ABC’s The View has been under fire for apparent violations of broadcast regulations, and the Media Research Center just handed the Federal Communications Commission the receipts.
MRC submitted a public comment to the FCC on Monday detailing just how concerning The View’s partisanship has become. For years, the hosts of The View have engaged in blatant bias, on-air electioneering and the show has not given equal time to opposing candidates running for office. Although broadcast networks are bound by certain rules, especially with regard to coverage in the lead-up to elections, Disney’s ABC has argued that The View is a bona fide news interview program—one of the rare exceptions to the FCC’s Equal Opportunities requirement—and is therefore exempt from fair and equal coverage. However, MRC’s 2,473 pieces, including eight studies submitted as exhibits, would suggest otherwise.
“While The View may once have qualified for an exemption, the evidence shows that it has for years operated for political purposes and is therefore not entitled to an exemption to the law,” MRC President David Bozell wrote in the comment. “MRC has the documentation to demonstrate that The View is a partisan political operation that advocates for Democrats and their party, against President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans, and for the political priorities of the left.”
MRC cited examples of electioneering like cohost Ana Navarro explicitly telling viewers, “if Americans want [President Trump’s presidency] to end, want the abuses of power checked, they have got to vote Democrats in November, period.” Cohost Sunny Hostin similarly disparaged Republicans to the benefit of Democrats. “Get rid of Republicans, get rid of the party. The party as it stands now – because it’s the party of white supremacy, it’s the party of insurrectionists, it’s the party of massacres, at this point. It’s the party that you just – you can’t trust it,” she said.
Media Research Center also highlighted that The View’s executive producer Brian Teta, who, prior to the presidential election in 2024, said that the show would not be asking then-candidate Donald Trump for an interview. Conversely, he expected that the show would soon host then-President Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, MRC studies have repeatedly shown that the number of Democrat-aligned guests far exceeds the number of Republican-aligned guests. Between January and April this year, an MRC study showed that The View interviewed twenty-seven Democrat-aligned guests, including eight elected officials, but had only one Republican-aligned guest. A similar MRC study showed that in 2025, “The View hosted 128 Democrat-aligned guests, including eight sitting Democrat Senators, but featured only a single Republican.”
In the comment, MRC emphasized that the FCC must enforce the law, referencing the federal government’s defunding of public funds for National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). “Until now, the Commission has turned a blind eye to ABC’s violation of federal equal opportunity law,” wrote the MRC. “By defunding CPB, Congress and President Trump have sent a clear message that this type of noncompliance is no longer tolerated. Agencies that let public resources be steered to partisan political activities do so at their own peril.” [Emphasis added].
The last day to comment on this issue taken up by the FCC was July 22, 2026.
