Alyssa Farah Griffin brought down the mood on The View on Wednesday, confusing her co-hosts after declaring she was in a “good mood” and then proceeding to paint a bleak picture of President Joe Biden’s reelection chances.
“So, I am in such a good mood today and I hate to raise this point, but I have to,” began Griffin, a former top communications official in Donald Trump’s administration.
Griffin said she needed to “ring some alarm bells” and argued that young progressives upset over Biden’s support of Israel amid the country’s strikes on Israel could be enough to hand Trump a victory. It was a point made earlier this week on CNN by filmmaker Michael Moore who flat-out predicted Biden’s continued support of Israel would lose him the election.
“The election is seven months out. I don’t trust polling. I do agree with that. I think you can take it on aggregate and if the polls on aggregate are to be believed, Donald Trump may very well be president in seven months. And here’s what fear, my initial thought was him being on trial in a courtroom and not on the campaign trail was going to hurt him. I’m starting to think that it doesn’t in the same way,” Griffin said.
She continued with the reality check until Joy Behar jumped in to ask how she could be in a “good mood.”
“I think there’s a real reality right now that Joe Biden could pick up swing voters, he could pick up modern Republicans in suburban —” Griffin said before her co-host spoke up.
“Why are you in a good mood again?” Behar asked.
Griffin continued making her point.
“He could pick up all the demographics you generally need, but lose young progressives and lose the election to Donald Trump,” she said.
“You said you were in a good mood!” Behar and Sunny Hostin said at the same time in shock.
“No, I’m sorry to bring the mood down with my take, but I’m very worried,” Griffin replied.
“What’s the good mood about?” Behar asked.
“I just happen to be in one,” a laughing Griffin answered.
“What are you on some kind of drug or something?” Behar said.
“I thought we were going to get something different,” Hostin said and Sara Haines agreed.
Hostin argued voters are paying attention to Trump’s ongoing hush money trial in Manhattan and developments like his $9,000 fine for violating a gag order will blow back on him.
Biden has faced protest votes in Democratic primaries in multiple swing states over the issue of the Israel-Hamas war. In Michigan, more than 100,000 voted “uncommitted” in the Democratic primary, which Biden still easily won.
Behar made a last-ditch pitch on Wednesday for Biden to her audience, many of whom were college-age.
“You don’t have to love Joe Biden. You just have to love your freedom. That’s all you have to love,” she said.
Griffin and Behar both laughed off the exchange during a later segment after Behar was discussing keeping people’s drug prescriptions private to which Griffin joked Behar had asked her if she was on drugs on national television.
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