“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin claimed on Thursday that President Joe Biden would risk losing the black vote if he chose to go into the 2024 presidential election with a running mate other than current Vice President Kamala Harris.

Hostin’s comments caused quite a stir on the ABC midday talk show, prompting a broad range of reactions from her co-hosts – even the liberal co-hosts who typically agreed with her.

WATCH:

“If Biden gets rid of Kamala Harris and inserts someone else, he will lose the Black vote.”

— In the wake of several pieces calling for Joe Biden to pick a new running mate, “The View“ co-host Sunny Hostin says Kamala Harris is necessary for Biden to win. pic.twitter.com/thzmzQG8jj

— The Recount (@therecount) September 14, 2023

Responding to Harris’ consistently low poll numbers — which Hostin has repeatedly blamed on “racism” — and calls for Biden to choose another running mate for his re-election bid, Hostin declared that Biden would lose the black vote if he dropped her from the ticket.

“Can I say this very quickly? Over the past five elections, where you’ve had a Democrat win, they needed the black vote. Ninety-one percent of African Americans voted for Biden and will continue to vote for Biden if Kamala is his running mate,” Hostin declared. “I would be very careful, President Biden, about getting rid of Kamala Harris because we will not support you.”

Whoopi Goldberg was first to object, arguing that presidents did not typically make changes to the ticket between terms. “Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold up … your opinion is valid and beautiful and all of that, but when was the last time you saw anybody get rid of a vice president?” she asked.

Co-host Sarah Haines pressed Hostin on the practicality of her position, noting that if former President Donald Trump was the Republican nominee, it could change the calculus for some even if they didn’t necessarily want to support Biden.

“If it was Biden and Trump?” Haines asked.

“If Biden … if Biden gets rid of Kamala Harris and inserts someone else, he will lose the black vote,” Hostin said again.

“Even if it’s another black woman like Val [Demings] …” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin posited.

“We’re not interchangeable,” Hostin shot back.

“And no one is saying you are, but you wouldn’t vote in an election against Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and black women wouldn’t vote?” Griffin asked.

“I think that you, I mean …” co-host Joy Behar interrupted.

“But I want to know the answer to that,” Griffin continued.

“I don’t want to whitesplain, but you might be underestimating the black community of voters,” Behar said.

Hostin disagreed, but her co-hosts continued to press her on the issue.

“You would really sit out an election – you said I was throwing my vote away if I wrote in another Republican,” Griffin reminded her cohost.

“I did,” Hostin agreed.

“Are you not throwing away your vote by not supporting Biden if he drops Harris?” Griffin asked, applying Hostin’s own logic to her position.

Goldberg interrupted then, saving Hostin from having to answer the question. “I’m sorry, y’all. She is not going anywhere. Let’s start with that. So, this is a lot of hypothetical B.S. meant to make your mind explode,” she said.

The immigrant population in the U.S. hit a record high last year as the number of both legal and illegal immigrants ramped up.

The number of U.S. residents born in another country rose by close to one million last year, reaching a record 46.2 million people, according to new U.S. Census estimates.

Immigrants are now nearly 14% of the total U.S. population, the Census data shows.

One driver of the increase is more legal immigration through visas and taking in refugees, much of which was put on hold during the pandemic. The Biden administration has accepted tens of thousands of refugees from Afghanistan, where the Taliban regained control in 2021, and Ukraine, which is at war with Russia.

At the same time, the administration has struggled to address millions of illegal migrants flooding over the nation’s southern border over the last year.

“It’s worth pointing out that these data relate to the middle of 2022, which is before a lot of the recent surges, but some of the people who came in through the southern border are included here as well, so it’s a combination of all of these factors,” Jeffrey Passel, senior demographer at the Pew Research Center, told The Daily Wire.

The U.S. is seeing an increase of people coming from particular countries south of the border, including Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, and Honduras, Passel said.

Meanwhile, the largest immigrant population in the U.S. came from Mexico, with almost 11 million immigrants, but the number of Mexican immigrants is decreasing, Passel said, and the number of El Salvadoran immigrants coming in has remained about the same for five years.

The U.S. is also seeing “significant growth” in immigrants from Africa and Asia, including China, Passel said, as well as a “large increase” in Afghan immigrants. Afghan immigrants were less than 200,000 last year but still double the number they were five years ago, he said.

Some states have seen more new immigrants settle within their borders than others.

Florida took in 200,000 immigrants last year, the biggest increase by far of any state, according to the Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP

Other states that experienced significant increases in new immigrants were Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Iowa.

Several major U.S. cities are currently scrambling to address a migrant crisis precipitated by thousands of new illegal migrants crossing the border and showing up in need of food and shelter.

In New York City, more than 110,000 migrants have arrived since last year, and 60,000 are still being housed on the city’s dime, causing officials to open additional homeless shelters.

Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, announced city-wide budget cuts to deal with the issue and warned earlier this month that the migrant crisis will “destroy” New York City.

Chicago is dealing with a similar crisis as the mayor pushes for dozens of huge tent structures that could house 200 migrants each.

Critics have warned that an insecure border is a serious national security threat since it can allow foreign nationals with unknown intentions and even terrorists to bypass border agents undetected.