After years of speaking out against her former boss, both inside and outside her position at The view – but never officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race – ex-White House staffer and former Donald Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin revealed on Election Day that she was running for office “for the first time” in her life Democratic candidate had voted.

The 35-year-old revealed she felt “anxious” yet “hopeful” as a majority of Americans went to the polls on Tuesday morning, after she and her colleagues Display cohosts raised the alarm at the Hot Topics table for months about a possible second-term Trump presidency.

“Four years ago today, on election night, I was at the White House with Donald Trump,” Griffin said at the top of the live show, referencing her past as a member of Trump’s White House communications team before resigning in 2020. , and then spoke out against him through her public platform. “I believed he deserved to lose that night. I didn’t think he fought to win the election, but I thought over the next four years the Republican party would rebuild and become something I could believe in and turn the page. about Donald Trump, and that didn’t happen. So this weekend, on Saturday, I voted for a Democrat for the first time in my life.”

The audience (and Griffin’s cohosts) cheered the move, as she confirmed, “I voted for Kamala Harris” and “then voted Republicans.”

However, Griffin added, “I consider my vote to be on loan to her,” and elaborated on her reasoning for donating the vote to Harris and the politician’s vice president, Tim Walz.

“I worry about the direction Donald Trump will take this country, and I take my own warning seriously. What I saw is very real. I’m a Christian, I’m an American and I’m a Republican, in I need someone who shares my values. I need someone who is a kind and decent person who will bring this country together,” Griffin 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.”

Joy Behar, 82, who regularly criticized Griffin’s past relationships The viewcalled Griffin a “good girl” for making the choice, after Griffin previously expressed support for Republican candidate Nikki Haley during the primaries.

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Later, cohost Sara Haines also praised her fellow panelist’s decision.

“I think this is a big step for you, as someone who has been a Republican all your life and comes from a Republican family,” Haines, 47, told her colleague. ‘I think of it less as if you vote for a Democrat, and more as if you vote for a democracy, for (the) Constitution. So I commend you for that. But I also know that standing up for something has a price. am torn, but you did the right thing, and I commend you for it.

Earlier this week, Griffin issued a final warning The view public about Trump’s possible revival.

“I speak as a former senior aide to Donald Trump, who knows him very well,” she said on Monday’s episode. “This is the most important election of our lifetimes because he is the most dangerous man to ever run for office in America. presidency. He can’t go back.”

Harris joined in October The view to answer questions from the cohosts, following other high-profile political appearances from President Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney.

The view airs weekdays at 11am ET/10am PT on ABC.