“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin claimed Thursday that President Joe Biden should not address “crime, inflation and immigration” because they are “Republican talking points.”
Hostin celebrated the large turnout of young voters aged 18-29 at the ballot box Tuesday, 63% of whom voted for Democrats. She said, despite polls saying otherwise, that the main issues for voters were “democracy” and abortion.
“Biden was criticized for not talking about crime, inflation and immigration. Those are Republican talking points,” Hostin said. “He had his finger on the pulse of what the everyday American needed and he explained that our democracy was at stake and if you look at the exit polls, the two biggest issues were number one, saving our democracy and number two, women’s health care rights.”
Sunny commends Biden for not talking about “crime, inflation, and immigration” because those are “Republican talking points.”
And she spews BIG LIES about the exit polls. She falsely claims the top 2 issues were “democracy” and “women’s health care rights.” pic.twitter.com/Iiea1XnITu— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 10, 2022
Exit polls have found that Democrats identified abortion, healthcare and climate change as the top issues facing the U.S., while Republicans found crime, economy and immigration to be the most important. A Washington Post exit poll found that a plurality of voters, 47%, believed the “economy and jobs” were the most important issues. (RELATED: ‘It Should Have Been A Blue Tsunami’: Joy Behar Blasts Democrats’ Messaging In The Midterms)
Nearly one-third, 32%, of Democrats found the “economy and inflation” to be the most important issue and 38% prioritized crime, according to the WaPo exit poll. An NBC News exit poll found that 41% of Democrats said crime “mattered most” to them in the elections, and 28% prioritized inflation and 25% said immigration.
The NBC poll also found that Democrats and Republicans were nearly split on whether they believed democracy to be secure. Fifty percent of Republicans found democracy to be “very threatened,” and another 50% found it to be “very secure.” Among Democrats, 45% found democracy to be “very secure” and 48% said it is “very threatened.”
The majority of surveys prior to the elections found that voters prioritized inflation and entrusted Republicans to tackle the issues. A Morning Consult/Politico poll released in October found that 93% of voters were concerned with inflation and 46% trusted Republicans to fix it while 37% trusted Democrats.
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 abortion legalization back to the state level, Reuters reported.