December 19 was The View’s last new show of the year, so it was the perfect time to examine how the ABC News program (the number one rated day-time talk show) was presenting political discussions to their audience in 2025. Over the course of the year (the later half of Season 28 and the first half of Season 29), the predominantly Democratic / anti-Trump cast spoke politics with 128 liberal guests and only 2 conservatives*.
Between January 6 and December 19, 2025, The View had a total of 348 guests.
Of those 128 left-leaning guests, 25 of them were Democratic politicians: Sen. Tammy Duckworth (IL), Sen. John Fetterman (PA) twice, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (MI), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA), Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX) twice, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN), Gov. JB Pritzker (IL), Sen. Elissa Slotkin (MI), Sen. Chuck Schumer (NY), Sen. Cory Booker (NJ), Sen. Raphael Warnock (GA), Gov. Wes Moore (MD), former President Joe Biden and former First Lady Jill Biden, former Mayor Rahm Emanuel (IL), former Rep. Anthony Weiner (NY), Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY), Sen. Joe Manchin (WV), fmr. Vice President Kamala Harris, then-mayoral candidate Zohan Mamdani, the-mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT).
Five more were former staffers of Democratic presidential administrations: the Obama-era hosts of Pod Save America (Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor), and two appearances for Karine Jean-Pierre, President Biden’s press secretary.
They had Sarah Kate Ellis of left-leaning GLAAD, who bestowed a media award for their July 2024 interview with a transgender actress. Season 29’s slate of guests was kicked off with far-left U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was hawking a book.
As for their conservative / right-leaning guests, both had major asterisks by their names.
The first one wasn’t invited on until over a month into Season 29: actress Cheryl Hines. Despite being there to hawk her own book, Hines was married to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and having her on was a way for them to beat up on him via proxy. While having left-wing politics herself, she was forced to defend her husband’s – and by extension the Trump administration’s – policies, thus she was counted as right-leaning.
The second conservative, was Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was the first GOP politician who was currently in office The View had hosted since New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu was on in August 2024. As NewsBusters reported at the time, they only had Greene on because she was being a headache for Congressional Republican leadership during the government shutdown. The cast also tried to recruit her to become a Democrat.
With the show set to return on January 5, 2026 and President Trump speaking out against her, Greene was already announced as a guest for their January 7 episode. Two days after she was set to step down from Congress and one day following Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D) making her third appearance on The View in less than a year.
It’s worth noting that after NewsBusters published our mid-year study of The View’s guest count, there appeared to be a major shake up in how many guests they spoke politics with. In our mid-year study, we found that they spoke with 102 liberal guests, while in the rest of the year they spoke with just 26. That’s a 75 percent drop.
The View also faced public controversy over their lack of conservative guests in 2025.
During the same show they grilled Hines, co-host Joy Behar claimed that Republicans wouldn’t go on the show because “they’re afraid of us.” This led to a slew of prominent conservative influencers, journalists (including NewsBusters), and politicians coming forward with evidence of the show either rejecting or ignoring their appearance requests (including people they had on previously).
The View cast responded on their podcast by suggesting most conservatives didn’t live up to the “certain caliber of guest” they felt the show demanded. Behar claimed that those reaching out were essentially just nobodies with small businesses and no influence in the party, which was just not true.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, one of the token Republicans on the panel who largely rolled over for her co-hosts’ more ridiculous claims, basically admitted they didn’t want guests who would actually push back, call them out, and trash them later.
The View did not respond to NewsBusters’ request for comment.
Clearly, The View’s title was more than just a name, it was how the show worked. Allow the one and only view: The Democratic Party’s.
Methodology: For a guest to be counted as either liberal or conservative, they needed to express such views during their appearance on The View. If a celebrity did not discuss politics, they were not included in the count of political leanings even if they had a history of being outspoken in the past. For example, actor Robert De Niro had a history of speaking out against President Trump, but was not included in the liberal count because politics did not come up.
