After he watched hours of cable news coverage on election night, Media Research Center analyst Nicholas Fondacaro concluded the left-wing anchors and analysts are isolated from reality. On both CNN and MSNBC, he tells AFN, they were blinded yet again by a Trump victory with no explanation for his popularity.
“It exposed the fact the media elite are in a political silo sequestered away from the experiences of average Americans,” he says of election coverage.
In one example from CNN, shocked-looking political analyst Van Jones (pictured at right) appeared to be holding back tears after Trump was projected to win the White House.
"If you are a parent of a trans kid, your child's face was used as a springboard to power for somebody," Jones told fellow panelists Tuesday night.
That “somebody” Jones was referring to is Trump, of course, whose election victory must have disappointed black women and frightened illegal immigrants, according to Jones.
According to a related Blaze story, however, a CNN exit poll found 45% of Hispanic voters and 12% of black voters cast a ballot for Trump, who is supposedly an immigrant-hating racist.
Thanks to huge voter turnout, Trump crushed Kamala Harris at the polls. With election totals pending from only Nevada and Arizona by late Wednesday, Trump won more votes than Harris, 72 million versus 67.2 million, a difference of 4.8 million votes.
Trump was projected to return to the White House Tuesday night, when major media outlets reported he was winning Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes to put him over 270.
But it was his popular vote numbers that made jaws drop Tuesday night on CNN and MSNBC. Trump’s win in the popular vote marked the first time a Republican has done so since 1988, when President George Bush crushed Michael Dukakis, according to the Hill.
Ironically, as the first vote returns were coming in Tuesday evening, MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell was likening the Electoral College to “voter suppression” in blue states California and New York because their popular votes are being ignored.
“This Electoral College problem,” he told fellow panelists, “is one that bedevils us in the 21st century as it never has before.”
With the hated Republican nominee winning the popular vote, where could the liberal pundits turn to next?
According to Fondacaro, they are blaming sexism and racism on Trump’s victory instead of looking inward at the issues that mattered to voters.
“Many won’t learn the lessons from this election,” Fondacaro concludes, “and many don’t want to."
Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect Donald Trump has won Alaska and Michigan.
