ABC News reportedly seeks to find more conservative voices to balance 'The View' after the show's entire panel endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris' failed presidential bid He said he was in a “panic state”.
According to officials, new york post The network is scrambling to correct the voter divide on talk shows. An anonymous source said ABC News has been hosting “intense” and “high-level meetings” since last week.
“The current panel clearly resonates with viewers, considering the series just earned its highest-rated episode in over a decade.”
The first task for network executives will reportedly be to find panelists who are supporters of President-elect Donald Trump to join the show. Even the show's current so-called Republican co-hosts, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farrah Griffin, have repeatedly criticized Trump and his policies.
Sources told the Post that the show is “facing pressure from upper management.”
“Viewers can expect some big changes, including the introduction of new panelists who can bring a pro-Trump perspective,” the source continued. “Everyone on 'The View' supported Kamala Harris. They lost. They are distancing themselves from America.”
“There doesn't seem to be anything on 'The View' about Trump, which is a show that features a variety of viewpoints. ABC executives don't want to alienate the pro-Trump demographic,” the source added.
Officials speculated that inviting a pro-Trump host could cause a stir among the other panelists.
“The question is, what happens to Whoopi and Joy if they bring in the Trumpsters?” the source questioned, referring to Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar.
It's unclear whether the network plans to replace the current host or simply add another panelist.
“Everyone at ABC News is on one side and we're looking at how we're going to cover the next four years,” another source told the Post.
An ABC spokesperson denied the sources' claims, saying it was an “opinion-based show featuring a diverse panel of women with different points of view.”
A spokesperson later said that the show had just hit its highest ratings, but seemed unaware of the possible reason behind the surge in viewership. It is likely that many Americans, particularly conservative-minded people who normally avoid the show, flocked to see the far-left panelists' dramatic reactions to President Trump's landslide victory.
An ABC News spokesperson told the Post: “Given that the series just hit its highest ratings in more than a decade and total viewers hit a four-year high, The commission clearly resonates with viewers.”
After Trump's victory, Behar accused his supporters of being racist and misogynistic.
Co-host Sunny Hostin blamed Harris' defeat on “uneducated white women” and “Latino men” and asked what Americans who voted for Harris “wrong”. I wondered if that was the case.
Meghan McCain, a former co-host on “The View,” criticized her former colleague for being out of touch with American voters.
“With all due respect, please stop sending me clips from The View,” she told her followers. ×. “This is a radical, progressive psychiatric hospital, which is why I left several years ago.”
In a previous post, McCain said: I wrote“There's not a single conservative woman on 'The View' this morning who voted for Trump, or who isn't hated by his supporters to explain to America why Trump is still popular. , actual misconduct on the part of ABC News.
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