‘The View’ hosts argue over Trump’s victory: ‘Democrats missed the moment’

The hosts of The view argued about Kamala Harris’ loss Wednesday morning, while Alyssa Farah Griffin explained why Republicans voted for Donald Trump.

Farah Griffin is a political commentator and former director of communications in the Trump White House. She served in various roles in the Trump administration, including as assistant press secretary and director of strategic communications.

She said Democrats were too focused on narrow issues and failed to consider the bigger picture.

“I think a lot of Democrats missed the moment. They were looking at the micro issues and not the macro,” Farah Griffin said. “This isn’t about a micro issue like Gaza. It’s people saying the cost of living is too high, the wages are too low. My life felt better under him.”

Farah Griffin continued, “There are a lot of women who cared about abortion, but they were in states like Pennsylvania where they don’t have an ultra-restrictive abortion law. They voted more because they’re like — pocketbook issues matter more. than if a woman in Alabama is able to get an abortion.”

She also said that Latinos were pulling for Trump in this election.

“Hispanics in Texas, a district that is 97% Latino, went 75 percentage points for Donald Trump,” Farah Griffin said.

Trump exceeded his 2020 results across the map, including in Starr County, Texas, where he became the first Republican presidential candidate to win since 1892.

The county is considered the most Hispanic in America, with about 97 percent of its population identifying as such, according to TexasCounties.net 2020 data.

Co-host Sunny Hostin interrupted Farah Griffin and said their vote was due to misogyny.

Farah Griffin said: “No! It’s borderline, the crisis is right on their doorstep. They told people to worry about it for years.”

Hostin shot back, “No, it was sexism, it is what it is.” She acknowledged the Republican victory but claimed they are morally bankrupt.

Whoopi Goldberg chimed in and claimed that the Biden administration had no responsibility for the rising costs in the economy.

“Your pocketbooks are bad, not because the Bidens did anything, not because of the economy,” Goldberg said. “Your grocery bills are what they are because the people who own the groceries are pigs.”

Goldberg continued, “The reasons there’s high gas is not because the Bidens didn’t try to help, but because the people who control it decided I wanted more money.”

More than half of Americans believe the US economy is in worse shape now than it was when Biden took office in January 2021, according to an exclusive poll for Newsweek.

A total of 93 percent of respondents among those who found the U.S. economy to be “bad” or “very bad” thought Biden was largely responsible for it (55 percent), somewhat responsible (20 percent) or somewhat responsible (18 percent).

Among those who found the economy somewhat bad, 88 percent believed Harris was also substantially responsible for it (47 percent), somewhat responsible (21 percent), or somewhat responsible (18 percent).

Harris will preside over Congress’s certification of Trump’s victory on January 6 next year – four years since the Capitol riot that at the time appeared to push her opponent into political obscurity.

“A perfectly intelligent, qualified woman lost to a guy who simulated sex with a microphone,” Joy Behar said.

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