Ex-Trump Aide Reveals a First for Her at the Ballot Box

After months of not saying who she would vote for in the presidential election, The view co-host and former Donald Trump aide Alyssa Farah-Griffin revealed that she voted for Kamala Harris on Tuesday.

“Over the weekend, on Saturday, I voted for a Democrat for the first time in my life,” the ex-Trump White House communications adviser said on the show, adding that it was because she just wants “a kind and decent person who will bring this country together” and “I’m worried about the direction Donald Trump will take this country.”

Farah-Griffifn has been vocally critical of Trump ever since he stood against her party in protest of his usurping it. She often refers back to her time working for Trump in the White House for examples of why he is “unfit” and “dangerous” to the country. “I take my own warnings seriously. What I saw is very real,” she said Tuesday.

“Four years ago today, I was in the White House with Donald Trump on election night,” she shared. “I thought he deserved to lose at the time. I believed that he had not fought to win the election – but I believed that the next four years would be the Republican Party that would rebuild and become something that I could believe in and turn the page on Donald Trump, and it did it does not.”

That said, before Harris entered the race, Farah-Griffin said on the show that she would “enter someone” on her ballot rather than voting for Joe Biden or Donald Trump. “I don’t think I have to change my Republican values ​​because two parties are presenting options that I don’t like,” she said last April.

Since Harris entered the race, the host often praised the vice president’s “flawless” campaign but also remained critical of her political views. She would not commit to voting for Harris, said in September that she “wants to hear more” before deciding whether to vote for VP, but revealed on Tuesday that she had finally made her choice. “I consider my vote on loan to her,” Farah-Griffin said, adding that she still “voted Republican.”

“I’m a Christian, I’m an American, and I’m a Republican, in that order. And I need someone who shares my values” in the White House, she said. “I don’t agree with many of her policies, we can criticize them along the way. But today is about a brighter future, and I think the best thing for the country and the future of the Republican Party is that Donald Trump will lose and Kamala Harris will be elected,” she concluded.

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