After several months of not saying who she would vote for in the presidential election, The view co-host and former Donald Trump aide Alyssa Farah-Griffin revealed Tuesday that she voted for Kamala Harris.

“This weekend, on Saturday, I voted for a Democrat for the first time in my life,” the ex-White House communications adviser said on the show, adding that it was because she just “wants a kind and decent person who will do that.” bring this country together” and “I worry about the direction Donald Trump will take this country.”

Farah-Grififn has been outspokenly critical of Trump since she joined her party in protest against his takeover. She often points to her time with Trump in the White House as an example of why he is “unfit” and “dangerous” for the country. “I take my own warnings seriously. What I saw is very real,” she said on Tuesday.

“Four years ago today, on election night, I was at the White House with Donald Trump,” she said. “I believed he deserved to lose at that moment. I believed he didn’t fight to win the election, but I believed that over the next four years the Republican Party would rebuild and become something I could believe in, and the page would be turned on Donald Trump, and it did not.”

That said, before Harris entered the race, Farah-Griffin said on the show that she “wanted”sign someone up‘ on her ballot instead of voting for Joe Biden or Donald Trump. “I don’t think I should change my Republican values ​​because two parties are putting forward options that I don’t like,” she said last April.

Since Harris entered the race, the host has often praised the vice president’s “flawless” campaign but also remained critical of its policy positions. She didn’t want to vote for Harris, said in September that she “wants to hear more” before deciding whether to vote for the VP, but revealed on Tuesday that she had finally made her choice. “I consider my vote to be loaned to her,” Farah-Griffin said, adding that she still “voted against the Republicans.”

“I’m a Christian, I’m an American and I’m a Republican, in that order. And I need someone who shares my values” in the White House, she said. “I don’t agree with many of her policies, we can criticize that later. But today is about a better future and I think the best thing for the country and the future of the Republican Party is that Donald Trump loses and Kamala Harris is elected,” she concluded.

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