2016, 2024, 2026: Ten Years Of The View’s Election Denial

Co-host Sunny Hostin came in hot this week, proclaiming on Monday that Americans had good reason to doubt the results of the 2024 presidential election. Did she provide any evidence? Of course, not. It was just another example of ABC’s “bona fide news program” poisoning America’s body politic with misinformation and lies.

Spurred on by President Donald Trump’s Meet the Press interview, where he clashed with moderator Kristen Welker over California’s election system, co-host Sara Haines falsely suggested that election denialism only occurred since Trump first came into office. Cue the clips of Democrats from 2000.

Sunny Hostin, who claimed for years Trump stole the 2016 election, says people are right to think Trump stole the 2024 presidential election and gets a roaring applause from the audience:

SARA HAINES: But if you’re really reflecting on yourself, this problem has been about a… pic.twitter.com/HTPZ6ttaKV

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 8, 2026

Haines clutched her pearls about how it was supposedly only a Republican conspiracy, but had since grown popular with Democrats. Hostin interjected to give credence to their reasoning, since it made no sense to them that Trump won:

HAINES: It’s mainstream with the Republicans, but Alyssa, I’ll take it one step further, Democrats now are questioning the elections. They went from having an 89 percent pre-2024 belief in the system to 64 percent trust in the system.

HOSTIN: And people can’t believe Trump won!

It really shouldn’t be a surprise to Haines that so many Democrats think that way because The View had actively added fuel to that fire.

In 2025, there were not one but three different instances of The View suggesting that Trump stole the 2024 presidential election. When Trump’s relationship with Elon Musk was on the rocks, Hostin teamed up with Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar to suggest the billionaire knew how Trump stole the election, and the president was scared of him.

Hostin was also one of the peddlers of the Russia Collusion Hoax after the 2016 election and would call Trump an illegitimate president, as Hillary Clinton did. She wouldn’t renounce that belief until 2022.

Throughout 2026, The View has repeatedly suggested that Trump will steal the 2026 midterm elections. Hostin had even suggested that the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota were part of the plot.

“I actually think that this is a coordinated effort to steal the 2026 election,” Hostin said. “Remember what happened in Minnesota with Pretti and Good. Pam Bondi sent a letter to the governor of Minnesota and said that they would withdraw ICE agents if they provided all of their voter data.”

ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin claims there is a “coordinated effort to steal the 2026 election” for Trump, claims that the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are a part of it, and claims the federal government are trying to steal social security numbers to steal the election. pic.twitter.com/AWSQPtYE6a

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 30, 2026

It’s getting harder and harder for Disney and ABC to make the case to the FCC that The View is “bona fide news.”