Can you feel it crawling on you? The co-hosts of View analyzed the results of the 2022 midterm elections on Wednesday morning (9 November) with a little help from Taylor Swift Midnights.
“Now the votes are still being counted in many of yesterday’s midterm elections, but it looks like that ‘red tsunami’ hasn’t quite materialized,” Whoopi Goldberg said, referring to the expected sweep of the polls. elections by the GOP to introduce Hot Topics. segment.
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While Ron DeSantis tipped Florida red with his victory as governor, other congressional races have seen Democrats like John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Maggie Hassan defeat far-right candidates backed by the former president. Donald Trump, and the show’s resident Republican co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin couldn’t. I can’t help but reference a fan-favorite track from Swift’s latest chart-topping album.
“Look, I’m a Republican. I wanted good Republicans to win and I wanted bad Republicans to lose,” the conservative freshman voice said at the table before joking, “I’m not losing sleep that Dr. Oz lost his race last night. !
“It’s actually the best I’ve felt about the country,” she continued, “because it was so much more, [as] Taylor Swift would call it a “Lavender Haze”. It was not a red wave.
While Tay Most likely didn’t have the electoral map in mind when she wrote “Lavender Haze” with the help of Jack Antonoff and Zoe Kravitz, the Midnights The opener debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 behind chart-topping single “Anti-Hero” the same week the superstar set a new record as the first artist to top the entire chart. 10 of the Hot 100 in Billboard the story. (This week, on the chart dated Nov. 12, the track remains in the top 10, falling 2-6.)
look View the co-hosts dissect the “Lavender Haze” from the 2022 midterms below.
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