“The View” co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin sparred over one another’s criticisms of their political opponents during Tuesday’s panel.
Griffin criticized the “far-left” for their “negative” rhetoric against the Republican Party, who she predicted will retake the majority in Congress after the midterm elections. When Hostin pushed back against the term “far-left,” Griffin brought up how she previously compared white, Republican women to “roaches voting for raid.”
“Nobody’s far-left,” Hostin said. “The far-left did not storm the Capitol, so let’s talk about that.”
“Sunny, last week you called white Republican women cockroaches,” Griffin pushed back.
“I didn’t, let me answer that,” Hostin began, following an interruption from co-host Whoopi Goldberg. “She just said I called white women roaches, which my mother is a white woman. Second of all, what I used is a metaphor, more like a simile, and I said ‘white women, Republicans, I just read a poll that suburbans are voting Republican. That is like roaches voting for raid. And by the way, that wasn’t my joke, that was John Leguizamo’s joke. It’s a joke that I have used it on this show a few weeks ago referring to Latinos, and nobody had anything to say about it.”
Hostin said that voting Republican will be a return to the patriarchal society of Gilead, a reference to Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” (RELATED: Sunny Hostin Says A ‘Black Republican’ Is An ‘Oxymoron’)
“Sunny, we’ve heard your point,” Griffin interjected. “I’m trying to make you consider a perspective that you haven’t before.”
“You are actually twisting what I said,” Hostin said.
“That is what you said, you said it was like roaches voting for raid, it was a simile, I care for that. But do you understand why people—” Griffin said as the segment cut to break.
Griffin previously pushed back against Hostin’s comparison during the Nov. 3 panel, where the co-host argued that Republican women were going “against their own self interest” by voting for candidates that intend to restrict or ban abortion.