'The View' hosts 'nauseously optimistic' Harris can win election

Multiple hosts of daytime talk show "The View" on Tuesday shared their feelings about the presidential election, saying they feel both hopeful and worried about Vice President Kamala Harris's odds of winning.

Co-host Sunny Hostin began by explaining she cast a vote for Harris earlier Tuesday morning. Her feelings on the vice president's chances of success, she said, could be characterized as "nauseously optimistic."

I actually was in Pennsylvania on Sunday, because pundits are saying Pennsylvania is a make-or-break state," Hostin said. "I was very encouraged by what I saw, especially in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where a majority are Puerto Ricans, Latinos."

"They are going to take the trash out today," she added, appearing to reference a controversial joke made by a comedian at a recent rally for former President Donald Trump.

Echoing this sentiment was co-host Joy Behar, an open detractor of Trump.

"I'm also nauseously optimistic," Behar said. "Whatever happens, I feel like we're at a very good start at the moment. We either will have the first woman president or a convicted felon and so, it's historic in that way."

She went on to say that "he" has "deteriorated massively" in recent weeks.

He seems to be going down further and further and further," Behar said.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served in the Trump administration, noted during the show that she voted for "a Democrat" for the first time in her life.

"I think that is a big move for you as somebody that has been a Republican your whole life, from a Republican family," co-host Sarah Haines told Griffin. "I commend you for that. I also know, though, that standing up for something has a cost. She will get torn apart, but you did the right thing and I commend you for that."

Hosts of the show have openly supported both President Joe Biden and Harris in the lead-up to the election. Biden joined the show in September, during which he claimed he still could have beaten Trump had he not dropped out.

"The fact of the matter is my polling was always within range of beating this guy," Biden said. "I was confident I would beat Trump."

Harris also recently joined the show, where she said she would have done "not a thing" differently than Biden throughout his presidency. The comment sparked outrage among Republicans who juxtaposed that statement with her campaign's slogan of "new way forward."