examination, and in 2020 and he says it was a consensual encounter. And in to 2020 he paid her $50,000 to settle the claim yet, yet.

FARAH GRIFFIN: Why not condemn them all? Because I condemn them all.

HOSTIN: Yet -yet. Well, but the Republicans didn't do that.

[Crosstalk]

HOSTIN: The Republicans confirmed him and he is the -

[Crosstalk]

FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, I'm a Republican right here condemning anyone who's been credibly accused of sexual abuse, they shouldn't be -

HOSTIN: I'm talking about the Republican Party as a whole. They are the Epstein file protection party and -

FARAH GRIFFIN: You'd be comfortable still voting for Graham Platner if you lived in Maine?

HOSTIN: They do not get to take the moral high ground.

 (...)

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