‘I Don’t Think He Can Win’: Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin Put a Stop to Biden Pep Rally On ‘The View’
The View co-hosts Alyssa Farah Griffin and Sara Haines were unable to join in on the love fest for President Joe Biden at the table on Monday after Whoopi Goldberg and Ana Navarro heaped praise on the president amid calls for him to step down.
The View caught up with the latest Biden news on Monday after a brief hiatus, tackling his debate performance with Donald Trump, a followup interview with George Stephanopoulos, and a surprise Monday morning phoner with Morning Joe.
“I don’t care if he’s pooped his pants. I don’t care if he can’t put a sentence together. Show me he can’t do the job and then I’ll say, ‘okay, maybe it’s time to go,'” Goldberg declared in response to critics questioning Biden’s capacity to perform the job and beat Donald Trump at 81.
Navarro made clear she is completely behind the Biden ticket and she ripped into the media and their “zeal” to fact check Biden on his public gaffes.
“They’ve been splicing, dicing, cubing everything he says, putting it under a microscope slide and then looking at it with all sorts of magnifying glasses,” she said, adding, “Democrats need to stop making the case against Joe Biden and start making the case against Donald Trump.”
She said the media’s coverage of Biden almost feels “like malpractice.”
Sunny Hostin later joined the talk and said she was “uncomfortable” with Biden stepping down because she’s not sure the country will support Vice President Kamala Harris.
“If this country could not vote for Hillary Clinton, one of the most decorated and successful politicians and people in the world, I don’t know that Kamala Harris can beat a convicted felon,” she said.
Former Trump White House official Griffin ended the praise by questioning whether Biden fully grasped the stakes of the election.
“I’m starting to question if Biden recognizes how big of a threat Donald Trump actually is,” she said.
Griffin predicted the vice president would perform better at the top of the ticket and argued assurances of Biden’s mental capacity from those closest to him will not convince independent voters whose main exposure to the president is through debates and interviews. Griffin said Democrats are “risking a sweep in the House and the Senate” for Republicans if they stick with Biden.
Haines said she’ll be voting for Biden despite thinking he has no chance.
“I will be voting for President Biden if he is on the ballot come November for all the reasons you guys so adequately spelled out. I don’t think he can win up against Donald Trump as it stands right now. I just don’t,” she said.
Haines also pushed back on Navarro blaming the media, saying Biden’s team is to blame.
“I blame those closest to him — not the media, Ana — I blame those closest to him because by this time President [Barack] Obama had given 570 news conferences interviews, Trump had given 468. Biden’s given 164,” she said. “If they had put him out there earlier, we could have either discovered this problem with time on our hands or squelched it immediately and that’s on their hands.”
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