Vice President JD Vance expressed his surprise at the reception he received from the hosts of “The View.”
Vance appeared on the show on Tuesday to promote his new spiritual memoir, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” as part of his ongoing book tour.
“I anticipated a really tough crowd, but they were actually not as harsh as I expected,” Vance shared during his appearance on “Gutfeld!” later that day.
He recounted a moment with Joy Behar, saying, “During a break, Joy Behar turned to me and said, ‘You know what? You’re, like, pretty good for a Republican.’
“I was taken aback,” Vance added. “That was a far more positive comment than I anticipated from Joy Behar.”
It wasn’t, however, all sunshine and rainbows for Vance in his debut appearance on the ABC daytime talk show.
“I thought that Sunny, the woman to my left, was going to call me a racist. In reality, it was Whoopi, the woman to my right, who called me a racist. So expectations were defied,” Vance joked.
Vance was likely referencing an exchange he had with co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who grilled him over allegations that the Trump administration watered down or removed exhibits of black history at various museums, an assertion Vance combatted.
He and “The View” co-hosts clashed on several topics, like President Trump’s recent comments about inflation as well as immigration.
Speaking with Fox News Digital ahead of the appearance on “The View,” Vance was hopeful that he’d have a productive conversation with the liberal ladies.
“It may be the optimist in me, but I just fundamentally think that most people — not everybody, but most people — even if I disagree with them, you ought to try to have a conversation with them,” Vance told Fox News Digital in a sit-down interview Monday.
“We’re going to go and try to have a good conversation. I hope they meet me halfway. I’m a little skeptical, but we’ll see,” he added.