Remember that time Kamala Harris went on “The View” and it wrecked her campaign? Good times.

“If anything, would you have done something differently than President [Joe] Biden during the past four years?” Sunny Hostin asked Harris in what she clearly thought was a softball question. Harris swung and missed: “There is not a thing that comes to mind.”

Yeah, I’d say a signature failure for both Biden and Harris was “things not coming to mind.”

Reflecting on that moment a year later in her book, Harris wrote, “I had no idea I’d just pulled the pin on a hand grenade.” And, revisiting “The View” in September last year, she complained about the differences with Biden, saying, “I thought it was obvious.” Maybe that’s because she thought only in terms of sex and skin color.

At the time of her original gaffe, JD Vance roasted her: “Kamala Harris’s entire campaign is to pretend that she hasn’t been the vice president for the last three and a half years.” Clearly, voters saw the problem.

Yesterday, it was Vance’s turn on “The View,” which he visited partly to promote his new book, Communion, though most of the conversation went elsewhere. From the moment he walked on stage, he showed what an upgrade he is in the office of vice president.

Greeting the (ahem) ladies of the show, he joked, “This is a show of MAGA Republicans, right? That’s what my media team told me.”

Nervous laughter all around. The women on the panel proceeded to challenge Vance on several major issues.

“President [Donald] Trump has called affordability a hoax,” Joy Behar told him. She pointed to the ballroom, the Reflecting Pool, and the White House cage match to ask, “What is he spending all this money for?”

Vance was ready. “What the president said is the idea that Republicans caused the affordability problem is a hoax. And I think that’s true. If you go back to the Biden administration, inflation got up to 9%. … Right now it’s at 3.5% — by the way, too high. [Editor’s note: It actually reached 4.2% in the latest report.] We’re doing everything we can to bring it back down to 2.5%, which is where most people would like to see it. But we inherited an affordability problem. We’re doing a lot to make it better.”

Challenged on Trump’s foolish “I love the inflation” remark, Vance chuckled and explained it much the same way I did: Trump meant that because inflation is tied to the war in Iran, it’ll come down when that’s over. He pointed to many economic markers that are positive for American families, too.

On immigration, Hostin complained that the “majority don’t have criminal records” and that Team Trump is “separating families.” Everyone who crosses the border illegally has committed a crime. What does that make them?

Vance talked about never wanting to dehumanize people as a setup to addressing kids. “During the last administration, we had tens of thousands of children who were sex-trafficked by cartels, who were brought into our country in profoundly dangerous and predatory conditions,” he noted. “Unless you enforce the border, you invite that kind of conduct. You think that our immigration policies are ‘inhumane’ based on the reporting of one person with a political bias. What I’m telling you is that it’s inhumane to allow cartels to sex traffic people across the border.”

He’s absolutely right.

Predictably, Whoopi Goldberg, backed by Hostin, raised racial grievances. “What did black people do to this administration that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color?” Goldberg asked. “And you know how hard it is, you have folks of color in your family. So when you see … the Emmett Till stuff coming down or them doing all kinds of removal of information, of black heroes … how does that sit with you?”

Vance asked her to clarify “what exactly” she meant, and she was stumped. “The museums,” she rambled. Hostin chimed in, “Black history getting erased from public spaces.” These are apparently references to the administration’s work to get cultural Marxism out of the Smithsonian. Hostin also complained about how “black voter districts are being dismantled,” which is a reference to the Supreme Court striking down racist segregation of voters to produce more Democrat districts.

In other words, “The View” ladies want to perpetuate racism, and they’re mad at Team Trump for not playing along.

So, Vance masterfully pointed to something that makes a real difference in the lives of black Americans. “Look at Washington, DC,” he said. “One of the most Democratic and one of the blackest — by share of population, blackest — cities in the United States of America, has seen a radical decrease in violent crimes, and sexual assaults, and in murders. We have tried to take the crime issue seriously in part because we believe everybody, whether you are black or white or rich or poor, deserves to live in a safe neighborhood.”

Goldberg retorted, “This isn’t about crime.” Indeed, to her, it’s not about the fact that blacks victimize each other at an alarmingly high rate. It’s that she wants the Smithsonian and other institutions to promote and perpetuate racial grievances, and for blacks to receive preferential treatment.

Finally, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Jeffrey Epstein, since the guy always seems to come up. Vance admitted that he’s “kind of a conspiracy theorist on the Epstein stuff,” but he also strongly defended Trump, arguing that he “narced on him to the police.” There’s no “there” there on Trump and Epstein, and the conversation didn’t amount to much.

It’s difficult to sum up Vance’s trip to “The View,” but I suppose I’d note this: He’s very comfortable in his own skin, and he winsomely addresses direct challenges — even vehement ones when he’s surrounded by angry women. That takes special talent and skill, and it will serve him well in the future. Later this week, it’s off to try to sign that elusive Iran deal…

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