'The View' hosts shut down claim that 'red wave is coming': 'You don't know that'

"The View" hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin shut down guest host Alyssa Farah's claim that a "red wave is coming" in November amid high gas prices and skyrocketing inflation.

"Here's what I would warn, the red wave is coming. Republicans are going to win the midterms short of something unforeseen that I cannot predict now," Farah said.

Behar said, "you don't know that." Farah pointed to polling, high gas prices and inflation.

A poll released in early June found that Americans rank inflation as the "most urgent issue" facing our country.

"Lets wait and see what the people voted. I understand what you're saying," Goldberg said. "Lets remind people it's up to them to make this decision."

The hosts discussed former President Donald Trump's influence over the Republican Party as Tuesday's primary elections saw one Trump-endorsed candidate win and another lose.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S. C, was victorious over Trump-backed candidate, Kate Arrington. However, Rep. Tom Rice, R-S.C., lost to Russel Fry, who was endorsed by the former president, in South Carolina's 7th district Republican primary.

Hostin said that she believed people were paying attention to the Jan. 6 hearings and that she agreed with Behar.

"We don't know that red-wave is coming because that red-wave is based on a big lie," Hostin continued.

She praised President Biden for his "solutions" to the baby formula shortage crisis, inflation and gas prices, and said that Republicans "at every single turn" have been voting against the solutions.

The national average for the price of gas hit $5.014 on Wednesday. The average hit $5 per gallon on Saturday.

"They've been voting against it so that we can't solve those problems, and I think that's disgusti... (Read more)

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