The reactions of several media members to former President Donald Trump‘s victory in the 2024 election have gone viral.
Jonathan Capehart, a liberal commentator who contributes to the Washington Post and hosts The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC, said he was “mystified” by Trump gaining support from the 2020 election during PBS‘ live coverage of the election.
“There’s a shift right and then there’s a shift to Trump,” Capehart said. “I am mystified in some ways simply because we’re talking about a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, convicted-on-34-felony-counts former president.”
CNN anchor Jake Tapper went viral for his stunned reaction to Vice President Kamala Harris failing to outperform President Joe Biden‘s 2020 results in a single state Tuesday (November 5) night.
“Holy Smokes! Literally nothing?” Tapper said after asking CNN Chief National Correspondent John King to pull up a graphic showing states where she got at least 3% more than Biden, which instead showed a gray map.
“Literally nothing,” King responded.
“Literally not one county?” Tapper asked again, still shocked by the results.
King then switched the map to show counties instead of states, which revealed that Harris only outperformed Biden by 3% in a total 58 counties.
“So in counties, in 58 counties,” King said. “We just showed Donald Trump was over a thousand counties of the 4,600 counties and townships across America.”
“There might be more out here on the West Coast, possibly one or two more as they finish the count here, but in the states that matter – again, I just showed you all those Trump counties – in one county in battleground Pennsylvania, she’s outperforming President Biden by 3% or more,” he added.
Former Biden administration White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who now anchors her own program on MSNBC, shared a strong reaction while calling the race for Trump during the network’s live coverage early Wednesday morning.
“I wish I had better news for my daughter this election. I wish I could have called her and told her that the first woman president has been elected,” Psaki said. “I wish that. I won’t be able to do that. What I can do, what I can tell my daughter, what I will tell my daughter, is that our roles as American citizens have never been more important than they are right now.
“I can tell her that there are still lots of forces out there — forces for good in this country — and that they are going to be getting to work.”
Trump won 277 electoral college votes, defeating Harris in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia, all of which he’d previously lost in the 2020 election against Biden.
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