‘The View’: Alyssa Farah Griffin & Sunny Hostin Battle Over Reason for Trump’s Victory
The cohosts of The View were visibly demoralized on Thursday’s (November 7) episode as they reacted to Kamala Harris‘ concession speech and reflected, once again, on Donald Trump‘s victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Joy Behar, for one, admitted that she was feeling much less gracious than she was on Wednesday when she praised the democratic system for working. “Today, I don’t feel well. Yesterday, I felt better. Maybe it was the valium. But today I feel like we lost the Senate, Supreme Court, the executive branch, and the House [of Representatives] is on the verge of going to him. It’s pathetic. There are no checks and balances. A completely intelligent, qualified woman lost to a guy who was simulating sex with a microphone. I mean, come on America.”
Sunny Hostin then continued to share her dispirited reaction to the outcome and Harris’ speech, saying, “I felt saddened when I saw her, primarily because this is the kind of leadership we could have had… The country missed out on that, the leadership of moving forward, not going back, the leadership of someone that was trying to unify the country… It’s just going to become more divisive under someone like Donald Trump.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin went on to praise Harris for campaigning “admirably” and said there should be some discussion in the Democratic party about whether she had enough time to be successful. However, she suspected that many of Trump’s voters weren’t won over. “Some of these people would say, ‘I don’t like him. I don’t like the things he says. But I felt like my life was better under him.’ I think that a lot of Democrats missed the moment,” she explained.
“What about a postmortem on the Republican party?” Hostin challenged.
“They just swept, though,” Griffin countered.
Griffin went on to dismiss arguments that Harris should’ve talked more about the war in Gaza or abortion rights and focused on “pocketbook issues.”
“A district that’s 97 percent Latino went 75 percentage points for Donald Trump. Why?” Griffin continued.
If the question was rhetorical, Hostin didn’t care. “Misogyny,” she quickly answered before Griffin could finish her thought.
“No, it’s on the border!” Griffin then shouted. “They are on the doorstep and they were begging people to care about it for years!”
As the crosstalk escalated, Whoopi Goldberg then spoke up in her capacity as moderator, saying, “Knock knock. Who’s there? Oh my gosh, it’s Whoopi.”
Goldberg then went on to say that the reason for high grocery and gas prices was corporate greed, not Joe Biden’s administration.
After Goldberg’s take, the mood lightened when Behar’s phone went off and Goldberg joked, “You wanna get it?”
“We have to be able to laugh at something,” Hostin said.
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Hostin is offensive and rude. As an educated woman, I voted for Trump because I don't agree with Ms. Harris' stance on the issues. Just because I am a woman does not mean that I am "uneducated" if I don't believe that abortion should be used as a form of birth control, and that it is not a "basic human right" to be able to kill my unborn child just because I didn't make good decisions.
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Thank you!
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Fascists everywhere are rejoicing.
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Get rid of her hatred & small mind - men aren’t the enemy because the looser Harris lost - bye bye.
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Sunny Hostin is no better than Trump!! I voted for Harris and I am an educated white woman. She showed all of us what we already knew. She is a racist and bully!! She is hostile to anyone that does not agree with her. Her attitude toward her co-host is appalling. She displays much anger. I know longer will watch The View, as she is so quick to demean others. Surely ABC can do better than employing Sunny Hostin.
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Barbara your comment don't really matter because the people that voted for Trump are going to get a real side of him but as you know I guess him being a racist, talk about people with disabilities issues but yall praise him but like we know " GOD" has the last word
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100% agree. Sunny is by far the most deplorably arrogant of the hosts.. and including Joy and Whoopie, that’s speaks volumes. Griffin the only sensical host, as she could read the election results and conclusively state reasons DT won: Liberals totally out of touch with Americans.. Ignored border policies.. Economy.. party appears to have totally removed God, too. Kamala flip-flopped on every issue except abortion. Denouncing God at her rally?? 2022 interview where she spoke on protecting relationship with our ally, N Korea?? I voted for an orange man; I certainly would have voted for a minority woman if she was a qualified candidate.. You ladies need to broaden your news sources.. You’re def misguided..
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“A district that’s 97 percent Latino went 75 percentage points for Donald Trump. Why?” Griffin continued.
WHY?
Because they are SMARTER than you!
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No matter how I try, I can't understand what merit anyone sees in KH. She is shallow, vapid and false. Only an obsessive feminist would endorse her. If Amy Klobuchar had been the candidate, it would have made more sense.
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ITA! Harris is a flibbertigibbet. Amy K. is a legit politician.
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I can't help but think these arguments will continue for not only the next several days or four years but also for several decades to come...
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I am wallowing in schadenfreude!
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