Former NBC anchor Brian Williams criticized the party for waiting until the 11th hour to gloss over its 2024 election strategy, calling the party disastrously out of touch with reality.
“It's a tough time for the Democratic Party. I think we need to tear it down and rebuild it,” the former “11th Hour” host told Seth Meyers on Wednesday's late-night show, adding that a change in party leadership may be in order. He added that there was no.
It's unclear why Williams waited until after Election Day, when Vice President Kamala Harris was disciplined and lost the popular vote and electoral college to President-elect Donald Trump, to assess the state of the Democratic Party.
Democrats also lost their majority in the Senate, but Republicans retained their majority in the House.
“I want to know who thought it was a good idea for Joe Biden to run for four more years at 80 years old and with a 37 percent approval rating,” Talkie Head said.
He went on to accuse the Biden administration of gaslighting Americans on issues like the economy and the border, which he told Meyers amounted to “insulting” blue-collar voters that Democrats desperately need. spoke.
“I think it's insulting that working-class people, who Democrats have completely lost in our lifetime, claim the economy is strong,” he added, adding that Bounty now sells about 40 12-packs of paper towels. It added that it was sold to consumers for USD.
“Rich people don't feel that way. Poor people were already switching to Sparkle during lockdown,” he says cheekily of the bargain brand.
“I think the biggest failure of the Biden administration so far has been on the border issue. It's an insult to tell people that that's not the issue.”
Under the Biden administration, Vice President and “border czar” Kamala Harris, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Customs and Border Protection officials will serve. Approximately 11 million encounters with illegal immigrants have been recorded. at the U.S. border since Biden took office.
This number is far lower than the 3 million recorded during the previous four years of President-elect Trump's first term.
“It's probably insulting to the working class to see immigrants getting welcome bags and debit cards and motel rooms, so there's a lot of work to be done,” Williams said. .
Williams, 65, left MSNBC and NBC News in 2021. In October, it was announced that he would be anchoring Amazon Prime Video's election night special coverage.
2015, NBC News hung the anchor in humiliation For repeatedly lying about his experience covering the Iraq War and falsely claiming he was on a helicopter that was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade.
