If Vice President JD Vance decides to run for the nation’s top office in 2028, he already has one unlikely endorsement — albeit an unofficial one — from Joy Behar.
When Vance appeared on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The View,” no one expected him to get along with the decidedly liberal and vocally anti-Trump hosts of the ABC talk show — and certainly, no one expected him to walk away from the table with one of them encouraging him to run for president — but that is what happened.
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Joy Behar admits she’s smitten for JD Vance and asked him to run for President backstage “because he has a good vibe” and is “intelligent” after his appearance on The View:
“I don’t believe that he’s a bad guy.” pic.twitter.com/MOvQM5eTZ6
— Danny De Urbina (@dannydeurbina) June 17, 2026
Following Tuesday’s broadcast, Behar sat down with longtime executive producer Brian Teta for the “Behind the Table” podcast — and they jumped right into a conversation about Vance’s appearance and how he’d surprised them by being genuinely funny.
“Listen, he talked about his giant head for a while. I enjoyed that,” Teta smiled, referencing Vance’s claim that people often only saw his big head and didn’t notice he was tall. “He sat down with a joke, I thought that was pretty good, his press team told him that this was a table of MAGA Republicans —”
“Yeah, that was funny,” Behar agreed.
“And apparently — oh, I’m getting a note here — you told him during the break that he should run for president because he has a good vibe,” Teta said then, turning to Behar for a response.
“I think that even though — for a Republican, mind you, I’m not a Republican,” Behar said. “I think possibly I voted for Michael Bloomberg once for mayor, who was supposedly — supposedly he was a Republican. I don’t mind a Republican on the city level because it needs a little discipline. But on the national level, I want somebody with a good heart, and those are more in the Democratic Party in my opinion.”
“They care about the poor, they help people,” Behar continued, adding, “The Republican Party is more about saving taxes for rich people, so I’m not a Republican.”
Teta interjected then to say that Vance had admitted backstage that appearing on “The View” had made him more nervous than preparing for his vice presidential debate against Governor Tim Walz (D-MN).
“He should be,” Behar shot back, arguing that the ladies with whom she shared the table brought “many receipts” when they presented their questions. “Truthfully, as I said to you in the beginning of this conversation, I don’t think that he’s a bad guy. So if he runs against, say, [Governor] Gavin Newsom (D-CA), that will be an interesting debate to see those two because they’re both intelligent.”
During the podcast, Behar and Teta also revealed that Vance had set no ground rules for the interview — meaning that they could ask him absolutely anything and he had no advance knowledge of what they might want to talk about — and that he’d agreed to those terms without contest.
Teta then said the most important thing about the interview was the “bar” it set — meaning that any future presidential or vice presidential candidate would be unwise to refuse an appearance on “The View.”
“They all will. They have to stop here. They want the female vote,” Behar declared, suggesting that candidates could only access American female voters through their show.
Teta said he’d like to invite Secretary of State Marco Rubio to appear, and Behar shot back, “We’ll put him on with Ana Navarro, that will be interesting to watch. Talk about a cage match.”
On their podcast, The View proclaims that “the bar is set” and presidential candidates NEED to come on the show like VP Vance.
Joy Behar Suggests The View is the gatekeepers to “the female vote.” pic.twitter.com/7oIlQK0Uzc— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 17, 2026
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