Sunny Hostin, co-host of The View, said that if she lived in Maine, she would 100% vote for Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine.
Hostin’s willingness to support Platner stands in sharp contrast to her earlier criticism of the candidate, in which she cited concerns about his character while discussing allegations of racism, accusations involving Nazi symbolism, claims of infidelity, and reports that he exchanged sexually explicit messages with women who were not his wife.
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Despite Hostin’s reservations of Platner being a ‘liar, racist, and antisemite,’ she expressed growing frustrations with the state of American politics as the midterm elections draw near saying, “A lot of people, a lot of good people have seen what politics have turned into, they’ve seen that the bar is very very low, they don’t want to get muddied by what’s going on in Washington,” Hostin said on The View’s “Hot Topics” segment, on Wednesday.
Hostin revealed that she’d been conflicted about the 2026 U.S. Senate elections, emphasizing the importance of personal integrity in political roles.
“I’ll say yesterday I was sort of on the fence; I’m like character matters … morals matter,” Hostin said. “I can’t believe this is the character, that this is the person in Maine, that’s gonna take on the Republican, take on Susan Collins.”
Platner has rejected allegations of racism and antisemitism and remains committed to continuing his campaign.
Hostin argued that Democrats must focus on winning control of Congress and that Platner still has her full support. “I’m now convinced that we are in a really bad place in this country,” she said. “Democrats have to take over the Senate; they have to take over the House. They have to bring some semblance of normalcy back to this.”
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Hostin pointed to recent polling showing support for Platner in Maine and suggested that political considerations outweighed her personal reservations about the Democratic candidate.
“And if it takes getting behind someone like Platner, which 51% of voters in Maine say that they will get behind as opposed to 42%, if I lived in Maine, I would hold my nose and I would pull that lever and I would vote for him,” Hostin said.
