The View co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin calls midterms end of MAGA
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The gist
The View co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin called the midterm results a "total and complete repudiation" of Trump.
Her remarks put a former Trump staffer's criticism of her old boss on daytime TV.
Background
Alyssa Farah Griffin is a co-host of ABC's The View and a former Trump White House communications director, described as an outspoken critic of her former boss. Democrats regained control of both the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms after flipping several traditionally conservative seats, and Farah Griffin used her daytime platform to interpret the losses for Republicans.
How it unfolded
- Nov 3, 2026On The View, Farah Griffin made a dig comparing President Trump to Martin Luther King Jr. during a Hot Topics discussion of Trump's closing midterm message at a rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool; moderator Whoopi Goldberg appeared genuinely impressed.
- Nov 4, 2026On The View, Farah Griffin called the Democrats' sweeping midterm victories a "total and complete repudiation of Donald Trump's presidency and his policies" and said she thought it was "the beginning of the end of the MAGA movement."
- Nov 4, 2026On the Behind the Table podcast with producer Brian Teta, she blamed the Republican midterm defeat in part on Trump's aggressive immigration policies and ICE enforcement tactics.
- Nov 5, 2026Farah Griffin criticized Vice President JD Vance's lengthy social media post on the midterms, saying he shouldn't have written it "like he's a cable news pundit," and cited tariffs, ICE enforcement and corruption as factors.
Key terms
- midterms
- US general elections held near the midpoint of a president's four-year term, when all House seats and about a third of Senate seats are contested.
- MAGA
- Political slogan and movement associated with Donald Trump's campaigns and his political base.
- ICE
- Federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security that enforces immigration and customs laws.
Source: Wikipedia
Who’s saying what
- Critic
- Farah Griffin said the results were a "total and complete repudiation" of Trump and called him "officially a lame duck president."
- Analysts
- She argued Republicans mistook Americans' desire for a secure border for support of increasingly extreme enforcement, and that the administration took its immigration agenda too far.
- Caution
- She said Vance's post was "missing the mark" and that deep red parts of the country going blue reflected tariffs, ICE enforcement and corruption.