‘It Wasn’t Close’: Gayle King Cuts Off Hakeem Jeffries to Give Him Reality Check on the 2024 Election

CBS’s Gayle King cut off House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) during an interview to contest his assertion that the 2024 election was “close” on Tuesday morning.

King’s reality check for Jeffries came after her co-host Tony Doukopil argued that “it’s not that Democrats didn’t have programs and results they could point to to say, ‘We’re helping working families.’ But people didn’t hear it.”

Doukopil also submitted that Democrats have a “respect issue” with working class voters.

“Well, we clearly care about making life better for everyday Americans, and it drives everything that we do from a policy perspective. But of course, we’ve got to figure out how we can better connect the policies that we’ve worked hard to implement under the leadership of President Biden and Vice President Harris. You know, infrastructure, fixing our crumbling bridges, roads and tunnels, creating millions of good-paying union jobs. That’s putting people first. That was a policy, that actually happened,” replied Jeffries. “But we have to better connect why we are doing these things and how it will lead to improving the quality of life of every America.”

“It sounds like you’re still processing, but were you stunned last Tuesday night? I’m just curious. I know lessons learned and all of that, but were you stunned by what happened?” followed up King.

“Well, we knew going into the election, as Vice President Harris repeatedly stated, including at the convention, this is close and it’s going to be close-.”

“But it wasn’t close,” interjected King.

“-all the way through. I think at the end of the day, the popular vote will be close,” continued Jeffries. “I think it was, you know, an Electoral College outcome that most people on the Democratic side didn’t expect because everything broke at the presidential level in terms of Donald Trump’s direction.”

Watch above via CBS.