The media, which spent much of 2024 sounding the alarm that former President Trump was a threat to democracy, looked particularly favorably on election night when it began to look like former President Trump would win. I didn't accept it.
Despite years of unflattering reports from traditional media, Fox News predicts that Trump will become the 47th president of the United States.
Faced with this obvious reality, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow suggested that President Trump would ban abortion nationwide by executive order, while her colleague Alex Wagner said that MAGA would come with “legs.” I struggled with the reality that it was a real movement.
CBS' Gayle King expressed concern about Trump's unfettered leadership, saying, “It looks like he's coming into power with no guardrails.”
MSNBC's Joy Reid declared, “No one wants Donald Trump to be president more.” [Israeli Prime Minister] Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is supported by a far-right coalition that aims to completely ethnically cleanse Gaza. ”
Donald Trump elected as the next President of the United States
When it became clear on election night that he would defeat Vice President Kamala Harris, liberal commentators did not take it particularly well. (Getty Images)
Liberal pundits and journalists began sweating at 10 p.m. ET after Trump's endorsement in Iowa. That's because a lot of talk was about shocking data from pollster J. Ann Selzer over the weekend that claimed Vice President Kamala Harris was in the lead. The state as gospel.
“This is starting to sound like an after-the-fact report,” Lester Holt said on NBC.
MSNBC's Nicole Wallace asked what information young people are looking at to think the economy will improve under the Trump administration. Liberal website BuzzFeed shared a bright blue map with the caption, “We ran 80,000 simulations. Trump was the absolute worst in every one of them.”
MSNBC analyst Molly Johnfast deleted an X post from earlier in the evening in which she predicted that “Harris will win.” She then posted on Instagram, “I feel like throwing up.”
With Pennsylvania looking like it could be tilted in President Trump's favor, NBC panelists said Harris could have chosen popular Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate. He criticized them harshly for spending too much time on it.
As midnight approaches on the East Coast, MSNBC's Jen Psaki appears on NBC and suggests questions about whether President Biden is a better candidate than Harris will soon be “part of the discussion.” did.
“If you were campaigning right now, you'd be pretty depressed,” said Psaki, who served as Biden's first press secretary.
CNN's John King pointed out that Trump controls Waukesha County, Wisconsin, and said, “This is a place where the Harris campaign hopes that, “Women, you don't have to tell your husband who to vote for.'' That's where I was,” he said. “”
Reid argued on MSNBC that Harris' loss in North Carolina was essentially the fault of white women.
“Black voters voted for Kamala Harris, white women voters didn't, and that seems to be what happened in that state,” Reid told viewers.
“This will be the second time white women in this country have to change the way they interact with the patriarchy,” she continued. “If people don't accept that, and people vote partisans that care more about protecting race and gender than sex, then there's not much more that can be done.”
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Far-left commentator Elie Mystal agreed, writing, “Black people did their job. Trump's gains with Latinos are real. Trump is one of them. It's over.”
Liberal blogger Aaron Looper essentially declared that Americans are racist.
“If Trump wins, there will be an outcry against Russian interference and the Harris campaign and Biden and others. That's all fair and square. But vast swaths of America like what Trump is selling. , we need to take a hard look at. Transphobia, mass deportation. That's what he ran for, and here we are,” Looper wrote to X.
Shortly before 1 a.m. ET, CNN's Tapper declared that anyone would rather be in Trump's shoes than Harris's, as the former presidential candidate calls Georgia.
“If she doesn't win Pennsylvania, it's over,” CNN's Dana Bash said.
CNN then aired Harris campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond announcing that Harris would not speak to supporters on election night. It echoed what happened in 2016, when Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta briefly addressed a somber audience before announcing he would not attend.
“That's not a big crowd, that's not a celebratory mood,” CNN's Audie Cornish said, before comparing Bash to Clinton's infamous Javits Center event in 2016.
Looking gloomy, Tapper said he “must admit” that the Harris campaign took a huge risk in trying to appeal to “secret” voters.
NBC's Chuck Todd accused Democrats of “completely misunderstanding” Latino voters by using terms like “Latino.”
CNN's Van Jones became emotional thinking about those who were “hurt” by the outcome.
“I'm thinking about all the people who are hurting tonight, who are not part of anyone's elite. There are African-American women who know a thing or two about being called names and having their financial dreams shattered. “I know a little bit about that. They've been trying to dream big for the past few months, and tonight they're trading great hope for great hurt,” Jones said.
“They were hoping that this time one of them might be considered worthy,” Jones continued. “They are facing rejection again.”
Afterward, Jones told CNN viewers that it's not just black women who are “hurting.”
“If you're the parent of a transgender child, your child's face has been used as a stepping stone to empower someone else, and that doesn't feel good,” Jones said.
Harris will not speak from Howard University on election night as planned.
Jonathan Capehart said on PBS that he was “perplexed” by Trump's support from 2020.
“Who are we as a country? I don't know if I like it or not,” Capehart said. He then added, “I can't help but wonder if the American people have abandoned democracy.”
“The View” co-host Alyssa Farrah Griffin said on CNN that Harris was hurt by Biden's “unpopularity,” but the vice president respectfully said she would “not throw her boss under the bus.” ” said he had made a choice.
Liberal pundits realized that once Pennsylvania went to Trump at 1 a.m. ET, Harris had no chance of winning. President Trump immediately addressed his supporters.
“He will essentially be a one-term president,” Lester Holt told NBC viewers.
True, Trump will never be a presidential candidate again, but he has made perhaps the most surprising political comeback in American history.
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Fox News Digital's David Rutz, Alexa Moutevelis, Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Nikolas Lanum, Lindsay Kornick, Yael Halon and Alexander Hall contributed to this report.
