'The View' Co-Host Alyssa Farah Griffin Reality Checks Sunny Hostin After She Calls Kamala Harris 'Moderate'

“The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin gave co-host Sunny Hostin a reality check after she called Vice President Kamala Harris a “moderate” on Friday.

Harris was voted after independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as the most liberal senator in the 116th Congress by the nonpartisan organization GovTrack, which tracks lawmakers' voting records. After Hostin referred to Harris as a “moderate,” Griffin reviewed his political records and platform during the 2020 presidential primary race.

“Republicans are trying to frame her as this deep leftist,” Hostin began. “She's a former prosecutor. Not only is she a former prosecutor, but she was the AG of the largest Justice Department in the country, other than the actual Justice Department. Prosecutors aren't really left-wing, they put people on the prison for a living, okay? They're pretty moderate. I know the vice president personally, she's not, she's moderate.”

“Can I answer that?” Griffin interjected. “I think the point is that in 2020 he ran at a time when he ran to the left.”

Griffin noted Harris' support for bail funds to free participants in the Black Lives Matter riots. Griffin then argued that Harris is moving to the center as he prepares to run in the general election.

“An example was the moment of George Floyd, the country was torn apart, and he made a statement saying that he wanted to rescue the people who were protesting in the streets. So people took it in a certain way, they felt that he runs to resonate in that primary as opposed to someone like Biden,” Griffin added, after receiving pushback from his fellow co-hosts.

Harris has drawn criticism for handing down harsh sentences for nearly 2,000 people for marijuana-related crimes during his time as California attorney general. While in the Senate, she co-sponsored a bill to decriminalize marijuana use.

The now vice president too cosign a bill sponsored by Sanders' “Medicare for All” bill, which aimed to abolish private health insurance and create a single-payer system where the federal government is the sole provider of health insurance coverage . He later proposed his own “Medicare for All” legislation in July 2019 where citizens could keep their own private insurance provider.

Harris too co-sponsored the Green New Deal, which New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced in the House while support eliminating the Senate filibuster in order to pass the legislation in 2019. The then-Democratic senator also supported the fracking ban, which she later withdrew.

she supported slavery reparations for black Americans during his 2020 presidential bid.

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