The View Reacts To Trump Win, From 'This Is A Moment For Us To Listen' To 'Profoundly Disturbed' — WATCH
The hosts of ABC's The View were quite rational when post morteming former President Donald Tump's election win.
As of Wednesday at 11 am ET, Republican candidate Trump is thus far projected to claim 276 electoral votes to Democratic nominee/Vice President Kamala Harris' 223. Trump also looks to emerge with an edge in the popular vote — by smaller margins than President Joe Biden in 2020, but still, a feat no Republican presidential candidate has managed in 20 years.
With his victory, Trump becomes the first candidate to win the presidency in two non-consecutive terms in more than 130 years, since Grover Cleveland it in 1892. And at age 78, he is also now the oldest man ever elected president, breaking the record held by Biden.
Opening Wednesday morning's telecast, View hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin collectively agreed that the United States' democratic election system worked, with Griffin — a former Trump staffer — suggesting, "This is a moment for us to listen to each other... to the voters."
Navarro opined that "history slipped through our fingers again," as Vice President Kamala Harris (like Hillary Clinton in 2016) failed to become the first female POTUS. "Today we can be sad," she said, but "we will not stop fighting."
Behar suggested a disconnect with "the state of democracy" being a top election issue (per exit poll)s, yet voters elected a convicted felon who inspired an insurrection and has spoken of being a "dictator" in his second term. Do Trump backers simply think he is lying about such things? "I hope they're right," Behar shrugged.
Whoopi celebrated all that Harris accomplished "in two months!" after President Joe Biden bowed out of the 2024 election, but at the end of the day, "people didn't come out" to vote blue, she observed, "and I don't know why."
Hostin had the strongest words for the presidential election result, saying it has left her "profoundly disturbed."
"We know now" that Trump will seek "unfettered power" in his second term, Hostin pointed out. And where she, as a fellow Black woman, had been "so hopeful" for a Harris win, Hostin instead finds herself worrying about the future of healthcare, the elderly, and her children's future — including "my daughter, who now has less rights than I do."
Trump, addressing supporters on Election Night at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, promised that "we're going to help our country heal," adding: "This is the greatest political movement of all time, there's never been anything like this.... This will forever be remembered as the day the American people regained control of their country."