Alyssa Farah Griffin calls Newsom’s election comments ‘wholly irresponsible’

On Friday’s episode of “The View,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin argued that it was “utterly irresponsible” for California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, to forged doubt on free and honest elections in the USA below President Donald Trump.

“We cannot have a rustic. We cannot have a good and free election if we do not arise,” Newsom advised ABC Information on Thursday, including that Trump needs “Putin elections.”

In response to Newsom’s feedback, Griffin mentioned, “I believe it is utterly irresponsible for the governor of essentially the most populous state, who, by the way in which, oversees elections in his personal state. He oversees the cybersecurity infrastructure. He oversees the Secretary of State. All the way in which all the way down to the ballot watchers and election staff, Gavin Newsom has a variety of energy on this.”

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Alyssa Farah Griffin on “The View” October 13, 2025. (Screenshot/ABC)

“He may no less than say, ‘I can promise you that California may have free and honest elections, and I’ll work with each governor to make sure there are not any efforts to undermine them.’ However that is not what he does,” she added.

Co-host Sunny Hostin disputed Griffin’s argument, asking how Newsom may guarantee voters of election integrity whereas the president plans to ship federal election displays to California.

“As a result of he is the president of the state,” Griffin replied. “Screens, we have to know what which means. I believe it is an alarming sentence.’

Earlier than she may end her level, co-host Pleasure Behar interrupted her and requested, “Would not this sound like election intimidation?”

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California Governor Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump (Getty Photos)

Noting that Newsom has “his personal authorities within the state,” Griffin drew a parallel between his place on election displays and his efforts to redistrict California.

“For him to say this jogs my memory a variety of the gerrymandering debate,” she recalled. “So everybody’s upset when Texas redesigns its congressional plans so as to add extra Republican seats. ‘They’re dishonest. It has been counterfeited.’ So California responds by dishonest and manipulating and including extra Democratic seats.”

The Justice Division introduced final week that it plans to ship federal election displays to California and New Jersey for his or her intently watched elections subsequent month.

California voters may even determine on a poll measure geared toward redrawing the state’s congressional map in favor of Democrats, a transfer geared toward countering Republican Get together-led redistricting in states like Texas.

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Co-host Sara Haines appeared to agree with Griffin’s assertion about Newsom’s feedback, arguing earlier within the present that his claims are prone to discourage voters who already look like dropping religion within the election system.

Sara Haines will co-host The View on the ABC present on October 15, 2025. (ABC/TheView)

“Folks fought arduous for that proper to vote, and already individuals aren’t coming to our polls. We need not plant seeds. You all the time exit. You all the time vote,” Haines mentioned. “Let the remaining be decided because it performs out, as a result of when fraud was alleged final time, not a single choose on this nation noticed any proof of any fraud.

“So by planting these seeds, you are already partaking an viewers that has misplaced religion in all the pieces and saying, ‘Your voice does not matter.’ That’s the quickest technique to affect elections,” she added.

Fox Information Digital has reached out to Newsom’s workplace for remark.

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Fox Information’ Brie Stimson contributed to this report.