Tension has returned to The View in spades aft Donald Trump‘s victory. On this morning’s section of nan deed daytime talk show, Alyssa Farah Griffin disagreed pinch Sunny Hostin astir why Americans voted to put nan erstwhile president backmost successful nan White House.
Griffin began by explaining that she has spoken to Trump voters, who felt arsenic though “life was better” erstwhile he was successful office. While Hostin described Trump’s statement arsenic “morally bankrupt,” Griffin based on that Democrats “missed nan moment” because they were “looking astatine nan micro and not nan macro” erstwhile it came to Vice President Kamala Harris‘ run strategy.
“You person group talking about, ‘Oh, well, really did he triumph Michigan?’ And Democrats are saying, ‘She should’ve talked much astir Gaza.’ No, national halls were empty,” Griffin said. “This is not astir a micro-issue for illustration Gaza. It’s group saying, ‘The costs of surviving are excessively high, wages are excessively low, my life was amended nether him.’”
According to Griffin, Americans “struggling to make ends meet” don’t attraction that Goldman Sachs and analysts astatine prestigious univerities said nan system would do amended nether Harris.
“That’s because they were bombarded pinch misinformation and disinformation,” Hostin muttered.
But Griffin ignored her arsenic she pointed to 1 Texas organization that wide voted successful favour of Trump.
“Latinos successful Texas, a territory that’s 97% Latino went 75% for Donald Trump. Why?” Griffin said, to which Hostin replied, “Misogyny.”
That group Griffin off. The erstwhile White House staffer swiftly fired back, “No, it’s connected nan border! The separator situation is connected their doorsteps. And they were begging group to attraction astir it for years! We request to return immoderate lessons.”
Still, Hostin attributed Harris’ nonaccomplishment to “misogyny and sexism,” prompting Griffin to reiterate, “The lessons were not misogyny and sexism.”
It was astatine that infinitesimal that Whoopi Goldberg intervened, playfully telling her co-hosts, “Knock, knock! Who’s there? Oh, it’s Whoopi!”
The View airs connected weekdays astatine 11/10c connected ABC.