CNN contributor Scott Jennings took an opportunity during the network’s coverage of the 2024 election results to explain why it was that former President Donald Trump completely and utterly defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to become our next commander-in-chief, all while they just sat in silence, devastated that their candidate failed in spectacular fashion. Jennings chatted about how the president-elect not only won the proper number of electoral college votes, but also the popular vote, which is a first for a GOP candidate since 2004. That’s a long time, right? Two decades.
“This is a big deal. This isn’t backing into the office,” Jennings said to the CNN panel.
“This is a mandate to do what you said you were going to do. Get the economy working again for regular working-class Americans. Fix immigration. Try to get crime under control. Try to reduce the chaos in the world. This is a mandate from the American people to do that. I think I’m interpreting the results tonight as the revenge of just a regular old working-class American,” he added.
Revenge of the average, everyday working class American. My reaction to Trump’s crushing victory on @cnn pic.twitter.com/JkhixYVGLS
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) November 6, 2024
Jennings then said, “The anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted, condescended to. They’re not garbage; they’re not Nazis. They’re just regular people who get up and go to work every day and are trying to make a better life for their kids.”
He then explained that these individuals feel like the radical left and the Democratic Party have consistently told them to sit down and shut up when they have raised concerns about what’s happening in their lives and how it’s hurting them. He then said the brutal victory of Trump over Harris demonstrates an indictment of the “political information complex” — the mainstream media — by the American people.
via The Daily Wire:
Jennings mentioned the “gimmicks” Democrats used to try to win, including ads about women lying to their husbands, when really voters were concerned with “fundamentals.” “Inflation, people feeling like that they were barely able to tread water at best,” the contributor said. “That was the fundamentals of the election. And so I think that both parties should always look at the results of an election and figure out what went right and what went wrong.”
The political strategist said this should be treated as a lesson by the Democrats. “But I think for all of us who cover elections and talk about elections and do this on a day-to-day basis, we have to figure out how to understand, talk to and listen to the half of the country that rose up tonight and said, we’ve had enough,” he concluded.
Another big takeaway from all of this is that liberals and the Democratic Party are no longer the party that identifies and represents the “little guy,” the blue collar worker who is trying to support his family paycheck-to-paycheck. No, that’s the GOP, thanks to Trump. It’s astounding, but despite being a billionaire, he relates well with the average man and understands his struggle. He cares and has demonstrated that with his policies.
The left is completely out of touch. Will they do some serious soul searching and fix this?
I wouldn’t count on it.