Joy Behar rejects Kamala Harris for 2028, tells ‘The View’ co-hosts they’re not living in ‘reality’

Joy Behar rejected former Vice President Kamala Harris as a 2028 candidate for president during an exchange on “The View” Friday, as she told her co-hosts they weren’t living in reality while floating candidates who were straight, White men.

The co-hosts discussed the future of the Democratic Party during the show, as Alyssa Farah Griffin said, “But my hot take of the moment is the most likely person to be the Democratic nominee is Kamala Harris. In every poll, she is still — it’s usually her and Gavin Newsom neck and neck.”

Behar then interrupted and announced she had a better list of choices for the 2028 Democratic nominee.

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“I have a better list. I love her, she was great, but she didn’t win one time. What makes you think she’s going to win again?” Behar asked, appearing to refer to her being swept in all the major swing states by President Donald Trump.

Griffin pushed back and said based on name recognition and the money she raised, she didn’t think the party would pass over her for a generic White man.

“I like Jon Ossoff, he’s 39 years old. I like Josh Shapiro, 53 years old. Gavin Newsom, 58, and JB Pritzker, 61,” Behar said.

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Co-host Sara Haines floated Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md., and former Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

“Look, we all love Buttigieg,” Behar then chimed in. “Are they going to vote for a gay guy?”

Haines pushed back on the identity politics argument propelled by Behar. 

“I am not going to break the party down based on ‘they won’t vote for a gay White man/woman.’ I think the identity reduces the charisma of the character, the person in front of us. Because we can’t—” she said.

“You’re not in reality,” Behar then said. “I don’t think that’s reality.”

Haines argued that Democratic voters weren’t sitting around and saying, “We’re ready for a Black president” when Barack Obama was running and that the former president won voters over on the campaign trail.

She added, “You show them what they’re ready for.”

Co-host Sunny Hostin agreed with Behar, as the co-hosts got heated.

“Yeah, and you know what? And after President Obama, you know what we got? We got Trump. We got a whitelash against a Black President,” Hostin said to audience applause. “And in this country, I wish this country after 250 years were beyond identity, but we are not, and we need to be realistic, and as a Democratic Party, we need to win. We need to get this country back on track.”

“Maybe I’m too old at this point for this conversation, but I’ve been watching this country for a long time, and you’ve got to be in reality. These past few years that Trump has been in office, he’s practically destroying democracy. This is an emergency we’re in! We can’t play around,” Behar said.

Co-host Ana Navarro rejected the notion floated by Behar that the nominee needed to be a White man.

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“Millions of people watch us on a daily basis, and you are a feminist, you have fought to break glass ceilings,” she said. “What I’m saying is I’m not going to tell little Black children or little Latino children or little girls that they can’t run and become president.”

Behar said that was not what she was saying, and that she only cared about Democrats winning.

Hostin suggested in April that a presidential bid might not be the right position for Harris, who was anointed the Democratic nominee in place of then-President Joe Biden after he dropped out in 2024 over concerns about his mental fitness for office. 

She went on to lose to Trump, falling short in every majorly contested battleground state.