‘The View’ Hosts Blast Trump In Evaluation of Harris’ Closing Speech

The hosts of The View analyzed Vice President Kamala Harris’ speech at the Ellipse on Tuesday, criticizing former President Donald Trump for his last appearance there on January 6.

Spectators gathered in Washington, D.C., to hear Harris‘ closing argument speech at the same site of Trump’s infamous “Save America.”

“Seventy-five thousand people were supporting her, and it looked like the United States of America that I know–black, white, Latino, LGBTQ, old, young, everyone was there,” co-host Sunny Hostin said during Wednesday’s episode. “It looked like the country that I know. It didn’t look like a white nationalist rally.”

Harris’ event at the Ellipse arrived one week before Election Day and followed Trump’s closing arguments at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

Harris said during her Ellipse speech Trump “has spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid of each other.”

The vice president also criticized Trump’s comments about going after the “enemy from within” if elected to the White House. Despite receiving immense pushback for the comments in recent weeks, Trump repeated the phrase during his Madison Square Garden speech, telling supporters, “We’re running against a massive, crooked, malicious leftist machine that’s running the Democrat Party. They are smart and vicious, they are the enemy within, we must defeat them.”

Co-host Joy Behar said Trump frequently refers to “the enemy within,” drawing a connection to the Kent State murders.

“The National Guard was brought out by Richard Nixon to kill kids from Kent State University because they were protesting. They shot our children,” Behar said. “The National Guard shot American children. When he says the enemy from within, that is what it evokes in my mind, that they will be shooting kids who are protesting on campuses.”

Trump held his January 6, 2021, rally at the Ellipse on the same day a mob of his supporters rioted at the U.S. Capitol while Congress was certifying the 2020 election in which Trump lost to President Joe Biden.

“This imagery of standing and reclaiming that space, also showing a woman in front of the White House looking presidential, I think, was incredibly powerful,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said.

Farah Griffin said she remembers January 6 vividly, despite it occurring after her resignation as a political commentator and former White House director of strategic communications.

She recalls Trump stating, “If Mike Pence has the courage to do this,” and added, “I just had this pit in my stomach, thinking, you just put him in so much danger. There is a mob. There are people who are ready to go march up because he told them to.”

Farah Griffin said Trump is already attempting to undermine the election.

“If he’s saying there’s fraud in Pennsylvania, he’s just spewing lies,” Farah Griffin said. “He is teeing up another January 6, we could be just months away from saying something like that unfold again, because this man isn’t capable of losing and doing the right thing for the country.”

Whoopi Goldberg emphasized the importance of participation, stating everyone needs to come out and vote, as every vote matters.

“Everybody has to come out—all the LGBTQ folks, all the Black folks, the white folks, the white women, the Black women, the Asian folks, the Puerto Rican people. This is on us if we want a country where we are all still welcome. We don’t have to say to our kids, ‘Hey, there’s a possibility, if this man gets in, we’re all going to have to leave.'”

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