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2024-11-07 02:05:06 UTC
CNN contributor Scott Jennings explained Donald Trumps victory to a
panel of hosts as they sat in silence. He talked about the president-
elect not just clinching the electoral college, but also potentially
winning the popular vote, a first for any Republican candidate since
2004.
This is a big deal. This isnt backing into the office, Jennings told
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 Im interpreting the results tonight as the revenge of just a
regular old working-class American, he continued.
Revenge of the average, everyday working class American. My
reaction to Trumps crushing victory on @cnn
pic.twitter.com/JkhixYVGLS
Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) November 6, 2024
Jennings added, The anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted,
condescended to. Theyre not garbage; theyre not Nazis. Theyre just
regular people who get up and go to work every day and are trying to
make a better life for their kids.
He said, And they feel like they have been told to just shut up when
they have complained about the things that are hurting them in their
own lives. I also feel like this election, as we sit here and pore over
this tonight, is something of an indictment of the political
information complex.
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, weve had enough, he concluded.
As of Wednesday morning, Trump was leading Vice President Kamala Harris
in the popular vote with 71.7 million votes as compared to 66.8
million.
panel of hosts as they sat in silence. He talked about the president-
elect not just clinching the electoral college, but also potentially
winning the popular vote, a first for any Republican candidate since
2004.
This is a big deal. This isnt backing into the office, Jennings told
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 Im interpreting the results tonight as the revenge of just a
regular old working-class American, he continued.
Revenge of the average, everyday working class American. My
reaction to Trumps crushing victory on @cnn
pic.twitter.com/JkhixYVGLS
Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) November 6, 2024
Jennings added, The anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted,
condescended to. Theyre not garbage; theyre not Nazis. Theyre just
regular people who get up and go to work every day and are trying to
make a better life for their kids.
He said, And they feel like they have been told to just shut up when
they have complained about the things that are hurting them in their
own lives. I also feel like this election, as we sit here and pore over
this tonight, is something of an indictment of the political
information complex.
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, weve had enough, he concluded.
As of Wednesday morning, Trump was leading Vice President Kamala Harris
in the popular vote with 71.7 million votes as compared to 66.8
million.
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