CNN’s Scott Jennings Calls Trump Win ‘Revenge’ Of The Working American, Indictment of ‘Political Information Complex’
CNN contributor Scott Jennings took a victory lap Wednesday morning after Donald Trump was named president-elect by the network and it was clear he was likely to not only win the Electoral College, but the popular vote as well.
“This is a mandate. He’s won the national popular vote for the first time since, for a Republican, for the first time since 2004,” began Jennings, who has become one of the most prominent pro-Trump voices on the network – often sparring with his fellow panelists.
“This is a big deal. This isn’t backing into the office. 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,” Jennings continued, adding:
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.
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. I mean, we’ve been sitting around it for the last couple of weeks, and the story that was portrayed was not true. And we were told Puerto Rico was going to change election. Liz Cheney, Nikki Haley voters, women lying to their husbands. Before that, it was Tim Walz and the camo hats.
Night after night after night. We were told all these things and gimmicks were going to somehow push Harris over the line, and we were just ignoring the fundamentals. Inflation, people feeling like that they were barely able to tread water at best. 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.
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.
As of Wednesday morning, Trump led Vice President Kamala Harris in the popular vote with 71.4 million votes to 66.3 million. Trump also appeared on track to sweep all of the seven swing states.
