Whoopi Goldberg, moderator for ABC News’s The View, spoke out against former President Donald Trump at a Monday night campaign event for Vice President Kamala Harris titled Broadway Rallies for Kamala. While on stage, she proclaimed that they were all in “the fight of our lives” this elections cycle. But NewsBusters research found that none of The View cast has given money to Harris since she became the Democratic nominee.
During the exclusive event on Broadway, Goldberg declared that “we are in the fight of our lives”:
If you’re straight. If you’re gay. If you’re a woman. If you’re black. If you’re Asian. Where ever you come from. If you’re Hispanic. This is the fight of our lives. And if we lose this, it is because we didn’t do everything we could do. So, I’m begging you all, do everything. Sign up for everything. Do as much as you can. Do what you can.”
She also demanded the audience pressure “the young people” because “they don’t know any better. They were little kids the last time that clown was president. They didn’t have to think about it because they were little kids. Now, you got to teach them.”
Goldberg’s efforts to raise money and get out the vote for Harris tracked with a recent Media Research Center study that showed that The View’s coverage of Trump was 100 percent negative and 100 percent positive for Harris.
But, while Goldberg was helping to raise money for Harris, NewsBusters analysis of Open Secrets campaign contribution data discovered that, as of the posting of this piece, she had not put her money where her mouth was.
According to Open Secrets, Goldberg had not contributed to any political campaign or SuperPAC in 30 years. In 1994, she gave a series of four $1,000 contributions to Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) (x2), DNC Services Corp, and Michael Farber (D).
NewsBusters did not find any donation information under Goldberg’s real name “Caryn Elaine Johnson.”
As for the rest of The View cast, according to the available data via Open Secrets, none of them have given money to Harris despite all of them either openly endorsing her or taking part in campaign events.
Joy Behar hasn’t donated any money in the 2024 cycle, with her most recent donations going to New York Democrat Robert Zimmerman’s losing fight against Republican George Santos in NY-3 in 2022 (2 $1,000 donations for the primary and general elections), and $50 to Democrat Beto O’Rourke’s failed 2022 Senate campaign against Ted Cruz (R) in Texas. She also gave $250 to The Lincoln Project in 2020.
The only cast member to donate to any campaign in 2024 was Sunny Hostin, who donated under her real name “Asuncion Hostin.” In 2024, she donated to Democrat Nate Douglas in his run for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives (she lives in New York). In 2020, three days after election day, she gave $333 each to the Senate campaigns of Georgia Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, and Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight PAC.
In 2008, she gave a total of $1,250 to Barack Obama (D), and $420 to Hillary Clinton’s Senate run in 2006.
Searching for Ana Navarro was a bit trickier since she has a common name, but she did give President Joe Biden two payments of $250 for his 2020 run (primary and general elections). She also gave $287 to Harris in 2019 for her first bid for president. The records also show that back when she supported the Republican Party, she did donate to their candidates going back many years.
There were no contribution records for both Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin. It’s worth noting that Farah Griffin did headline an anti-Trump campaign event in the swing state of Pennsylvania earlier this month.
In recent days, The View cast has called Trump “an existential threat to humanity,” suggested Nazi-style death camps were coming to the U.S., claimed Kristallnacht 2.0 was on the way, and demanded the media do more for Harris.
Their utter lack of contributions to the candidate they claimed was America’s savior (and who they introduced as "the next president of the United States") should bring pause to those who watch the show and give weight to their opinions. If they won’t put their money where their mouth was during what they insisted was “the fight of our lives,” one should ask why that was.
