CNN host Michael Smerconish acknowledged that the mainstream media's “constant eyebrow-raising” against conservatives backfired and contributed to President-elect Trump's landslide victory last week.
In an interview with Mediaite.com editor Aidan McLaughlin Podcast “Press Club”, CNN Pundit He said voters are rebelling against the media's constant demonization of people who support the president-elect.
“It's like a parenting lesson. The more you tell them what they can't do, what they can't stand, don't do this, don't do that, the more they rebel. “I guess so,” he said.
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CNN host Michael Smerconish said he thinks the media's “constant eyebrow-raising” of Trump supporters will backfire on Democrats in the 2024 election. (Slaven Vlasic / Stringer)
McLaughlin asked Smerconish what he thought would be the big takeaway from the 2024 presidential election. The CNN host opened by admitting that “I had to think about it,” and declared that the media's overbearing way of portraying President Trump as a threat to the country was “at the top of my list.” did.
If people could make up their own minds about Trump without the media telling them how to vote, he thought, “they would have come to their own conclusions and rejected Donald Trump.”
“But I'm concerned about the constant frowning, media influence, four indictments, one conviction, and the loop broadcast of that awful joke that was played at Madison Square Garden a week before the election. I think it's a combination. I felt it and said it,” he told the Mediaite hosts.
Smerconish is a reference to the controversial anti-Puerto Rican joke that roast comic and Trump supporter Tony Hinchcliffe made at President Trump's New York City rally last month, calling the U.S. territory a “floating island of trash.” was mentioned.
The media characterized the joke as a huge insult to the Puerto Rican community by the Trump campaign in the days before the election.
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President-elect Donald Trump attends the America First Institute Gala at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on November 14, 2024. President Trump has announced a number of candidates to serve in his next administration. (Photo by Joe Radle/Getty Images) (Joe Radle/Getty Images)
President Biden appeared to respond to the joke by calling Trump supporters “trash,” making the moment even more controversial for Democrats, but it was a tone the Trump campaign exploited for its own gain. That was a good joke.
Smerconish said he had no predictions going into the election about whether Trump would win, but he felt the media's persistent negative comments about Trump could backfire. .
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“Aiden, I can't sit here and say, well, this is how I called the election, but I definitely felt the potential for a boomerang effect, and I think that's what came true. I really think so.”
Smerconish said Friday that going back to August, Trump had a significant advantage over Vice President Harris on policy.
Mr. Smerconish said of Mr. Trump, “The issue is that one of the issues in the campaign is character. If that's the case, he's going to lose.'' However, Mr. He added that Trump would “probably win” the fight.
Fellow liberal commentator HBO host Bill Maher recently cited the reason he thinks Vice President Kamala Harris lost to Trump because the Democratic Party is too radical. “Two years after the pandemic ended, you're all wearing 'Queer for Palestine' T-shirts and masks. And you can't define women. I mean 'Queer for Palestine.' “People who menstruate,'' he said Friday on “Real Time with Bill Maher.'' . ”
He added: “You, the Education Party of the teachers' unions, have made a laughing stock of schools and universities. You have simply lost a mad contest with some truly mad people.”
– FOX News’ Jeffrey Clark contributed to this report.
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