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The View Goes Off the Rails as Hosts Argue Over Michelle Obama Claim [WATCH]

The View devolved into a shouting match this week as the co-hosts dissected former First Lady Michelle Obama’s claim that America isn’t ready for a woman to be president.

“As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready,” Obama said.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin rejected the claim, calling the two recent female candidates, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, “flawed.”

“I respectfully disagree with the first lady,” Griffin said. “I don’t think that we’re not ready. I think when you look at the two candidates that were Democratic nominees, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, there is sexism that plays in. They were flawed candidates.”

Griffin stressed Clinton was highly qualified but was running in an “anti-dynasty time” and met a similar fate as Jeb Bush.

Griffin’s claims didn’t exactly sit well with the other far-left co-hosts.

Co-host Sara Haines argued that Michelle Obama would win if she ever ran for president — and Griffin agreed.

Co-host Ana Navarro recalled asking Harris — during a commercial break in an October interview — about the idea that America wasn’t ready for a female president.

“She said, I refuse to tell little girls, specifically little girls of color, that they’re out of the game just because of who they are,” Navarro said, repeating Harris’ response.

But co-host Sunny Hostin pushed back. She has frequently claimed the U.S. is a misogynistic country following Harris’ loss to Trump.

“That’s great, I think that is very aspirational and that’s wonderful. Because of my lived experience, as an Afro-Latina, I’m able to look at this world with a different prism, and I’m able to tell this country and tell this audience and tell my fellow co-hosts some uncomfortable truths. This is a country based on racism and slavery, and founded in it, there is systemic racism and misogyny,” Hostin said.

She continued: “I never met anyone that raises their hand and says, ‘I’m racist.’ However, there are people that seem to be able to look the other way when it comes to racism. So you have a president who traffics in misogyny, who traffics in xenophobia, who traffics in sexism, and won against a Black woman.”

Watch the clip above.

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