The View's Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin clash over politics ... leading Whoopi Goldberg to intervene

The View panelists Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin clashed Monday implicit authorities connected the ABC series, with Whoopi Goldberg simmering things down arsenic the speech grew tense.

Hostin, 56, and Griffin, 35, - who person sparred earlier connected the topic - were reacting to a conception broadcast Friday connected Real Time With Bill Maher, which touched connected reasons President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris successful decisive manner earlier this month.

Hostin said she disagreed with Maher's sentiment that Democrats were deceptively playing up racism arsenic a origin successful Trump's decision of Harris, saying that it did play a role, successful summation to sexism.

'I cognize that, arsenic a country, it's precise hard for radical to judge that racism and misogyny, they're conscionable live and well,' Hostin said.

Hostin, a one-time national prosecutor, said that her beingness acquisition told her that racism and sexism 'does inactive exist, adjacent if your lived acquisition doesn't archer you that it exists.'

As a graph depicting predetermination stats was showing a drastic quality successful voting tendencies betwixt radical of colour and achromatic radical supporting Trump, Hostin noted that educated radical besides mostly voted for the Democratic candidate.

'It's not lone wide by race, it's besides wide by education,' Hostin said. 'Those who attended assemblage voted for her astatine a higher grade than those who didn't.'

Griffin said she disagreed, saying that economics yet worked against Harris, who would person been the country's archetypal pistillate president if elected.

The one-time Trump staffer said that the 'biggest communal denominator successful this predetermination was that radical privation a bully beingness and quality to supply for their family.'

Griffin said that 'there was a split' successful Black voters specifically, who posted 'historically' precocious voting totals successful favour of the Republican campaigner this predetermination cycle.

Griffin said Hostin's mentation that the 'vast bulk successful this state voted due to the fact that of racism and misogyny' was misguided, portion Hostin retorted that the statistic backed up her constituent of view.

Griffin told Hostin determination were nary discernible stats that indicated however galore achromatic radical 'voted for Donald Trump due to the fact that of racism.'

As the treatment grew much heated, the show's big Whoopi Goldberg, 69, intervened.

She told some parties to 'take a breath' and 'take a beat' amid the testy discussion.

The show's Ana Navarro, 52, said that portion she likes Maher and has been connected his HBO show, his constituent of presumption was constricted to his ain beingness experience.

'Maybe, conscionable maybe, erstwhile you unrecorded beingness arsenic a pistillate and arsenic a pistillate of color, you consciousness it and you cognize it a small spot much than a achromatic antheral does successful America,' Navarro said.

She noted, 'I deliberation astir radical are not saying that it was each astir not astir sexism and it was each astir racism - astir radical are not saying that.'

'He says that folks spot everything from racism and sexism - not everything. But if you're not seeing racism and sexism successful America, past you request to cleanable your lenses.'

The View tin beryllium seen weekdays connected ABC astatine 11/10c.