MSNBC and CNN anchors held back tears and questioned the state of America as they recounted a stunning victory for former President Donald Trump in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
CNN political commentator Van Jones appeared to be on the verge of tears as it became increasingly apparent that former President Donald Trump would handily beat Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election.
Jones, a former Obama administration official and Democratic Party activist, gave a somber assessment of the election late Tuesday night, saying he “woke up this morning with a dream” only to “go to bed with a nightmare “.
“I’m thinking about the people who are not part of anybody’s elite who are hurting tonight,” Jones told CNN co-panelists on Tuesday, as vote counts in key battleground states showed Trump well-positioned to capture a second term. at the White House.
Meanwhile, MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki, who served as White House press secretary during the Biden administration until 2022, predicted that the Democratic party would begin to question its decision to remove President Joe Biden from the race.
“It’s going to start,” Psaki said on NBC News late Tuesday night, before the network had predicted a winner. “She ran a campaign for 107 days. This is not something we have seen in history. And there will be a lot of questions about exactly that, the timing and the impact of that.”
By Wednesday morning, the Associated Press, the New York Times and major news networks, including NBC and CNN, had called the election for Trump.
MSNBC panelists reflected on Trump’s overwhelming dominance among swing states, as well as an outpouring of Republican votes that gave Republicans control of the Senate.
“We had talked about a red wave two years ago that never materialized,” “Morning Joe” anchor Joe Scarborough said Wednesday. “I have to say, this is the biggest red wave I’ve seen since Ronald Reagan won 49 states in 1984. It seems every Republican across the country has improved.”
“Morning Joe” panelist Claire McCaskill, the former United States senator from Missouri, acknowledged the “red tide” and questioned the Democratic party’s understanding of the country.
“I think we have to admit that Donald Trump knows our country better than we do,” she said. “I think he realized that anger and, frankly, fear was much more powerful than appealing to people’s best angels. That anger and fear was going to work in this election.”
As of around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, the Associated Press reported that Trump had won key battleground states and had clinched victory by 277 electoral votes.
CNN’s Jones said black women, in particular, “who know little to talk about” and are “having their economic dreams crushed” are “trading in a lot of hope for a lot of hurt” because “they hoped that . . . . one of them could be seen as worthy”.
Trump has vowed to crack down on illegal immigration during his term in office. Jones said the “undocumented” have reason to be “terrified tonight.”
MSNBC panelists react to an increasingly conservative country.
“America, first of all, is much further to the right than at any time in our lifetimes, even going back to the Reagan years,” Scarborough said.
The “Morning Joe” host said Republicans will likely dominate all branches of government for the next several years.
“The scale and scale of this victory is sweeping,” Scarborough said Wednesday. “This is a democratic party that just got wiped out this morning.”
McCaskill claimed that Trump had won the presidency by playing on voters’ fears.
“Whether you’re afraid of immigrants or you’re afraid of people who are trans, he understood that. And I think we all thought that everyone’s better angels would prevail,” she said. “Apparently, the better angels went on vacation when Donald Trump came down the escalator. And they haven’t come back. “
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