The View Cohost Says Sara Haines Isn’t Living ‘In Reality’ During Tense Debate Over 2028 Election

President Trump’s is halfway through his second term. However, all eyes are on the 2028 election, for wildly different reasons. Republicans want to retain the White House, while Democrats search for the winning candidate to regain control. The View hosts slammed Sara Haines over her shocking prediction for the 2028 election. Keep reading to find out what she said that sparked the backlash.

via: EW

While The View‘s pre-taped Friday episodes are typically tame affairs, the latest installment exploded into a heated debate about the 2028 presidential election and identity politics as Democrats weigh options for who to nominate.

Joy Behar initiated what would become a heated Hot Topics discussion about a range of topics tied to the 2028 presidential election, including who Democrats might endorse as speculation mounts that 84-year-old Bernie Sanders might eye another bid for office.

“You want somebody who follows the Constitution, not somebody who wrote it,” Behar joked about Sanders. “He’s the same age as me and I would not run for president. I don’t have the energy to do such a job like that.”

“Neither does Trump,” Ana Navarro responded, as the conversation shifted to what Sara Haines said is a need to find “someone that inspires” the left.

While former Donald Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin said she thinks Sanders’ presence “will absolutely have a force within who is ultimately chosen to be the nominee,” she’s settled on Kamala Harris being “the most likely person to be the Democratic nominee” in 2028.

Behar balked at the thought, seeing as Harris has now lost two presidential elections in a row.

“I find it hard to believe based on the money she raised, the name ID she had, and I don’t think the party would pass over her for a generic white man,” Griffin replied, while Behar and Haines cited other candidates like Sec. Pete Buttigieg and Gov. Wes Moore.

“Are they gonna vote for a gay guy?” Behar asked, prompting Haines to reply.

“I’m not going to break the country 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,” she said, though her cohosts scoffed at the thought: “You’re not in reality,” Behar said. “I don’t think that’s reality,” Griffin replied. “That isn’t reality,” Sunny Hostin repeated.

“You think people were sitting around when President Obama won and said, ‘We’re so ready for a Black president’? No, he blew it out of the park and everyone was like, 'And there we go.' You show them what they’re ready for,” Haines countered.

Hostin looked over toward Haines and firmly pushed back.

“And after President Obama, you know what we got? We got Trump, we got a whitelash against a Black president. That’s what we got,” the former federal prosecutor said. “I wish this country, after 250 years, was beyond identity, but we are not, and we need to be realistic. And as a Democratic party, we need to win.”

The conversation came after an uptick in conservative political guests on The View, interviews with whom the panelists have discussed a wide range of current events, ranging from the affordability crisis to economic challenges facing Americans — which both came up during the show’s recent headline-making interview with Vice President JD Vance.

The View airs weekdays on ABC.

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While I like Bernie, I don't even think at his age he will run in 2028. Pete Bootyplug doesn't have a rat's chance in hell of winning, not because he's an out and proud homoseggshuh, but because he doesn't have the best track record among black voters.

Kamala like Gavin Newsom have all of a sudden been trying to get cozy with Zohran Mamdani and adapt progressive democratic socialist ideologies in their recent interviews, which makes me feel as if they have seen the writing on the wall two years into Trump's disastrous second term, and is only pretending to adapt the same policies that Democratic spcialist winners like Zohran Mamdani, Melat Kiros, and Mamdani-backed DSA candidates Claire Valdez (NY-7) and Darializa Avila Chevalier. Speaking of Chevalier, Sara Haines herself not only refused to pronounce her name correctly, but also referred to Darializa as an antisemite during an episode that aired earlier this month.

Speaking of which, every Democrat the party's establishment crowned a "rising star" in 2024 is losing.

Mallory McMorrow — given a prime-time speaking slot at the 2024 DNC to wave a giant Project 2025 book — just dropped out of the Michigan Senate race, polling a distant third.

Jasmine Crockett — another star convention speaker — lost her primary to James Talarico.

Jack Schlossberg — JFK's grandson, given a stage in Chicago to talk about the Party’s future — lost his New York congressional primary.

Raja Krishnamoorthi. Geoff Duncan. Kyle Sweetser. Gone.

Meanwhile — who's winning?

Zohran Mamdani. Who the DNC didn't want.

Darializa Avila Chevalier who the Party didn't platform.

Melat Kiros defeating a 15-term incumbent in Colorado

Brad Lander defeating an incumbent in NY

Claire Valdez in NY-7.

Abdul El-Sayed. Running against an AIPAC-backed incumbent.

The communications director for one of those winners said it plainly:

"That refusal still casts a long shadow. It's not surprising the centrist establishment are no longer capable of spotting rising stars."

He was talking about the DNC's decision not to platform a single Palestinian American speaker at the 2024 convention.

The establishment put the wrong people on stage, while the voters are finally realizing their power and are putting the right people in office.

So if Democrats want to win in 2028, they need to get out there, meet with their voters, focus on the things their voters actually want like lowering costs, raising the working wages, universal healthcare, universal child care, lower gas costs, denounce Israel and their genocide against Palestinians and any other brown person in an area Israel feels they have autonomy over, and stop trying to win over Republicans, which was one of many issues that costed Kamala the 2024 election.