Alyssa Farah Griffin sees some of her former boss Donald Trump in a shocking figure: former president Joe Biden. On this morning’s episode of The View, Griffin and her co-hosts discussed the slew of books being released about the final fraught months of the 2024 presidential election, when Biden finally caved to public pressure and dropped out of the race, leaving Kamala Harris to launch her own campaign against President Trump.
As the panel dissected claims by people like Biden aide Ron Klain — who alleged there was concern about Biden’s ability to prep for debates and wrote that he would doze off by the pool sometimes — Griffin said we are living under a second Trump administration because of Biden’s refusal to drop out of the race until July 2024.
“We’re in a moment where a lot of people are scared, they’re nervous, they’re worried that we’re seeing America fundamentally changed,” Griffin began. “And a reason for that, not just a little asterisk, is that Joe Biden did not win, did not step aside in time to allow someone else to win.”
She continued, “I do think it’s a story that warrants some reflection, because even beyond the electoral consequences of Trump winning and what we’re gonna experience the next four years, I think there’s also, what I’m struck by — and I think highly of Biden,” she noted clarifying, “People always think I’m so critical just because I think he needed to step aside and give someone else a chance.”
She then suggested his reluctance to suspend his presidential campaign made him similar to a certain Donald J. Trump: “He does start to come off, the more we’re learning, like, ‘I alone can fix it.’ It almost comes off Trumpian,” Griffin suggested.
As for Ana Navarro, she said she wants nothing to do with books about the 2024 campaign and doesn’t have any interest rehashing the mess.
“These are not normal times,” she declared. “I’m not interested in palace gossip from a year-and-a-half ago.”
The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
