Alyssa Farah Griffin pretends to beat Chris Christie on “The View”

Alyssa Farah Griffin – face cream innovator and fashion influencer who once wore a shirt wrong – has added boxing champion to her growing list of professional achievements at The view‘s Hot Topics table.

In a lighter moment in the at times heated debate over voting in the upcoming presidential election, Griffin pretended to punch interview guest Chris Christie on Friday’s show after Christie referred to fickle Republican Nikki Haley as a friend of the co-host.

“It’s different people for different things,” Christie said after panelist Joy Behar questioned Republican priorities. “But over Alyssa’s friend Nikki Haley, we argued…” the former New Jersey governor said at the table, prompting Griffin – who had previously expressed her support for Haley when she ran against Donald Trump in the primaries – to extend her right arm and pretend to slap him for the joke.

“I knew I was being played,” Griffin said, laughing. “I told you! I told you!” added co-host Sunny Hostin.

Christie went on to reveal that Griffin once “guaranteed him that Nikki Haley would never endorse Donald Trump” before Haley endorsed Trump on stage at the Republican National Convention earlier this week – because, as Christie recalled Griffin saying, Haley was “a person of principle.” Griffin responded, “Let me believe in something!”

The conversation shifted, with Christie accusing Haley of being “united by her own tortured ambition” in every political race.

“She took the stage on Tuesday night for one reason only: She wants to run for president again in 2028 and believes that her performance on stage will help her do that,” he said. “But I want to point out one thing: After this performance, she has less of a chance in 2028 than she did in 2024.”

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Griffin finally conceded, telling Christie, “I admit the governor was right on that point. You were.”

Weekly entertainment has reached out to representatives for Haley for comment.

Earlier this week, The view insulted Haley’s In her speech to the RNC, she contrasted her enthusiastic support for Trump by playing a montage of her previous comments about the Republican presidential candidate, calling him “unstable and crazy,” “toxic,” “unfit” for office, among other things, and noting that “there is no way the American people are going to vote for a convicted criminal in the election.”

Although Griffin initially supported Haley during the election campaign, the former White House communications staffer under Trump eventually changed her mind and criticized Haley during the rest of the election campaign.

The view airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/PT on ABC.