Former Donald Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin jarred The View audience with an unsettling political prediction regarding her former boss at the White House.
The 36-year-old engaged in a passionate debate about the current state of American politics Friday morning on the ABC talk show. During a Hot Topics chat, she observed that citizens “feel like the American Dream is unattainable” and that “they just feel like the system that Washington is giving us just doesn’t work.”
Joy Behar, 82, pointed out that “we’re talking about democracy, it’s completely different” than the economic perspective from which Griffin spoke.
Griffin countered, telling her cohosts, “I think that people throw around the term ‘democracy.’ I think Democrats totally over-calculated this last election at the end of the day. If it’s a Tuesday morning and you’re deciding what bill you can afford to pay, you’re not voting on democracy, you’re voting on the cost of living.”
She added that she thinks Americans are perennially “frustrated” with many systems of government right now, while fellow Republican panelist Ana Navarro said that people had “forgotten how bad Trump was” when they headed to the polls to reelect him over Vice President Kamala Harris into the White House last year.
“I think if somebody was running now against Trump, when people have been painfully reminded of what an authoritarian he is, it would be very different,” Navarro observed, with Griffin later countering with a shocking projection.
“I’m going to say something that’s going to make this table and this audience very upset, but I want to tell the unvarnished truth,” Griffin said. “I think if the election were re-held today, Donald Trump would win by the same if not a bigger margin.”
The studio audience audibly groaned over the assessment, with Behar even jumping in to ask, “How do you say that, though?”
Griffin explained her stance that “this country is so deeply polarized,” while acknowledging that “if you hated him before, you hate him even more now,” and that “there are definitely people who are having some buyer’s remorse” over electing him.
“But there’s a poll today that shows on the top issues people voted on, they still trust Republicans more,” she said, without naming the survey. “We are literally a 48-48 country, and then this little percentage in the middle that goes either way.”
Following Harris’ loss, Griffin regularly sparred with her fellow View cohosts — particularly Sunny Hostin, who was absent from Friday’s broadcast — over assessments related to the 2024 election.
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Griffin also snapped during a discussion with Behar in May, telling the comedian, “We have Trump because you guys screwed this up!” in a condemnation of Democrat tactics.
The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.
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