ABC’s far-left daytime circus The View just did what Disney lawyers keep pretending the show never does: it used the public airwaves to pick a House race, name the Democrat, and tell people in a specific Florida district to go vote him in.
On Monday’s broadcast, co-host Ana Navarro, the network’s “Republican,” walked viewers through Florida’s 27th Congressional District, the South Florida seat she said she lives in, and then dropped the mask.
“So, anybody who lives in Coral Gables, in Miami, in Key Biscayne, in downtown Miami, pay attention to that race and go vote because it’s going to matter,” Navarro said. “And we can actually knock this woman out. There’s a great guy running, his name is Elliot Rodriguez. Give him a look.”
The “woman” is Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar. The “great guy” is Democrat Eliott Rodriguez, the former CBS Miami anchor now running to flip FL-27.
Navarro also noted that Salazar won her last election comfortably but said the race has suddenly become much more competitive.
That assessment is based in part on Democratic-sponsored polling. A September survey conducted by Tulchin Research for the Democratic House Majority PAC showed Salazar at 47% and Rodriguez at 46%, while an August Bendixen & Amandi poll showed the two candidates tied at 45%. Those results should be viewed with their sponsorship in mind.
Salazar won reelection in 2024 with 199,159 votes, or 60.38%, compared with Democrat Lucia Báez-Geller’s 130,708 votes, or 39.62%, a margin of more than 20 percentage points, according to official Miami-Dade County results.
According to NewsBusters, the clip is one of the most overt examples yet of ABC News using a licensed broadcast program to electioneer. MRC associate editor Nicholas Fondacaro posted the excerpt and put it plainly: electioneering is a violation of ABC’s broadcast license.
The FEC defines electioneering as a broadcast, cable, or satellite communication that identifies a federal candidate, is distributed to the relevant electorate, and airs within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election. For the November 3, 2026 general election, that federal electioneering-communication period began on September 4, 2026.
There is also “express advocacy,” which is even more direct: language unmistakably urging the election or defeat of a particular candidate. The FEC distinguishes that concept from the technical category of an “electioneering communication.”
WATCH:
Electioneering is a violation of ABC’s broadcast license.
ABC News program The View tells viewers in FL-27 to “go vote” for Democrat Eliott Rodriguez over Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar:“So, anybody who lives in Coral Gables, in Miami, in Key Biscayne, in… pic.twitter.com/n9s08yGCAD
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 28, 2026
Disney still wants you to believe this is “bona fide news.”
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr opened a public proceeding this year after Disney petitioned the Commission to declare The View a bona fide news interview program exempt from equal-opportunity rules. Carr’s point was simple: a show does not get the news exemption if its booking and commentary are “based on partisan purposes, such as an intention to advance or harm an individual’s candidacy.”
The Media Research Center has already dumped thousands of exhibits into that file. According to Fox News, MRC President David Bozell told Fox News Digital that broadcast licenses are a privilege, not an entitlement, and that ABC is operating like a partisan cable network on the public airwaves. Bozell’s letter to the FCC argued The View is not news. It is a Democratic operation.
The Gateway Pundit reported in June that MRC submitted 2,473 separate pieces of evidence documenting The View’s “pervasive bias” and, at times, “willful electioneering.” Monday’s segment belongs in that pile.
This is not the first time Navarro has used the show as a get-out-the-vote shop. In May she told viewers that if they wanted “abuses of power checked,” they had to “vote Democrats in in November, period.”
Whoopi Goldberg has run the same play, warning the audience that “our lives literally depend” on turnout. Disney still files papers in Washington calling this Meet the Press.
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