**Nov. 5, 2025, Published 4:25 p.m. ET**
As the hard-left panelists on *The View* celebrated Democrat victories across the nation the night prior, the only Republican voice was noticeably absent, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
Alyssa Farah Griffin did not appear on the Wednesday, November 5 episode, where she would have been the sole counterpoint to the rest of the panel cheering Democrat wins while criticizing President Donald Trump.
Moderator Whoopi Goldberg appeared to acknowledge Griffin’s absence with a hint of shade following the Republican Party’s significant losses.
The women entered to a wildly cheering audience, expressing their upbeat mood after left-wing candidates secured major wins in the New York City mayoral race, as well as gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia. California also passed a Democrat-backed proposition that redrew the state’s congressional district lines, eliminating five longtime Republican seats.
“Alyssa’s not here today,” Goldberg told viewers, noting she would likely return the following day after missing the post-election debrief episode. “Honey, feel better soon,” added the *Sister Act* star.
### Baby on Board
While Goldberg did not specify the reason for Griffin’s absence, the former Trump White House employee, 36, is pregnant with her first child and may have been feeling under the weather rather than mourning her party’s losses.
Alyssa married husband Justin Griffin in November 2021. The couple had been trying to conceive for several years after their wedding, but Alyssa struggled with undiagnosed endometriosis, which made pregnancy more difficult. Following five rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF), the couple is expecting their first child, a baby boy, in February 2026. Alyssa made the big announcement on the October 8 episode of *The View*.
### ‘A Radical Progressive Insane Asylum’
Alyssa joined the show as the lone Republican voice after panelist Meghan McCain quit in 2021. McCain complained about the hostility she faced from her very liberal coworkers. However, unlike McCain, Alyssa gets along well with her left-leaning fellow panelists and rarely engages in heated exchanges.
McCain, a hard-right former host, described *The View*’s workplace as “toxic” in her 2022 memoir *Bad Republican* and cited an on-air comment made by progressive Joy Behar as the breaking point that led to her departure.
After returning from maternity leave, McCain joked on air to Behar about how much they must have missed her differing opinions. Behar fired back with, “I did not — did not miss you. Zero,” which left McCain “sobbing” and feeling unsafe working in the hostile environment.
In 2024, the late Senator John McCain’s daughter blasted *The View*’s hard-left stance in a post on X (formerly Twitter), calling it “a radical progressive insane asylum, and that is why I left years ago.” Meghan has since criticized her Republican replacement, writing in a March post on X, “How anyone thinks you represent any Republican woman in America is beyond me,” referring to Alyssa.
### ‘On Loan’ to Democrats
Alyssa has taken a much softer and more moderate approach than her Republican predecessors, McCain and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
Before joining *The View*, the Los Angeles native worked in the office of Trump’s first Vice President, Mike Pence, as his press secretary for two years, eventually serving as President Trump’s White House Director of Strategic Communications in 2020.
However, in 2024, Alyssa revealed that, for the first time in her life, she voted for a Democrat—casting her presidential ballot for Kamala Harris over her former boss.
“Four years ago today, I was in the White House with Donald Trump on election night,” she announced. “I believed he deserved to lose that night, at that point. I thought he hadn’t fought to win the election, but I thought the next four years would be the Republican Party rebuilding and becoming something I could believe in and turning the page on Donald Trump, and it didn’t do that. So, this weekend, on Saturday, for the first time in my life, I voted for a Democrat,” she told *The View*’s audience to a roar of applause.
At the time, Alyssa noted that she still felt allegiance to Republicans and described her vote as “a loan” to Harris.
https://radaronline.com/p/the-view-whoopi-goldberg-shades-absent-alyssa-farah-griffin-gop-losses/
