Whoopi Goldberg says Vance debate performance was product of ‘good acting choices’

The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg said Wednesday that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Republican vice presidential candidate, made "good acting choices" in the first and only 2024 vice presidential debate Tuesday night.

"Keep in mind that what you saw last night was a lot of good acting choices," Goldberg said to her co-hosts as she pretended to zip her lips shut.

"J.D. Vance made a choice because it has suddenly occurred to him that he may have stepped wrongly and any good stuff he could have gotten done for his person he didn’t get done," she added. "So, there he was trying to show you this other side. My only — and we all have many sides to us, don’t get me wrong, you know, I got many sides ... but I don't want that in the White House."

Goldberg continued to suggest Vance misled the audience with his debate performance.

"I don’t want people not to know who it is they’re dealing with," Goldberg said.

Goldberg said she was disappointed that the debate wasn't fact-checked.

Her co-hosts had various takes on Vance's performance and Gov. Tim Walz's (D-MN), the Democratic vice presidential candidate.

"I think Walz was the clear winner. I’m surprised that some polls are saying something different. He was in command of the facts. He was in command of policies," co-host Sunny Hostin said.

"J.D. Vance refused to admit that Trump lost the 2020 election. He is an election denier. That, in my view, makes him not only unfit, but disqualifies him from the very office with which he is running for, and the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz campaign has taken note of it," Hostin added.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin lamented that another vice presidential pick might have done better against Vance.

"I was thinking Pete Buttigieg or Josh Shapiro would have wiped the floor. He has authenticity. He can feign empathy," she said, adding that Walz had a "rockier" night than Vance.

Co-host Sara Haines said she grew frustrated with Vance, pointing out that Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential candidate, didn't implement her proposed policies as vice president.

"J.D. Vance kept repeating, 'Why hasn’t Kamala Harris done that yet?'" Haines said exasperated.

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"Not the president," Goldberg chimed in, admitting that Harris has had minimal power over implementing the Biden administration's policies.

"He did say three times, 'Why hasn’t she done it yet?' If we have to stop it for a second to explain what a vice president does, we are really in trouble," Haines said of Vance.