CBS chief political news correspondent John Dickerson was tasked on Wednesday’s CBS Mornings with explaining how Donald Trump pulled off his Grover Cleveland impression the previous night. As Dickerson tells it, the country had a “nostalgia for a past that didn’t exist” and wondered if sexism had anything to do with it.
Co-host Gayle King began with a slightly different question. Instead of wondering why Trump succeeded, she wondered why Kamala Harris failed, “Why didn’t this work?”
After Dickerson started giving the underwhelming reply of “he got more votes than she did,” King interrupted and tried again, “I know that, but, you know, we were saying this morning that some people believe that issues like the economy and immigration seem to transcend class and race. Is it that simple?”
Dickerson started out well enough, “Well, his…
