Alyssa has taken a far softer method in her views, that are far more average than these of her Republican predecessors, McCain and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
Earlier than becoming a member of The View, the Los Angeles native labored within the workplace of Trump’s first Vice President, Mike Pence, as his press secretary for two years, finally serving because the president’s White Home Director of Strategic Communications in 2020.
Nevertheless, in 2024, Alyssa revealed that for the primary time in her life, she voted for a Democrat, casting her presidential poll for Kamala Harris over her former boss.
“4 years in the past immediately, I used to be within the White Home with Donald Trump on election night time,” she introduced.
“I believed he deserved to lose that night time, at that time. I believed he hadn’t fought to win the election, however I believed the subsequent 4 years can be the Republican social gathering rebuilding and changing into one thing I may imagine in and turning the web page on Donald Trump, and it didn’t do this. So, this weekend, on Saturday, for the primary time in my life, I voted for a Democrat,” she instructed The View‘s viewers to a roar of applause.
On the time, Alyssa famous that she nonetheless felt an allegiance to Republicans and her vote was “a mortgage” to Harris.