Proving just how useless she was at being the purported voice for conservatives on ABC News’s The View, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin contributed to the show’s praise for the so-called “No Kings” rallies by fretting that Democrats would be unable to capitalize on it and harness it for the midterm elections. She also asked Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) if the future of the Democratic Party and the way to boost their voter registration was to move further to the left.
Ignoring the inciting rhetoric and murderous imagery against conservatives present at the rallies, Farah Griffin began by lauding them. “I think it's always a good thing when people are civically engaged. I think left, right, or center if you’re showing up you’re peacefully assembling, that’s something I applaud,” she proclaimed.
As Farah Griffin began to pivot to questioning if Democrats were up to the challenge to utilize the protests’ energy for their get-out-the-vote efforts, citing how bad their registration numbers were, she was interrupted by moderator Whoopi Goldberg. Goldberg couldn’t stomach any criticism directed at Democrats, so she tried to make it an “everybody” problem:
FARAH GRIFFIN: My question is, will this momentum turn into tangible organizing? That's the open question here, cause there's some pretty glaring stats that I think Democrats have to kind of come to grips with. One is –
GOLDBEG: How about everybody has to come to – Yeah. Yeah.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Everybody. Because it goes for everyone. Democrats are hemorrhaging voters. So Republicans gained 2.5 million voters in the last four years. Democrats lost 2.1 million. So they actually have a net loss of 4 million votes they have to gain.
Attempting to complete her point, Farah Griffin noted that Democrats were only able to register 190 Democrats in 2025 so far, only to be interrupted again; this time by pretend independent Sara Haines:
FARAH GRIFFIN: And in California roughly this year, they've only registered 190 Democrats. 190.
HAINES: What’s the age range?
FARAH GRIFFIN: GOP -- I don't know, but the GOP got 66,000, which is isn't huge, but this has to translate into organizing.
“So, a movement like this matters if it turns into something tangible and actually getting voters out or could fall flat like the Women's March. It was huge and it felt powerful and then it kind of just petered out,” Farah Griffin warned them.
Her curious concern for the future of the Democratic Party’s electoral prospects continued into their interview with Sanders:
Well, and Senator, as you mentioned, this weekend’s rallies drew millions and you've also been touring the country with Representative AOC on your Fight the Oligarchy Tour, which is also the name of your new book. And you've drawn tens of thousands at every event including some red states. But I want to ask, how do you see this momentum translating into outcomes? Because right now, the Democratic Party has the lowest approval rating in 35 years and they lag Republicans in new voter registration by four-and-a-half million votes.
That urging for the Democrats to move further left, was a priority for extremist co-host Sunny Hostin:
Now Senator, you've been campaigning with the front-runner in New York City's mayoral race: fellow democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani. He's leading by double digits. He probably will be the next mayor of New York. Now, a recent Gallup poll showed that over half of Democratic voters prefer socialist aligned figures like yourself, like AOC, like Mamdani, to more establishment, centrist politicians. Is this the direction the Democratic Party needs to go?
The other fake Republican on the panel, Ana Navarro seemed to think she caught Republicans in a double standard in how they criticized the Democratic base as pro-Hamas and pro-criminal when they didn’t like being called “deplorables”:
You know, I'm so old I remember when they had a cow over Hillary Clinton calling some of Trump supporters deplorables, but somehow calling Democrats Hamas, illegal aliens, and violent criminals is okay. You think this is performative or do you think this is actually how they feel about their fellow Americans who happen to be Democrats?
In reality, she exposed her own hypocrisy, since she had compared black artists who performed at President Trump’s second inauguration to “trained seals,” claimed black and Latinos could be “white supremacists,” and suggested Secretary Marco Rubio was a race traitor.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
October 20, 2025
11:07:15 a.m. Eastern(…)
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think it's always a good thing when people are civically engaged. I think left, right, or center if you’re showing up you’re peacefully assembling, that’s something I applaud. My question is, will this momentum turn into tangible organizing? That's the open question here, cause there's some pretty glaring stats that I think Democrats have to kind of come to grips with. One is –
WHOOPI GOLDBEG: How about everybody has to come to – Yeah. Yeah.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Everybody. Because it goes for everyone.
Democrats are hemorrhaging voters. So Republicans gained 2.5 million voters in the last four years. Democrats lost 2.1 million. So they actually have a net loss of 4 million votes they have to gain.
And in California roughly this year, they've only registered 190 Democrats. 190.
SARA HAINES: What’s the age range?
FARAH GRIFFIN: GOP -- I don't know, but the GOP got 66,000, which is isn't huge, but this has to translate into organizing. We talk about what Trump's been doing. He's playing a ten-year game. He's at every level. He’s got his people elected as state – you know, school officials and school boards, they've got think tanks, they’ve got voter registration on college campuses.
So, a movement like this matters if it turns into something tangible and actually getting voters out or could fall flat like the Women's March. It was huge and it felt powerful and then it kind of just petered out. So, I’m curious to see what happens next.
(…)
11:18:48 a.m. Eastern
ANA NAVARRO: Can we talk a minute about your Republican colleagues and their reaction to these protests? They've been pretty dismissive. In fact, they’ve not been dismissive. It's really gotten under their thin little skin. And Mike Johnson was calling it a “hate America rally.” Trump called protesters whacked out and put out that video dumping sewage on them. Coming on the heels of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who called Democrats’ main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.
You know, I'm so old I remember when they had a cow over Hillary Clinton calling some of Trump supporters deplorables, but somehow calling Democrats Hamas, illegal aliens, and violent criminals is okay. You think this is performative or do you think this is actually how they feel about their fellow Americans who happen to be Democrats?
(…)
11:21:04 a.m. Eastern
FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, and Senator, as you mentioned, this weekend’s rallies drew millions and you've also been touring the country with Representative AOC on your Fight the Oligarchy Tour, which is also the name of your new book. And you've drawn tens of thousands at every event including some red states.
But I want to ask, how do you see this momentum translating into outcomes? Because right now, the Democratic Party has the lowest approval rating in 35 years and they lag Republicans in new voter registration by four-and-a-half million votes.
(…)
11:33:15 a.m. Eastern
SUNNY HOSTIN: Now Senator, you've been campaigning with the front-runner in New York City's mayoral race: fellow democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani. He's leading by double digits. He probably will be the next mayor of New York.
Now, a recent Gallup poll showed that over half of Democratic voters prefer socialist aligned figures like yourself, like AOC, like Mamdani, to more establishment, centrist politicians. Is this the direction the Democratic Party needs to go?
(…)
