The hosts of ABC’s midday talk show “The View” aired their grievances about a recent poll showing former President Donald Trump beating President Joe Biden in a head-to-head match-up.
The cohosts addressed the poll in question — which showed Trump holding a ten-point lead over Biden — during Monday’s broadcast.
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The View freaks out and attacks a poll from their own network (ABC) because it shows Trump up 10 points over Biden.
Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin calls the poll "an outlier."
But she warns that Biden has a reelection problem with poor approval ratings and other things. pic.twitter.com/2qr5AEnbSR— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 25, 2023
Republican cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin attempted to qualify the results, suggesting that the poll was “an outlier” — but she did note that Biden certainly has some weak points going into his 2024 reelection campaign.
Griffin pointed to his consistently low job approval ratings — and concerns from both sides of the political aisle about his advanced age and mental acuity.
Cohost Sunny Hostin turned the attack on Trump then, arguing that the polls meant nothing as long as Trump’s trials had not yet begun.
Ana Navarro suggested that the pollsters had been “high” when they gave their responses, and went on to claim that the economy was in better shape under Biden — despite other polls showing that nearly half of Americans believed that they were worse off financially since Biden had taken office.
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Whoopi says the "problem" is the "messaging" from the news media is off and they're not striking enough fear of Trump getting reelected.
Sunny is forced to read a legal note saying ABC's pollsters were not "high" when conducting the poll and they abruptly ended the segment. pic.twitter.com/SaHmFVpyIL— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 25, 2023
Whoopi Goldberg weighed in next, blaming the media for not doing enough to scare people off from voting for former President Trump and suggesting that if media outlets were better at “messaging,” no one would support him anyway.
Hostin spoke up again then, saying that the network had called on her to read a legal note — after which she conceded that the people polled had not, in fact, been “high” (as Navarro had suggested) when they gave their responses on the ABC poll.