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With Election Day just two weeks away and 2024 looming large, Tuesday’s edition of ABC’s The View saw the liberal cast members growing increasingly terrified of a red wave sweeping the nation, particularly in regard to Florida where Republican Governor Ron DeSantis was looking like he was cruising to reelection. But Whoopi Goldberg raged at such predictions and didn’t want to hear them. She and the rest of the liberals angrily rejected the broad public opposition to school shutdowns.
They opened the show by trying to suggest DeSantis didn’t win his debate against Democratic opponent Charlie Crist, with Joy Behar claiming DeSantis looked like he had “a stroke.” Meanwhile, they were defending Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, who actually had a stroke and was struggling to function.
After their desperate attempts to tear DeSantis down, self-described conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin popped their bubble by noting: “Florida is where Democrats may be misreading the political mood more than anywhere.” She explained that “Ron DeSantis has consistently performed ten points up over Charlie Crist,” and even “50 percent of Hispanic voters in the state of Florida supported” flying illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard.
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