ABC News executives are reportedly actively seeking a conservative, pro-Trump voice to join The View panel after all of its woke stars endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
The talk show, co-hosted by liberals Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines, as well as Republican Trump critics Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin, featured the vice president in an episode just a month before the presidential election. .
Then, just a day after Trump’s victory, the panelists dressed in all black as if they were attending a funeral.
But now ABC News Group president Debra O’Connell and ABC News chief Almin Karamehmedovic are holding meetings with executive producers and other senior editorial leaders to address their coverage. reports the New York Post.
It focuses primarily on The View, unnamed sources said.
ABC News executives are actively seeking a conservative, pro-Trump voice to join The View panel, the New York Post reports.
All six panelists endorsed Harris in the presidential election, with some attacking the president-elect.
“The View is facing pressure from higher-ups,” the source said. “Viewers can expect some big changes, including the addition of new panelists who can bring a pro-Trump perspective.”
The source went on to note that all six current panelists endorsed Harris in the presidential election.
‘They lost. They’re out of touch with America,” the source said, noting: “For a show about different perspectives, The View doesn’t seem to have any when it comes to Trump” and ABC News executives “don’t want to alienate the pro demographic.” -Trump’ while trying to maintain the show’s ratings and advertising revenue.
‘At the end of the day, these changes have nothing to do with politics. “It’s about economics,” the source explained. ‘Trump got more than half the vote.
“TV networks need to find pro-Trump voices and diversify points of view to reflect the diverse perspectives of Americans.”
Another unnamed source also noted that the change comes after ABC News executives were caught off guard by Trump’s victory.
“We’re trying to decide how we’ll cover the next four years, when everyone inside ABC News is on one side,” the source said.
ABC News Group President Debra O’Connell and ABC News chief Almin Karamehmedovic are holding meetings with executive producers and other senior editorial leaders to address their coverage following Trump’s victory.
It’s still unclear whether the show would start one of its woke panelists or simply add a seventh.
But including a notoriously woke conservative on the show may cause some problems with its top talent, the first source said.
“The question is what will happen to the Whoopis and the Joys if they bring in a Trumpster,” the source said.
Many of the panelists have already spoken out against the president-elect since his victory, and Goldberg, the show’s longest-serving co-host, announced that she will continue to refuse to use Trump’s name.
‘He is not the president. I’m still not going to say his name,” the woke co-host said. “That’s not going to change.”
Goldberg has refused to use Trump’s name since he first took office in 2016, saying he “can’t” put the word “president” before his name.
Sunny Hostin also said she was “deeply disturbed” by the outcome of the election, as she blamed “uneducated white women” and “Latino men” for Trump’s victory, claiming they voted for policies that will negatively impact them.
“I think (Trump’s victory) had nothing to do with politics, I think it was a referendum on cultural resentment in this country,” he told the program.
‘Black women tried to save this country again, last night…what we don’t have are white women, who voted about 52 percent for Donald Trump; as I understand it, uneducated white women. In fact, there are Latin men who vote more for him.”
Amid the attacks on Trump, former panelist Meghan McCain took to X to lash out at her former co-stars.
He also criticized the network for not having a “single conservative woman” on the panel during the election season.
Amid the attacks on Trump, former panelist Meghan McCain took to X to lash out at her former co-stars.
“Respectfully, please stop sending me clips from The View,” he wrote, describing the show as a “radical progressive madhouse and that’s why I left it years ago.”
McCain also criticized McCain on the show for not having “a single conservative woman” on the panel during the election season.
“It is truly misconduct on the part of ABC News that there is not a single conservative woman on The View this morning who voted for Trump or who simply isn’t repulsed by his followers to explain to America why he is so popular,” he said. . he said after Trump’s victory.
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