The liberal hosts of ABC’s “The View” found themselves “in mourning” and going through the various stages of grief during Friday’s broadcast as they recapped the disastrous debate between former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden.

The debate, which has reportedly caused panic within the Democratic Party, showcased all of the frailty and confusion that conservative outlets have been pointing out in Biden — and put it on display in a way that very few have even attempted to excuse or explain away.

“The View” co-host Joy Behar was one of the few, advising her co-hosts not to “get too depressed yet” — while Sunny Hostin said that she was “mourning” — and suggesting that his lackluster performance was just due to a cold giving him a hoarse voice.

“Let’s not get too depressed yet,” Joy Behar tells the panel.
Sunny Hostin says she’s “in mourning” after Biden’s disastrous debate performance.
Behar suggests Biden was just horse. pic.twitter.com/fpSP9QKwfK

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 28, 2024

Co-host Sara Haines was among those who saw the debate and said that it was time for Biden to step aside, preferably soon, in the hopes that the Democratic Party could replace him in time to have a shot at winning the presidential election in November.

“President Biden needs to step down and be replaced,” Haines said – and she suggested that perhaps his team knew that and had intentionally scheduled the debate early enough to replace him.

Saying that the debate had been “really hard to watch,” Haines went on to admit that Democrats had been working overtime to spin Biden’s age and cognitive abilities as less concerning than they really were.

“Democrats need to stop spinning the age problem. Over and over Democrats have twisted themselves into a pretzel to say, ‘Don’t believe your lying eyes,'” Haines added, admitting that she and her co-hosts had done the same.

Haines says “Democrats need to stop spinning the age problem.”
“Over and over Democrats have twisted themselves into a pretzel to say, ‘don’t believe your lying eyes'” about Biden’s age problem.
She admits The View is guilty of it too, noting they use Behar’s age as a defense. pic.twitter.com/uin8Xf1nYy

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 28, 2024

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who worked in the Trump White House and now calls the former president a “threat to democracy,” said she was surprised by how badly the debate went for Biden.

“It was stunningly worse than I expected, the performance,” she said. “Biden’s performance was so bad it eclipsed everything Donald Trump said.”

She went on to claim that “Trump world” was afraid of anyone the Democrats could replace Biden with, and said that Biden “needs to put country before his own ambition and he needs to step aside and pass the baton.”

Farah Griffin declares “Trump is a threat to American democracy,” thus Biden “needs to put country before his own ambition and he needs to step aside and pass the baton.”
She claims “Trump world is scared” of going up against another candidate. “They will wipe the floor…” pic.twitter.com/uVEHexYqKb

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 28, 2024

When it was Hostin’s turn to weigh in, she conceded that Biden had lost the debate. She then immediately pivoted to attack Trump, saying that Republicans should be the ones who had to get a new nominee.

Ana Navarro defended Biden, saying she was not ready to throw in the towel “until Joe Biden tells me he’s giving up.”

Fake conservative Ana Navarro asserts that Democrats are better humans than Republicans: “Democrats are exquisite. They’re precious. They’re idealists.”
“Until Joe Biden tells me he’s giving up, I’m not giving up on Joe Biden,” she declares. pic.twitter.com/bzWsD7UiM7

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 28, 2024

Behar jumped in to defend Biden again, suggesting that the president was actually fine and that something about the debate had thrown him off.

“This is really unbelievable,” she said, showing a clip of him speaking at a debate watch party after it was all over and saying that he hardly resembled the man who had debated Trump.

Navarro suggests Biden could still pull off a win like Bush and Obama did after poor debate performances.
Farah Griffin admits that she was so distraught after Biden lost the #CNNdebate, that she went and rewatched Reagan vs. Mondale just to see a Republican lose. pic.twitter.com/10FAYNQYt3

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 28, 2024

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday that an Oregon city’s law restricting camping on public property does not violate the Constitution’s prohibition against enacting cruel and unusual punishments under the Eighth Amendment. 

Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch said that the courts did not have the right to strike down laws enacted by the city of Grants Pass in response to the homelessness crisis. Gorsuch was joined by Justices Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett, with Clarence Thomas writing a concurring opinion. 

“The Constitution’s Eighth Amendment serves many important functions, but it does not authorize federal judges to wrest those rights and responsibilities from the American people and in their place dictate this Nation’s homelessness policy,” Gorsuch wrote. 

Previously, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Grants Pass could not enforce its restrictions on sleeping on public property if the number of publicly available beds for the homeless was less than the number of homeless estimated in the area. The city’s laws, including fines of $295 for sleeping on public property, were challenged under the Eighth Amendment on behalf of a group of homeless people in the area. 

“Yes, people will disagree over which policy responses are best; they may experiment with one set of approaches only to find later another set works better; they may find certain responses more appropriate for some communities than others,” Gorsuch wrote. “But in our democracy, that is their right. 

“Nor can a handful of federal judges begin to ‘match’ the collective wisdom the American people possess in deciding ‘how best to handle’ a pressing social question like homelessness,” he added. 

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan all dissented. 

“Sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime. For some people, sleeping outside is their only option,” Sotomayor wrote. “For people with no access to shelter, that punishes them for being homeless. That is unconscionable and unconstitutional.”

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Grants Pass Mayor Sara Bristol told the Associated Press she was grateful for the court’s decision. 

“This lawsuit was about whether cities have a right to enforce camping restrictions in public spaces, and I’m relieved that Grants Pass will be able to reclaim our city parks for recreation,” she said. “Homelessness is a complex issue, and our community has been trying to find solutions.”

Cities across the country have grappled with how to handle increasing homelessness in recent years, with an estimated 582,000 homeless in 2022.