'The View' Co-Hosts React To Trump's 2024 Presidential Win | The View

um so what happened last night anybody doing anything interesting okay the 2024 presidential race ended yesterday and this is what the country and the world woke up to this morning take a look this was a movement like nobody's ever seen before and frankly this was I believe the greatest political movement of all time and now it's going to reach a new level of importance because we're going to help our country heal we have a country that needs help and it needs help very badly we're going to fix our borders we're going to fix everything about

our country America's future will be bigger better Bolder richer safer and stronger than it has ever been before God bless you and God bless America thank you very much so how you feel I'll start go ahead my takeaway is that the system works we live in a democracy people spoke this is what people wanted I vehemently disagree with the decision that Americans made but I feel very very hopeful that we have a democratic system in this country we should value it we should love it we should protest if we if the situation arises that that

we need to protest which I'm sure it will and I've been through this before with Nixon it's been very difficult but boy oh boy do we have a country if we can keep it yeah yeah well um echoing the cents Joy one of the first thing I wanted to say for anyone that needs an example of when the person you voted for does not win you do not say the system must be broken or that it was rigged you say it is what it is and you show up anyway and I want to commend all

those people that voted cuz you sometimes hear people say well it didn't matter no it did matter that was still your currency that was still your power and people turned out now if you didn't vote you really don't have a say in the conversation so you can go ahead and sit down but for the rest of you and then a lot of what um I think about is what I always tell my kids when things go on you feel what you feel everyone has different emotions some people got what they wanted a lot of people

didn't and you feel anything that comes up and then you turn around and you say let's look at the tapes let's see what we did let's see how we continue to fight for the people that we care about and you take one step in front of the other and so here we are today and I still feel that optimistic because I feel arm in-arm with so many people who agree with me and I'm not going to stop marching so I like this pep talk coach chain listen is it the outcome I wanted no but we

live in a democracy I have my vote millions of people cast their votes did um and and what's important to me is this tens of millions of Americans our friends our neighbors our family members voted for Donald Trump we disagree with him I know we all do at this table but they are good decent people who are Patriots and love this country and I can't speak to what drove them to the conclusion of being with him but I think it is a moment for us to listen to each other to hear each other Express what

our concerns are I've spent the last four years doing that and also listen to people who are with him because this is a country that there is truly more that unites us than divides us I know it doesn't feel like that for many people in this moment but we need to bring down the temperature the name calling the demonizing let the other side let let you know if they want to do that they can do it but I think it is a moment to listen to the voters and this I have to say I've always

thought he could win I thought in the final stretch she might eek it out I didn't expect it to be this resounding and I think there are some lessons from it I think we forget about Rural America I think the working class feels Left Behind they feel like the powerful the elite only care about them and their and he spoke to them we may not have liked his words but they turned out for him I mean the map was it it was beyond Reagan what we saw last night and I think we need to start

listening more about the concerns of everyday Americans who feel like this system is failing when r on I remember the whole map was red yeah it was pretty red last night I I don't know I'm profoundly Disturbed um I think if you look at the New York Times this morning uh the headline was America makes a a perilous choice I think that in 2016 16 we didn't know what we would get from um a trump Administration but we know now and um we know now that he will have almost unfettered power and so I worry

not about myself actually I don't worry about my station in life I worry about the working class I worry about my mother a retired teacher I worry about our elderly and their social security and their Medicare I worry about my children's future especially my daughter who now has less rights than I have and I remember my father telling me many many years ago that I was the first person in in his family to enjoy full civil rights and now I have less civil rights than I had when he told me that so again I'm profoundly

Disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an Insurrection from becoming president of the United States I think that going forward the convicted Fel in box unemployment applications better be taken off because if you can be the president of the United States then you should then you should not be prevented from employment in this country because I remember applying for my jobs in as a federal prosecutor and there was a box for convicted felons well and so that box better better be taken off and I I think our

Health Care system is now at risk I think um no floride for anyone yeah economists have made clear that um he's going to increase the debt by 7.75 trillion dollar I'm worried about Mass deportation and internment camps and I'm also worried about Elon Musk warning Americans to prepare for temporary hardship um I'm surprised at the results but I'm not surprised as a woman of color I was so hopeful that a mixed race Woman married to a Jewish guy could be elected president of this country and um I think that it had nothing to do with

policy I think this was a referendum of um cultural resentment in this country well I think it um you know I'm I'm I think it has to do with a lot of things that being one of them I'm uh I'm obviously very disappointed uh I'm I'm very sad I was at the Kamala Harris uh headquarters yesterday in Washington um and it was it was a very sad scene the mood turned immediately and um I I tell you there's uh there's a quote I get a lot of inspiration from and it's a quote that I read

when I was reading about John F Kennedy and it says whether I am on the winning or the losing side is not the point with me it is being on the side where my sympathies lie that matters and that to me brought me consolation and inspiration this morning because I have no regrets y I worked hard as hell to elect the first black Asian woman president history slipped through our fingers again I worked hard as hell for Donald Trump not to be president but today unlike Donald Trump and his followers I acknowledge that he won

I hope for the best for our country and I make a commitment to our lgbtq to our immigrants to our elderly to our young girls to the women that we will not stop fighting we can be sad today today we can be sad tomorrow we stand up and we continue we have every right as Americans because we love this country because this is the most exceptional country in the world we have the right and the duty to speak up and denounce abuses of power to be vigilant and so I invite all Americans to do it

but we are doing what they didn't do we are recognizing they won now let's see what happens when he is governing so well I you look we said to people vote we didn't tell people who to vote for right we just said go out well yes but I did not yeah I did because I wanted to make sure people exercise that right too many people that I know died trying to vote yeah okay so we start with that and think about this she did this in two months she did this in two months she left

it all on the you know look she she you know everybody can can always say oh she should have done this she should have done this she should she did what she did she was everywhere she talked to everybody and people didn't come out I don't know why and it doesn't even matter he's now the president I'm still not gonna say his name that's not going to change can one last thing I have faith that some good decent people are going to work for him I've heard from some folks today I think there's some reasons

to be hopeful that people who believe in public service in the country are going to go in the thing I the thing that I I wanted to finish up with is it's hard for some of us to hear that rhetoric yeah yeah after 50 years you know after 70 years to hear that rhetoric coming back to hear things that came out of people's mouths that we all decided as a public group we weren't going to talk to each other that way yeah so for me when I hear that I I can I feel okay when

I'm pissed at somebody who's talking down to somebody else I'm all right with that what I'm not all right with is trying to further wreck the country so that's why everything that everyone is saying at the table really comes down to listen we're still here people I I when I got out of the car today CU nobody will let me drive I saw male men people with their kids I saw people walking around looking you know drinking the what is the the the coffee stuff from Starbucks Starbucks yeah I don't drink coffee so I never

remember but I saw people living their lives and that's what we have to do and when things get to be so bright that we see them we got to call them out yes you have to call them out no one's going to be storming the capital you know what you know what gets me the exit polls showed according to our research Department here at ABC News the state of democracy was the top issue to voters overall so that says that they voted for a guy who wanted to overthrow the election who also said he would

be a dictator on day one and they they also said that democracy was number one so I'm concluding that maybe they don't believe him but I think that means I think it means different things I think democracy means different different people well when we trying to overthrow a legitimate election and you say you're going to be a dictator I don't know how you can that any other way frankly so I can only conclude that they don't believe he's going to do that and I I hope they're right I hope that they are right