“The View” co-host Joy Behar criticized Democrats’ lack of effective messaging to voters Wednesday as midterm election results continued to emerge.
The current House results show that Republicans hold 198 seats and Democrats have 174, with Republicans heavily favored to take control of the chamber. Key Senate races in Arizona, Nevada and Georgia have yet to be called, with Georgia likely headed into a runoff.
“I feel good about it. I mean, I feel cautiously optimistic because I think we did very nicely considering the predictions from the red wave, the red haze, the red tsunami,” Behar said. “But I think that the Democrats should learn from this because with the heinous condition of the Republican Party at the moment, we should’ve had a blue tsunami. And I think it’s the messenger. There is no good messenger going on the Democrat side.” (RELATED: ‘The View’ Co-Hosts Blame ‘DINOs’ In Congress For Roe V. Wade Overturn)
“Remember when James Carville saying, ‘It’s the economy, stupid’?” she continued. “Well, you need somebody like that. It’s the democracy, stupid! It’s abortion rights, stupid! It’s voting rights, stupid! And sell it! Go out there and sell it!”
Joy cautions Democrats that because of “the heinous condition of the Republican Party” it “should have had a blue tsunami.”She says it’s just a messaging problem.
“It’s democracy, stupid! It’s abortion rights, stupid! It’s voting rights, stupid! And sell it!” pic.twitter.com/Xftwrp7XER— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 9, 2022
Republicans did not receive the widespread victories that polls had predicted in the months leading up the elections. In June, CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten predicted that Republicans are in the “best position” to win seats in over 80 years.
Republicans are expected to take back the House with a slim majority, but the Senate remains a tossup.
The issue of abortion was a bigger contributor to Democratic turnout that most forecasters expected. An exit poll from Edison Research found that about six of ten voters said they were “dissatisfied or angry” about the June 24 Supreme Court ruling, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which returned the issue of abortion to the states, Reuters reported.