{"id":2610268,"date":"2026-06-03T17:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sunny-hostin-says-shed-hold-her-nose-and-vote-platner\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:20:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:20:49","slug":"sunny-hostin-says-shed-hold-her-nose-and-vote-platner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sunny-hostin-says-shed-hold-her-nose-and-vote-platner\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Hostin says she&#8217;d &#8216;hold her nose&#8217; and vote Platner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sunny Hostin, co-host of *The View*, said that despite previously criticizing Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner over allegations of racism, antisemitism, nazi-related symbolism, infidelity, and reports of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-project-disavows-co-founder-amid-reports-he-sent-sexually-explicit-messages-to-multiple-young-men\/\" title=\"Lincoln Project disavows co-founder amid reports he sent sexually explicit messages to multiple young men\">sexually explicit messages<\/a>, she would vote for him if she lived in Maine.She described herself as conflicted but emphasized that character and integrity matter, while also arguing that Democrats need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youre-really-fing-me-biden-reportedly-furious-over-manchin-spending-block\/\" title=\"\u2018You\u2019re Really F.........ing Me\u2019: Biden Reportedly Furious Over Manchin Spending Block\">win control<\/a> of Congress to restore \u201cnormalcy.\u201d Hostin pointed to polling showing Platner\u2019s support in Maine and concluded that political stakes ultimately outweigh her earlier concerns.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4590281\/the-view-graham-platner-senate-maine\/\">Sunny Hostin<\/a>, co-host of <em>The View, <\/em>said that if she lived in Maine, she would 100% vote for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4593465\/graham-platner-damage-control-memo-campaign-strategy\/\">Graham Platner<\/a>, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hostin\u2019s 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 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4588537\/platner-wife-sexually-explicit-texts-aide\/\">reports that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-view-rips-graham-platner-keep-it-in-your-pants\/\" title=\"The View rips ...: \u2018Keep it in your pants\u2019\">exchanged sexually explicit messages<\/a> with women who were not his wife.<\/a><\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>       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reservations of Platner being a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4590281\/the-view-graham-platner-senate-maine\/\">\u2018liar, racist, and antisemite<\/a>,\u2019 she expressed growing frustrations with the state of American politics as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cher-panics-as-midterms-approach-if-democrats-lose-house-or-senate-we-are-fked\/\" title=\"Cher Panics as Midterms Approach: If ... Lose House or ..., &#039;We Are F......ked&#039;\">midterm elections draw<\/a> near saying, \u201cA lot of people, a lot of good people have seen what politics have turned into, they\u2019ve seen that the bar is very very low, they don\u2019t want to get muddied by what\u2019s going on in Washington,\u201d Hostin said on <em>The View<\/em>\u2019s \u201cHot Topics\u201d segment, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hostin revealed that she\u2019d been conflicted about the 2026 U.S. Senate elections, emphasizing the importance of personal integrity in political roles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ll say yesterday I was sort of on the fence; I\u2019m like character matters \u2026 morals matter,\u201d Hostin said.\u00a0\u201cI can\u2019t believe this is the character, that this is the person in Maine, that\u2019s gonna take on the Republican, take on Susan Collins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Platner has rejected allegations of racism and antisemitism and remains committed to continuing his campaign. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sunny Hostin proclaims that she would 100% vote for Platner if she lived in Maine:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m now convinced that we are \u2014 we are really in a bad place in this country. We have to \u2014 Democrats have to take over the Senate! They have to take over the House! They have to bring some\u2026 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nQSYxYwKuB\">pic.twitter.com\/nQSYxYwKuB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/2062195058904871037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hostin argued that Democrats must focus on winning control of Congress and that Platner still has her full support. \u201cI\u2019m now convinced that we are in a really bad place in this country,\u201d she said. \u201cDemocrats have to take over the Senate; they have to take over the House. They have to bring some semblance of normalcy back to this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4591259\/joe-concha-blasts-blue-no-matter-who-the-view\/\"><strong>JOE CONCHA BLASTS \u2018BLUE NO MATTER WHO\u2019 MENTALITY ON THE VIEW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hostin pointed to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/senate\/general\/2026\/maine\/collins-vs-platner\">recent polling<\/a> showing support for Platner in Maine and suggested that political considerations outweighed her personal reservations about the Democratic candidate.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd 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,\u201d Hostin said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunny Hostin says she\u2019d \u201c100%\u201d vote for Maine Senate Democrat Graham Platner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":2610269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP19093148139201-e1780517501900.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[36238,32171,34267,32639,4351],"class_list":["post-2610268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-celebrity-news","tag-political-commentary","tag-sunny-hostin","tag-the-view","tag-voting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP19093148139201-e1780517501900.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610272,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610268\/revisions\/2610272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2610269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}