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With the dust still settling from an Election Day that saw record turnout across the country, it’s clear that Republican victories were limited with many Trump-backed candidates failing epically. But the cast of ABC’s The View was as miserable as ever, falsely suggesting there was still “tremendous voter suppression” despite admitting there was “huge turnout” and boasting that voters were swinging in on “helicopters.”
After playing a medley of victory speeches from Democrats and Republicans, co-host Whoopi Goldberg framed it as a good day voters. “This comes down to the people. The people of the United States made their decisions. They decided who they wanted to be in power,” she said.
She then claimed, without evidence, that those people overcame efforts to “repress the vote” and touted how “people came out from under buildings. They came from helicopters. They landed. They decided. They voted in huge amounts.”
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