The hosts of “The View” celebrated Election Day by sharing their optimism that Kamala Harris will beat Donald Trump in the race for president (Sunny Hostin said she was “nauseously optimistic”). All five hosts – Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Hostin, Joy Behar and Alyssa Farah Griffin – voted for Harris. Even Griffin, an outspoken Republican who previously served in the Trump White House, voted for a Democrat for the first time in her life.

“I view my vote as a loan to her,” Griffin said of voting for Harris. “I worry about the direction Donald Trump will take this country, and I take my own warning seriously. I need someone who is a kind and decent person who will bring this country together. “I don’t agree with a lot of her policies and we can criticize that later, but today is about what’s best for the future and the future of the country is that Donald Trump will lose and Kamala Harris will be elected.”

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Haines praised Griffin for her decision to vote Democrat despite being a Republican, saying, “I think this is a big step for you as a lifelong Republican. I see it less as voting for a Democrat and more as voting for a democracy and a Constitution, so I commend you for that…(You) will be torn apart, but you did the right thing, and I commend you for that.”

Behar said she was optimistic about Harris because Donald Trump has “deteriorated tremendously” in the latter stages of his campaign, referencing a viral moment at Trump’s Nov. 1 rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Trump apparently performed an oral sex act on a microphone placed “too low”.

“That microphone should be under a restraining order,” Behar said as the audience of “The View” laughed and cheered approvingly. “What American wants their children to see the possibility of a President of the United States simulating a sexual act? It looks like it’s going further and further down. Not just on that microphone.”

Goldberg agreed, adding, “When we showed that bit of him with the microphone yesterday, it was bothering me all day and I couldn’t figure it out, and I figured it out this morning. I don’t want to hear any more parents who are nervous about what their children are learning, or frightened by drag queens reading books to your children. If what you saw him do didn’t disgust you enough to protect your children, I don’t want to hear from you anymore.

The hosts of “The View” have been outspoken against Trump throughout the election season, so much so that Trump was at a campaign event in Reading, Pennsylvania, last month when he called the hosts of “The View” “really stupid people.” He then recalled that he once hired Goldberg for a comedy event at one of his casinos, but he criticized her performance for being “nasty dirty” and “disgusting.”

“I was dirty and I stand by that fact. I’ve always been nasty, and you knew that when you hired me,” Goldberg fired back at Trump after the meeting. “I was headlining, honey, at your casino, where I might have kept playing if you hadn’t knocked it to the ground. How stupid are you? You hired me four times. Didn’t know what you were getting? How stupid are you?”

Goldberg ended the Election Day episode of “The View” by calling for unity on the voting lines, saying, “I would like to say something to people who are voting, who are out of line and So, if you see other voters being harassed, call someone. Call an agent. Call someone. In Florida, a woman was punched in the stomach. She didn’t do anything… if we stay together and we say we won’t let you do that. We won’t let you bother people. We have to do something.”

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