The View host Joy Behar advised voters to worry about the state of democracy—not inflation—in the midterm elections.
According to Behar, who recently turned 80, “People are worried about inflation in this country.”
“A lot of people don’t realize inflation comes and goes,” she explained during Friday’s episode of The View. “I have been here a long time. We saw that this week with my birthday. Hello. I’ve seen inflation up and I’ve seen the stock market go up even though inflation is up.”
“It fluctuates,” she said. “Democracy does not fluctuate. You can lose it like that,” Behar further warned.
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The host’s message came as the ladies discussed Thursday’s Jan. 6 Committee public hearing. Ana Navarro expressed that she was glad the most recent hearing occurred just a few weeks before the midterm elections so that it would be fresh in voters’ minds. She further told voters to “channel that anger” with their ballots.
The hearing featured snippets of testimony from fellow host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who was the White House director of strategic communications under former President Donald Trump.
Griffin told her co-hosts that she received “death threats” and “harassment” for her role in the investigation. “I’ve been called a w****, and a h**. All the other women who did were subjected to sexual harassment, violent threats.”
According to her, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide and assistant to former chief of staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration, had to leave her home for months and relocate as a result of her involvement with the committee.
“Trump is a clear and present danger to American democracy,” Griffin concluded from the new hearing.
However, she added that “I’m still skeptical that DOJ is going to indict him.”
“I think they have the case. I think he deserves to be in a jumpsuit, but if that doesn’t happen, then the next way we protect our democracy is making sure he’s not president again,” she said.
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“You know, we’re powerless really. What really can we do?” Behar asked. “What’s going on in the country right now is so infuriating. Every right that we took for granted could be gone in a snap, and the only thing, and I don’t want to lecture people, but the only thing we have is the vote. That’s it,” she continued in a final plea to voters.
