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Harpies on ‘The View’ pile on Joy Behar, accusing her of being ‘in love’ with JD Vance

June 20, 2026 | | Print Article

A glimpse of open dialogue of a bygone era found the ladies of “The View” piling on co-host Joy Behar for her “love” of the vice president while missing the reality of his disarming “niceness.”

As part of Vice President J.D. Vance’s book tour for “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” he appeared on the ABC talk show this week, only to later joke how Behar is “way tougher” than Iranians. Friday, the vice president’s suggestion that he and she “are best friends now,” found her defending etiquette with blinders on about the cast’s own Trump Derangement Syndrome.

After playing a clip of Vance filling in for White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt discussing negotiations in the Middle East, Sunny Hostin reacted, “What?!? We were more difficult to deal with than the Iranian government?” as Behar pointed out, “He’s being funny, I think.”

“It’s like with J.D. He was here the other day. I respect the office. I believe in reaching across the aisle. I do,” she went on to add, only for Hostin to cue an inquisition, “But I want to know, why were you so in love with J.D. Vance?”

“I wasn’t in love. I’m not in love with him, and I’m not in love with this administration,” she insisted as Sara Haines quipped, “And he’s not her best friend.”

Adding her own two cents in the “mean girls” dogpile, Ana Navarro argued, “He came in strategically prepared to disarm us with niceness. He came in being affable and laughing easily and being very nice. It worked on you. Didn’t work on me.”

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“It didn’t work on me either,” contended Hostin as Behar defended, “It did not ‘work’ on me. It did not. I respect the office. I’m a civilized human being, and when someone comes on my show, then you treat them like a human being.”

After Hostin admitted, “Barbara Walters did say that,” Behar reminded, “I learned under Barbara Walters.”

During the press conference the day prior, Vance responded to a question about his key role in negotiations with Iran and said in part, “I have seen some progressive criticisms of me personally, saying what experience does the vice president of the United States have with hostile, high stakes negotiations, and I would point those progressive critics to the fact that just two days ago, I spent over an hour on ‘The View.’ So, I actually have great experience in very hostile negotiations … look, Joy Behar is way tougher than the Iranians, and she and I are best friends now.”

Rather than recognizing that the shifting nature of the Overton Window has taken the left side of the political aisle to further extremes, the panel opted to portray Vance as a “chameleon” and a “flip-flopper” while further demonizing MAGA Republicans.

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As a result, Behar concluded the panel didn’t need a change in perspective to recognize that “a Republican could be a good person” as she voiced her “hope” that Vance may one day change, “You know what? I believe that people are redeemable. I remember when he wrote the ‘Hillbilly Elegy.’ He grew up poor. It was a really good book. He was not the person he is now, I agree with that. Maybe he’ll go back to that. Who knows? I can only hope.”

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