The View Tries to Recruit MTG for Democrats, Discover Horseshoe Theory

On Tuesday, Election Day, ABC’s The View broke their over-a-year streak of not having a Republican on the program by inviting on Georgia Representative Marjory Taylor Greene (R). Their motives for actually inviting her on became quickly apparent when they praised her for being a headache for congressional Republican leadership. Despite previously decrying nearly everything she said and did, they made multiple serious appeals for Greene to become a Democrat.

With the first question, co-host Joy Behar immediately sought to draw parallels between Greene and them; quipping that she was taking their “job” of “slamming Republicans”:

So, Trump is reportedly calling his MAGA cronies because they say that you're slamming Republicans too much. You're taking my job. You're slamming Republicans a lot on topics like healthcare, the Epstein files (…) So, when was the last time you spoke to him and what’s with the tension between the two of you? You may love him but he may not love you back, right now.

“[H]ere's something you all may not know about me. I think a lot of people on the left are learning that when I ran for Congress in 2020, I ran criticizing Republicans and Democrats, equally,” Greene said.

 

 

Later in the show, after Greene was describing how she was trying to protect the residents of her rural district (wanting to keep money invested in the homeland and for future generations), Behar made the overt pitch for her to switch parties:

GREENE: For me, I'm unapologetically America first and I'll do anything I can to work hard to save this country.

BEHAR: Maybe you should become a Democrat, Marjorie.

[Applause]

GREENE: I'm not a Democrat. You want to know something? I say this, I think both parties have failed. Both parties have failed.

BEHAR: This is worse. This is worse. Sorry, you know that.

GREENE: No.

BEHAR: He’s still your favorite president. He goes against everything you just said.

Greene countered by noting that Trump secured the southern border, which was an important issue for her. “That's one thing. There are so many other things to go after him on,” Behar pushed back. “That you seem to disagree on,” co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in.

 

 

Hostin was bewildered by how actually meeting Greene in person had turned her perspective upside down. She went on to admit that Greene wasn’t the cartoon The View and the rest of the media made her out to be:

HOSTIN: I’ve got to tell you. I'm sitting here just stumped. You know, because you are a very different person than I thought you were.

GREENE: Well, you've only seen me in clips –

HOSTIN: Yes! That is true.

GREENE: - and headlines and that's not fair.

HOSTIN: That is true.

Meanwhile, last month, moderator Whoopi Goldberg whined about people criticizing what they said on the show; arguing that critics didn’t know the real them.

 

 

Back on Tuesday, Hostin tried to further drive a wedge between Greene and Republicans and tried to grease the wheels of Democrats accepting her by touting how she had “grown past” her conspiracy theories:

Now, you've broken from the Republican Party on a number of issues including – besides the shutdown – such as the war in Gaza, tariffs, Trump's desire to expand A.I., foreign aid. But you've also had these clips highlighting the public, very public spats that you've had with your colleagues where your behavior some say is just unbecoming for a congresswoman. And you're promoting conspiracy theories like Q-Anon in the past. But you seem to have grown past that and I feel like I'm sitting next to a completely different Marjorie Taylor Greene. Why the change? Why the evolution?

Hostin also seemed to discover horseshoe theory for the first time:

GREENE: Well, Sunny, it's the first time you've met me.

HOSTIN: It's like you've gone so far right, it’s like you’re on the left now. It's like this [gestures a circle with her hand].

GREENE: No, I’m not on the left.

Obviously, the only reason The View decided to allow a Republican on the program was because to try to poach them for the left and to praise them being a headache for leadership.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
November 11, 2025
11:16:30 a.m. Eastern

(…)

JOY BEHAR: So, Trump is reportedly calling his MAGA cronies because they say that you're slamming Republicans too much. You're taking my job.

[Laughter]

You're slamming Republicans a lot on topics like healthcare, the Epstein files, we know he's still your favorite president. I mean, Truman is mine. I dated him.

[Laughter]

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): I did not date Donald Trump.

[Laughter]

But I do love him.

BEHAR: You do love him. Yeah.

GREENE: Yeah, I do.

BEHAR: Well, whatever. So, when was the last time you spoke to him and what’s with the tension between the two of you? You may love him but he may not love you back, right now.

GREENE: Well, that's okay. Donald Trump, he's -- he usually yells at everybody so we're all used to it. But he's the president of the United States, and here's something you all may not know about me. I think a lot of people on the left are learning that when I ran for Congress in 2020, I ran criticizing Republicans and Democrats, equally.

(…)

11:22:47 a.m. Eastern

GREENE: For me, I'm unapologetically America first and I'll do anything I can to work hard to save this country.

BEHAR: Maybe you should become a Democrat, Marjorie.

[Applause]

GREENE: I'm not a Democrat. You want to know something? I say this, I think both parties have failed. Both parties have failed.

BEHAR: This is worse. This is worse. Sorry, you know that.

GREENE: No.

BEHAR: He’s still your favorite president. He goes against everything you just said.

GREENE: Look, I like Donald Trump. I fought for him to win. I'm very thankful for the secure border. I’m friends with Laken Riley's mother. And we saw over – I serve on Homeland Security [Committee] – 12 million people came across our border, over 2 million gotaways, these are terrorists, cartesl, all kinds of criminals. We don't know where they are in the country and that affects all of us. That's a not a political party thing.

BEHAR: That's one thing. There are so many other things to go after him on.

SUNNY HOSTIN: That you seem to disagree on.

I’ve got to tell you. I'm sitting here just stumped. You know, because you are a very different person than I thought you were.

GREENE: Well, you've only seen me in clips –

HOSTIN: Yes! That is true.

GREENE: - and headlines and that's not fair.

HOSTIN: That is true.

Now, you've broken from the Republican Party on a number of issues including – besides the shutdown – such as the war in Gaza, tariffs, Trump's desire to expand A.I., foreign aid. But you've also had these clips highlighting the public, very public spats that you've had with your colleagues where your behavior some say is just unbecoming for a congresswoman. And you're promoting conspiracy theories like Q-Anon in the past. But you seem to have grown past that and I feel like I'm sitting next to a completely different Marjorie Taylor Greene. Why the change? Why the evolution?

GREENE: Well, Sunny, it's the first time you've met me.

HOSTIN: It's like you've gone so far right, it’s like you’re on the left now. It's like this [gestures a circle with her hand].

GREENE: No, I’m not on the left.

(…)