CNN contributor Scott Jennings explained Donald Trump’s victory to a panel of hosts as they sat in silence. He talked about the president-elect not just clinching the electoral college, but also potentially winning the popular vote, a first for any Republican candidate since 2004.
“This is a big deal. This isn’t backing into the office,” Jennings told the CNN panel.
“This is a mandate to do what you said you were going to do. Get the economy working again for regular working-class Americans. Fix immigration. Try to get crime under control. Try to reduce the chaos in the world. This is a mandate from the American people to do that. I think I’m interpreting the results tonight as the revenge of just a regular old working-class American,” he continued.
Revenge of the average, everyday working class American. My reaction to Trump’s crushing victory on @cnn pic.twitter.com/JkhixYVGLS
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) November 6, 2024
Jennings added, “The anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted, condescended to. They’re not garbage; they’re not Nazis. They’re just regular people who get up and go to work every day and are trying to make a better life for their kids.”
He said, “And they feel like they have been told to just shut up when they have complained about the things that are hurting them in their own lives. I also feel like this election, as we sit here and pore over this tonight, is something of an indictment of the political information complex.”
Jennings mentioned the “gimmicks” Democrats used to try to win, including ads about women lying to their husbands, when really voters were concerned with “fundamentals.”
“Inflation, people feeling like that they were barely able to tread water at best,” the contributor said. “That was the fundamentals of the election. And so I think that both parties should always look at the results of an election and figure out what went right and what went wrong.”
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The political strategist said this should be treated as a lesson by the Democrats. “But I think for all of us who cover elections and talk about elections and do this on a day-to-day basis, we have to figure out how to understand, talk to and listen to the half of the country that rose up tonight and said, we’ve had enough,” he concluded.
As of Wednesday morning, Trump was leading Vice President Kamala Harris in the popular vote with 71.7 million votes as compared to 66.8 million.
