With ABC News sounding the alarm over their own poll showing former President Trump leading President Biden by 10 points in a hypothetical head-to-head rematch, the cast of ABC’s The View were in a panic on Monday. The fact that the network they worked for was the one who conducted the poll meant little as they all took to attacking the results; with faux conservative Ana Navarro openly suggesting the pollsters were all “high” on “edibles or somethings” when they were asking the questions.
“A new ABC/Washington Post poll … [s]hows that Biden is trailing you-know-who by nearly ten points, but – but I know there are other polls that are also happening that are saying different things,” moderator Whoopi Goldberg scoffed as she led into the segment.
The other faux-conservative on the panel, Alyssa Farah Griffin called her network’s poll “an outlier” and opined about how she was “skeptical of polls” because “They were wrong in 2016, they were wrong in the midterms in 2020.”
She decried the ABC poll as “so far out of step with other polling” at there had to be “an anomaly when they were taking the poll.” Realizing she was dissing her own network, she quickly pivoted to praising her co-workers by saying, “I trust our pollsters at ABC, they're phenomenal.” She also almost said they “misrep[resented]” Trump’s lead, but she caught herself mid-word and rephrased it to “may have overstated the lead.”
Racist co-host Sunny Hostin wrote off the ABC poll and declared that she didn’t want to hear any talk of polls until Trump’s trials started:
Trump's scheduled trial dates and where they fall in the presidential primary calendar. March 4th, March 25th, March 20th. A judge has yet to set the date for Trump and his 18 co-defendants in the Georgia – Oh, I'm sorry. It's now May 20th. So, I'm happy to talk about polls and where people fall when I see that first trial. I'm happy to talk about it then, but until then, nobody needs to be talking about how Biden is doing or anything like that.
This was followed up by Navarro and her unsupported suggestion that the ABC pollsters were high on drugs when administering the questions. “I don't know what happened with this ABC poll,” she declared. “I don't know if the people asking the questions were high or the people answering the questions were high, but somebody had to have been on edibles or something else because this poll is off the charts.”
Navarro did note that “Biden needs to look at this poll, not be afraid of it, but yes learn from it” because people are unhappy with him. “People need to feel that the economy is better. The economy is better,” she falsely claimed.
Towards the end of the segment, Hostin was forced by ABC to read a legal note to reassure the viewers that, “[n]obody at ABC that was conducting the poll was high.” “I'm just doing what I'm told to do,” she quipped in response to the audience’s laughter.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
September 25, 2023
11:17:01 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: So, you know this is one of my favorite things. A new ABC/Washington Post poll -- that's tough to say. Washington Post poll. Shows that Biden is trailing you-know-who by nearly ten points, but – but I know there are other polls that are also happening that are saying different things. What is going on out there?
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: So, this ABC poll may be a bit of an outlier.
GOLDBERG: Explain what you mean.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Basically, I’m with you where I'm skeptical of polls. They were wrong in 2016, they were wrong in the midterms in 2020. But you can take information on aggregate when a lot of polls show the same thing over a period of time in different voters. One off that may be so far out of step with other polling may mean there was an anomaly when they were taking the poll. I trust our pollsters at ABC, they're phenomenal. So, I think this may have just misrep– it may have overstated the lead.
But, let me be clear. Joe Biden has a big reelection problem, and Democrats need to wake up to it, whether they want to hear it or not. On aggregate, he has the highest unapproval [sic] rating since Jimmy Carter, who we all recall didn’t go on to win reelection. He's lost massive support with black voters and Hispanic voters. Places you wouldn't think Donald Trump wouldn’t do well, but he's doing significantly better than in 2020. He’s doing way better than he was in 2020. 42 percent with Hispanic voters and 22 percent with black voters.
And one thing that's going on right now with this United Autoworkers strike. Joe Biden's going there this week, and so is Donald Trump. But Donald Trump announced he was going first, and one area Democrats have been losing in the Trump era is working class voters. I think in many ways they're seen as maybe too elitist for people who don't have college educations and Donald Trump picked up those voters.
[Goldberg makes a fart noise]
He announced he was showing up for them before Joe Biden did. It’s a problem. I don't want Donald Trump to be president, but Democrats need to wake up to the fact that Joe Biden is not a strong candidate.
GOLDBERG: Go ahead.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Can I read something?
GOLDBERG: I can see, yeah.
HOSTIN: Trump's scheduled trial dates and where they fall in the presidential primary calendar. March 4th, March 25th, March 20th. A judge has yet to set the date for Trump and his 18 co-defendants in the Georgia – Oh, I'm sorry. It's now May 20th. So, I'm happy to talk about polls and where people fall when I see that first trial. I'm happy to talk about it then, but until then, nobody needs to be talking about how Biden is doing or anything like that.
ANA NAVARRO: Actually, I don't know that we're going to see those trial dates exactly like that because I think he's going to ask for contain continuances and there will be delays because of the presidential primary.
I don't know what happened with this ABC poll. I don't know if the people asking the questions were high or the people answering the questions were high, but somebody had to have been on edibles or something else because this poll is off the charts.
That does not mean that there's not huge red flags here, and what I do know is that you cannot take the Hispanic vote for granted because you're running against a racist, you can't take the woman vote because you're running against a sexual harasser and sexual assaulter, you can’t take the black vote for granted because you’re running against a racist, you can't take the gay vote for granted because you're voting against a party that wants to ban drag queens, you know, you can't take the intelligencia vote for granted because you're running against a party that wants to ban books.
The only way to run is to run hard. And I think Joe Biden needs to look at this poll, not be afraid of it, but yes learn from it. People need to feel that the economy is better. The economy is better. Two stronger years of job growth, but it's not enough to say it, people need to feel it.
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11:21:34 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: I think a lot of the problem, a lot of the messaging comes out of the news folks. You don't hear stuff that's going on. You don't hear -- you hear, “Oh, it's dire straits.” The election is next year? What year is this?
SARA HAINES: It's 2023.
GOLDBERG: Okay, thank you. I just like to check because sometimes I’m in a different time zone.
HOSTIN: I have a legal note.
GOLDBERG: Can I --
HOSTIN: Nobody at ABC that was conducting the poll was high.
[Laughter]
I'm just doing what I'm told to do.
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