The View’s Sunny Hostin Clashes With Alyssa Farah Griffin Over Trump Voters’ Motives: ‘Racism And Misogyny – Alive And Well!’

Sparks flew on ABC’s The View Monday as hosts Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin clashed over whether President-elect Donald Trump’s voters were driven by “racism and misogyny” or kitchen-table concerns like jobs and inflation, in a fiery debate that left Whoopi Goldberg calling for a truce.

The segment started off with Goldberg playing out a clip from comedian Bill Maher’s show at the weekend in which he slammed “white progressives” in the Democratic Party who “see their election loss as a result of racism and sexism” when Trump voters “just want prices to go down and good jobs and the police when you call them.”

Asking her co-host for their thoughts, Goldberg turned to Hostin.

“I know that as a country, it’s very difficult for people to believe that racism and misogyny, they’re just alive and well,” Hostin began. “I think that we don’t want to think that about ourselves, our neighbors, our friends, but my lived experience tells me that it does still exist, even if your lived experience doesn’t tell you that it exists and, you know, the facts support that.”

Producers then showed a graphic that appeared to display voting preference, Democrat or Republican, by race.

Hostin continued: “If you look, there’s a clear racial divide in who voted for Trump as opposed to who voted for Kamala Harris. It’s very clear. It’s not only clear by race, but it’s also clear by education, and so the notion somehow that that is not true…”

As producer displayed a second graphic, showing voter preference by education, she added: “Those who attend a college voted for her at a higher degree than those that didn’t. Let me just finish, and so I’ve said that before, and there was so much backlash because I think it’s an uncomfortable, inconvenient truth about this country.”

Griffin, who formerly served as Trump’s White House Communications Director during his first term in office, rejected the idea and repeated Maher’s take: “His whole point is they didn’t vote for him because of racism and misogyny. They voted for him because they felt like… I think the biggest common denominator is people want a good life and ability to pay for their family.”

“Black people are one of the poorest demographics in this country, but they voted for Kamala Harris,” Hostin replied.

Griffin returned: “There was a split and more of them voted for Donald Trump than had historically. I think there’s such a desire… If you think the vast majority of this country voted because of racism and misogyny, you’re missing it. Most of my family… a lot of my family does not have college degrees…”

“I said the vast majority. The stats are the stats,” Hostin pushed back.

Griffin responded: “They didn’t write, ‘I voted for Donald Trump because of racism.’”

Hostin cut in: “You can’t dissect the two.”

“Yes, you can,” Griffin insisted.

Goldberg, referring, called an end to the back and forth: “Hold on. Everybody just take a breath. Take a breath. Take a beat.”

Watch above on ABC.