Alyssa Farah Griffin slams ‘The View’ co-hosts for initially backing Graham Platner

Alyssa Farah Griffin ripped her fellow co-hosts on “The View” over their initial backing of the controversial Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner.
The co-hosts on Thursday debated how much character matters among political candidates today, quickly turning to Platner’s candidacy, which had, at one point, garnered the backing from prominent Democrats, including New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass).
“I don’t know that I’m convinced either party puts up the best people. I’m just going to be honest,” Farah Griffin said, before turning to Platner. “Like I love you guys, but a lot of you guys defended a guy with the Nazi tattoo who is credibly accused of a number of things.”
Platner dropped out of Maine’s senate race earlier this month amid sexual assault allegations from a former partner.
Following Farah Griffin’s reminder of their initial support of the political candidate, the hosts of “The View” quickly pushed back, as Farah Griffin conceded that they did walk it back.
“Don’t look at me. I did not,” Joy Behar said.
“I did, but I didn’t know most of the background,” Sunny Hostin said.
Hostin said she would support Platner multiple times in the last few months despite his many controversies, including the Nazi-linked tattoo.
However, the co-host said Platner should exit the race after he faced multiple allegations of sexual abuse.
“I didn’t see that tattoo as a Nazi thing,” Whoopi Goldberg said for her part. “No one ever told me that that tattoo — what that was. And I say, it’s not up to us. It’s up to the people who are voting in that state.”
Later on, co-host Sara Haines argued that actual policy is not the highest item on the priority list of voters anymore.
“People are looking for people with character, integrity,” she said. “And policy, to me, is almost third, and I mean that deeply. That’s the policies almost everyone agrees on. The primaries pick the most extreme candidates because of how our system works, but they won’t win in general elections.”