Posted on 11/01/2020 1:12:25 PM PST by Signalman
Even though ABC spent part of their Sunday marveling at chants of “we love you” at massive Trump rallies, CBS Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan thought she was confronting Republican Party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel with accusations that President Trump’s supporters weren’t enthusiastic about him. Not only was Brennan schooled by McDaniel, CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell later warned of the “shy Trump voter” gaining courage.
In the midst of her contentious interview with the RNC Chairwoman, Brennan recalled that McDaniel had invested a lot of funding into the Republican Party ground game all across the country. But, without evidence, she tried to cast doubt on how much Trump supporters backed their president. “If your voters are so excited about President Trump, why haven't they shown up yet,” she sneered. While McDaniel was explaining how Republicans prefer to vote on Election Day (a historical fact, not to mention data shows that Republicans were catching up to Democrats in early voting), Brennan rudely interrupted her guest and asked: “Why?”
McDaniel then schooled Brennan on how Republicans save their enthusiasm for Election Day and show up in big numbers
Continuing to push her assertion that the bottom had fallen out of Trump’s support, Brennan pounced on McDaniel’s recent comments to The Wall Street Journal regarding how some of Trump’s support amongst suburban woman had “faded away.” “Our data shows it more than faded, it’s been a large swing. Why have you lost women in that way,” Brennan chided.
“So, women are issue voters. We know this, Margaret. We're not monolithic,” McDaniel shot back in part. “We’re over 50 percent of the electorate. We’re not single-issue voters. But we're making decisions based on our lives, and every issue impacts us. But I do think one of the overwhelming issues we’re seeing that’s bringing them back in the suburbs is law and order.”
Towards the end of the program, when CBS’s election night crew gathered to discuss what could happen in the horse race, Brennan’s proclamations of the unenthusiastic Trump supporter got sunk by CBS colleague Norah O’Donnell.
As political correspondent Ed O’Keefe was telling viewers about how a new poll out of Iowa “shows that Joni Ernst is actually in the lead after weeks of polling suggested that her Democratic opponent, Theresa Greenfield pulled ahead,” O’Donnell interjected by noting it showed enthusiasm for Trump was growing.
“That Iowa poll suggests, in fact, that the shy Trump voter is emerging,” she declared.
Not only did it signal general enthusiasm going up, according to O’Donnell, but he was gaining in some of the demographics Brennan had hyped him losing. “That independents are going back towards Donald Trump,” she said. “That actually some women are returning to the Republican fold who were there in 2016, and may not have been able to say it publicly in a poll or to their friends, that that has come back.”
And it wasn’t just O’Donnell, CBS This Morning co-host and Democratic donor Gayle King seemed to agree that a message was being sent by Trump’s supporters.
These people need to look outside their bubble. It is going to bite them even harder in the tush this time.
Not so much shy; just wary. We’ve seen over four years of Leftist insanity and we know what will happen to our parked cars if we have a Trump bumble sticker on them.
No enthusiasm? She’s not been living lately on this planet.
Many people can get in trouble at their workplace or school by saying they support Trump, and/or they do not support BLM or “diversity”. So you’re not going to hear from these people until they go to the polls!
I voted early in person, but I am a registered Independent. So I did not count with the pollsters and bean-counters. Nevertheless, I voted for Trump/Pence, and for ALL down-ballot Republicans. There may be many more like me.
So once the votes are counted, we shall add to the overwhelming total of Trump votes, and flush Biden/Harris right down the drain!!!!
LOL- i just got back from a Trump Train Rally in very liberal Westchester County, NY. It was pouring rain and there were 4000 to 5000 people at the rally.
Let the lib media continue to lie.
They live in a different “reality” that is not compatible with actual reality. The two cannot coexist. There’s already violence. Some smart people should start working on a way to do a peaceful (as is possible) separation.
Wicked smart
Yes they are in a bubble.
Too many in the media, never get out of the New York/Washington axis, and don’t know what’s happening in the rest of the country. They don’t understand how other people think, or how they view candidates and issues. Our media overlords view everything through the liberal prism of the New York/Washington axis.
“””Many people can get in trouble at their workplace or school by saying they support Trump, and/or they do not support BLM or “diversity”.”””
If my wife went to work and said she voted for Trump they would throw her out a window. And she wouldn’t dare say anything negative about the BurnLootMurder gang.
They believe in all kinds of diversity..unless you are a Republican.
The best response would have been “Besides here in the CBS newsroom have you ever met any enthusiastic Biden voters?”
How do these clowns make this kind of statement with a straight face?
The best response would have been “Besides here in the CBS newsroom have you ever met any enthusiastic Biden voters?”
Well....to be fair...she is an idiot.
If the CBS people would just open their eyes. They don’t have to agree with Trump or his supporters, but just look and listen.
Trump rallies are big, noisy and enthusiastic. Much more like rock concerts than the typical police rally. People are smiling, waving signs and really having a great time.
Then look at a Biden rally. They look more like wakes. It’s as if the attendees (the few who are allowed into their hula hoop circles) might applaud politely, but there is no jumping up and down, and no big grins underneath their masks.
That’s “bumper sticker”: IPads apparently have a Leftist auto-correct built in!
I paid for two Trump signs...been told not to put them up on our property...so going to go out at dusk and put one on major interstate road, and let someone steal it, if they must. This is western Oregon...the screaming banshees and their gutter language at the mere sight of the signs we were carrying yesterday says a lot.
I am not shy about my thoughts and feelings on politics but I feel it should be personal as my Grandmother taught me. The left is consumed by it and as we see,they are violent children. They need to stop poking us. Everybody has the breaking point where the bully gets what is coming.
The problem is: Who is counting the votes? Can we ever be sure your vote is counted correctly?
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