As Election Day approaches, hosts of “The View” expressed their optimism that Kamala Harris will beat Donald Trump in the presidential race (Sunny Hostin said she is “disgustingly 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 them,” Griffin said of his vote for Harris. “I am concerned 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 to bring this country together. I don't agree with a lot of their 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.” For me, it's less about voting for a Democrat voting, but rather about voting for a democracy and a constitution, so I commend you for that… (You) are being torn apart, but you did the right thing and I commend you for that.”

Behar said she was optimistic for Harris because Donald Trump had “deteriorated massively” in the latter stages of his campaign, pointing to a viral moment from Trump's Nov. 1 rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in which Trump appeared to perform oral sex. Act performed at a party microphone positioned “too low”.

“This microphone should require a restraining order,” Behar said as “The View” audience laughed and cheered in agreement. “What American wants their children to witness the possibility of a President of the United States simulating a sexual act? He seems to keep sinking. Not just on this microphone.”

Goldberg agreed, adding, “Yesterday when we showed that part of him with the microphone, it bothered me all day and I couldn't figure it out, and this morning I figured it out. “I don't want to hear any more parents say, who are worried about what their children are being taught or are afraid of drag queens reading books to their children. If what you saw from him 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 vocally anti-Trump throughout the election season, so much so that Trump was at a campaign event in Reading, Pennsylvania last month when he described the hosts of “The View” as “really “stupid people”. He then recalled that he once hired Goldberg for a comedy event at one of his casinos, but he criticized her act as “dirty, dirty” and “disgusting.”

“I was dirty and I own that fact. “I’ve always been dirty and you knew that when you hired me,” Goldberg shot back at Trump after the rally. “I was headlining at your casino, baby, where I might have kept playing if you hadn't broken it. How stupid are you? They hired me four times. Didn't know what you were getting? How stupid are you?”

Goldberg ended the Election Day episode of “The View” with a call for unity on the voting lines, saying, “I want to say something to the people out there who are voting, who are out at the polls, when you see other voters to be harassed.”, call someone. Call a police officer. Call someone. A woman was punched in the stomach in Florida. She hasn't done anything…if we stick together and say we won't let this happen. We will not allow you to harass others. We have to do something.”

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