‘Why the Hell Are They Doing This?’: Sunny Hostin’s ‘Disgusting’ Attack on Black Men In Comparison to White Women Who Also Voted for Trump Ignites Firestorm of Backlash Online

How does Kamala Harris plan to reclaim the roughly 5 percent of Black male voters who polls indicate are open to voting for Republican nominee Donald Trump and his platform built largely on white grievance? Slinging pejoratives in their direction, as Sunny Hostin did last week on “The View,” is probably not the best way. Sunny Hostin faces backlash for calling Black men “ridiculous” for voting for Trump. (ABC Video Screengrab) “You’ve got 53 percent of white women that voted for him in 2020,” Hostin said, describing who she sees as gettable votes. “We’ve got to reach those women.” “We’ve got to reach those ridiculous, crazy Black men who did vote for Trump,” she continued. “We’ve got to reach the Cuban men in Miami who overwhelmingly vote for him.” A particular stand out from Hostin’s comments was her lack of adjectives for both white women who have voted for Trump. According to a recent analysis by CNN, “working-class White women loom as a critical, potentially even decisive, factor in Trump’s third White House bid.” Yet, despite their political power and leverage, they were simply described as “white women.”& Cuban men were also spared Hostin’s verbal condemnation despite being the decisive...