The atmosphere was electric on the set of The View as the panelists dissected George Clooney's explosive op-ed in The New York Times, in which he implored President Joe Biden to step aside from the 2024 election.
The panel was divided, with some expressing annoyance that Clooney had aired his views publicly, while others supported his plea for a fresh Democratic candidate.
According to The Decider, Alyssa Farah Griffin, the Republican co-host and former Donald Trump White House staffer, who has since distanced herself from her previous employer without endorsing Biden, made her stance clear on the show. She declared, "Joe Biden's feelings don't matter more than our country."
Griffin argued that individuals like Clooney are "people who want to see Donald Trump defeated" and are "not doing this for fun or for sport they wanted to see Joe Biden do better." She further stated, "There's no historic example of someone being behind the margin of error in every single battleground state, save one, and coming back in three-and-a-half months and winning. We are staring down the barrel of Donald Trump being president elect in three-and-a-half months, and this is the time for Democrats to set their feelings aside and make a change."
Ana Navarro, on the other hand, continued to express her unwavering support for Biden, while subtly criticizing his detractors. She asserted, "I will be damned if I use whatever little platform I have to demean and weaken our Commander-in-Chief and the one man standing between Donald Trump and the White House."
Navarro proceeded to challenge the journalists who were "breathlessly" covering the Parkinson's specialist who had visited the White House eight times over eight months, as reported by The New York Times. "The man has been part of the White House medical unit since 2012," she noted. "When Obama was president, the man visited the White House over 20 times. Did Barack Obama have Parkinson's?! No."
Griffin interjected, "Those are perfectly legitimate questions that, if they were asked in the Trump administration, you guys would be praising because we deserve the answers, even if it's not the answer that the media thought they were gonna get."
Navarro retorted that Americans "didn't know how many times this guy went" to the Trump White House because his administration "didn't reveal the visitor logs," but Griffin persisted. "We need to have a consistency on transparency, no matter who the Commander-in-Chief is, and we should have a consistency of respecting the free press for doing their job regardless of who the Commander-in-Chief is," she insisted.
After Sunny Hostin supported Navarro, agreeing that "there was no consistency in the Trump administration because they weren't releasing the logs," Griffin alleged that Americans are "being gaslit by the Biden administration every day," a comment her co-hosts seemed to overlook as they continued their discussion.
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