JD Vance wins grudging praise from Joy Behar on 'The View,' who tells him to run for president

"The View" co-host Joy Behar told Vice President JD Vance during a commercial break on the liberal talk show on Tuesday that he should run for president.

"You told him during the break that he should run for president because he has a good vibe," executive producer Brian Teta said during the show's "Behind the Table" podcast while speaking to Behar.

"I think that, even though, for a Republican. Mind you, I'm not a Republican," Behar confirmed.

Vance appeared on the show to discuss his new book, "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith," and was pressed on various topics, including Jeffrey Epstein, immigration, the economy and more.

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"I think possibly, I voted for Michael Bloomberg once for mayor who was supposed --- Bloomberg supposedly was a Republican," Behar continued. "I don't mind a Republican on the city level because it needs a little discipline. But on the national level, I want somebody with a good heart. And those are more in the Democratic Party, in my opinion."

"They care about the poor. They help people," she added. "The Republican Party is much more about saving taxes for rich people. So, I'm not a Republican."

Behar, who regularly criticizes the Trump administration and Republicans on the show, also told Vance he was "fine" during a commercial break on the show on Tuesday.

Vance brought it up upon returning from commercial and said, "Joy said when we were off air that I’m 'fine,' which I think is about the best endorsement I’m gonna get out of Joy Behar."

Behar responded, "For a Republican."

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Behar floated Vance facing off in 2028 against California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

"Truthfully, as I said to you in the beginning of this conversation, I don't think that he's a bad guy," she said to Teta on "Behind the Table." "So, if he runs against, say, Gavin Newsom, that'll be an interesting debate to see those two because they're both intelligent."

Vance sparred with the co-hosts over the economy, immigration and Black history, which co-host Sunny Hostin repeatedly insisted had been erased by the administration.

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The vice president told "Gutfeld!" on Tuesday night that he was surprised by how the liberal hosts treated him.

"I expected them to be absolutely vicious, and they were only a little bit vicious. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be," Vance said.

"I thought that Sunny, the woman to my left, was going to call me a racist. In reality, it was Whoopi, the woman to my right, who called me a racist. So expectations were defied," Vance joked.