As the smoke clears over a long and grueling 2024 election, people are naturally reflecting and taking stock of the result. Opinions are going to fly, but I think if anyone summed up the results the best so far, I’d have to give that to CNN contributor Scott Jennings.
Last night, Jennings sat on a panel with dumbfounded CNN talking heads who, judging by all the other clips, couldn’t seem to wrap their heads around how Donald Trump, a man they convinced themselves was the epitome of evil and corruption, could have won the election. Jennings sat and thoughtfully explained it all masterfully as the rest of his panelists sat in silence, listening.
He began by calling this a “mandate,” saying Trump won the national popular vote, and now he has to do what he said he was going to, including getting the economy back up and running, fixing the border, reducing…