The View cohosts – all of whom, including Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin, supported Kamala Harris for president – reacted today with varying degrees of anger, disappointment and optimism to the victory of Donald Trump. “So, what happened last night?,” joked moderator Whoopi Goldberg to kick off the Hot Topics discussion. “Anybody do anything interesting?” Here’s a rundown of edited and condensed comments from the cohosts: Joy Behar: My takeaway is that the system works, we live in a democracy, people spoke…I vehemently disagree with the decision that Americans made, but I feel very, very hopeful that we have a Democratic system in this country.
We should value it, we should love it, we should protest if the situation arises that we need to protest which I’m sure it will.
I’ve been through this before with Nixon. It’s been very difficult but boy oh boy do we have a country. If we can keep it.” Sara Haines: “What I always tell my kids is you feel what you feel, everyone has different emotions, some people got what they wanted, a lot of people didn’t…And you take one step in front of the other.
So here we are today and I still feel optimistic because I feel arm in arm with so many people who agree with me and i’m not going to stop marching.” Alyssa Farah Griffin: “Is it the outcome I wanted?
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