The aged adage astir a leopard ne'er changing its spots doesn’t look to use to Alyssa Farah Griffin.
“The View” co-host and one-time Trump protagonist revealed that she voted for Kamala Harris up of Tuesday’s presidential election.
Griffin, 35, became 1 of the ABC speech show’s resident Republican voices successful 2022 aft antecedently serving arsenic an adjutant successful Donald Trump’s administration.
On Tuesday’s episode, she confessed to voting for Harris, marking the archetypal clip successful her beingness that she’s backed a Democratic nominee for POTUS.
“Four years agone today, I was successful the White House with Donald Trump connected predetermination night,” Griffin shared. “I believed helium deserved to suffer that night, astatine that point. I thought helium hadn’t fought to triumph the election, but I thought the adjacent 4 years would beryllium the Republican Party rebuilding and becoming thing I could judge successful and turning the leafage connected Donald Trump, and it didn’t bash that. So, this weekend, connected Saturday, for the archetypal clip successful my life, I voted for a Democrat.”
Griffin’s brave admittance was met with roaring applause from the assemblage arsenic the 4 Democratic-leaning co-hosts — Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines — cheered on.
Griffin past clarified that she’s inactive a Republican astatine bosom and much truthful considered her ballot “a indebtedness to [Kamala].” She added that she voted for Republican candidates down the remainder of her ballot.
“I interest the absorption that Donald Trump volition instrumentality this country, and I instrumentality my ain informing seriously,” she furthered. “I don’t hold with a batch of [Harris’] policies and we tin knock that down the road, but contiguous is astir the champion happening for the aboriginal and the aboriginal of the state is that Donald Trump volition suffer and Kamala Harris is elected.”
The erstwhile White House manager of strategical communications has been openly captious of the erstwhile world TV star-turned-politician since resigning connected Dec. 3, 2020. She said she “wasn’t comfortable” with however the medication was handling losing the predetermination weeks prior.
On Monday’s occurrence of “The View,” Griffin called Trump “the astir unsafe antheral to person ever sat successful the American presidency.”