The View host Joy Behar claimed Democratic voters would prefer to vote for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who recently suffered a heart attack, instead of a woman. Her comments came in response to co-host Sunny Hostin saying the previous 45 presidents have "all been men."

"They'd rather vote for a 78-year-old socialist, who just had a heart attack, than a woman," said Behar.

"I think that's probably accurate," replied Hostin.

Sanders, 77, has found himself in the middle of a heated feud with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren after his campaign team released an internal document that instructed attacks on Warren's "affluent" voter base.

Warren, 70, then claimed Sanders disagreed with her belief that a woman could win the presidency during a private meeting in her Washington home in 2018.

The spat comes on the day of the seventh, and last, Democratic debate before Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucus.