The Christmas edition of CNN This Morning tried to throw a wet blanket on Trump’s win, saying voters chose him despite his lies, etc. A panelist cast Kamala’s campaign as always having been a long shot, a “Hail Mary.”
When panelists downplayed the scope of Trump’s win, Republican strategist Brad Todd scored the segment’s zinger, saying:
“I am all for Democrats under-reading this, and convincing themselves that this was this was really not as bad as it was. Donald Trump took the gains that he’d made in 2016 with the white working class and extended it to working-class voters of color. That is a major, major change.”
Host Kasie Hunt headed the cold water brigade, beginning the segment by saying that after the 2020 election, Trump “attempted to overthrow the results of that election in ways that resulted in dozens of criminal charges, after a violent…
