On the first Sunday following Donald Trump’s sweeping victory on November 5, CBS’s 60 Minutes featured a somber post-election analysis carried out by Scott Pelley, the former CBS Evening News anchor who previously treated President Biden to two absurd softball interviews.
Pelley’s apparent disappointment at the election result was outshone only by his seeming lack of understanding as to what possibly could have led to a second Trump victory.
Much of the discussion felt as though it had been plucked out a 2016 election postmortem. Evidently Pelley had only just begun to notice middle class voters abandoning the Democratic party for Trump due to the economy and the border.
Pelley’s first interview subject was Roz Werkheiser, a restaurant owner who supported Trump on November 5 for primarily economic reasons:
SCOTT PELLEY: You grew up in a Democratic…
