Posted on 11/08/2024 8:00:37 AM PST by TigerClaws
CNN pundit Van Jones says Democrats’ media strategy is a major reason Vice President Harris lost this week’s presidential election to former President Trump.
“We got beat because the conservatives and Republicans built a different media system,” Jones said on the channel Thursday. “It had to do with online, had to do with podcasts, with streaming platforms. And they were spending their money there.”
Jones bemoaned that many Democrats and mainstream media outlets were “laughing at Trump for throwing away his ground game and doing weird stuff online.”
“It turned out we were the idiots,” he continued. “We woke up in a body bag because while we were knocking on doors, they were making these phones into 24-hour-a-day political weapons for themselves.”
Trump won handily Tuesday, sweeping the seven swing states after weeks of spurning interviews with mainstream media outlets. He opted instead for appearances on popular podcasts and internet programs — including Joe Rogan’s and other shows with audiences predominantly made up of young men, a voting bloc the GOP candidate aggressively courted.
The former president has also kept close to Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News host who now presides over a program on the social platform X, and the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, during his run for the White House.
Though Democrats had some success downballot, they are likely facing a GOP trifecta for at least the next two years; in addition to winning the White House, Republicans flipped the Senate on Tuesday and are favored to maintain a slim House majority.
How do the people running things - there only because of D.E.I. - fire themselves and start over?
Lefties losing it is always funny but watch the analysis in the second half:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUO94UjQrV4
The commentator makes a great point - that Trump picked up the working class voters (Nixon’s ‘lunch pail’ crowd) away from the Dem party who went too far left.
I could have told him that a while ago.
The legacy media is killing itself, just like the Leftists are killing the Dem party. It’s there for all to see, if they open their eyes.
Complete mornon. I got no text at all from team Trump. I got dozens form Alt Left dark money organization I never hear of nagging me to vote for Harris. I have a hand me down phone but I have no idea how I got on their list
While Rush noted that “mainstream” media was still strong, it was a 1/3 of the size it was in the past 50s/60s/70s. If you provide a crappy product, someone else will fill the void.
He’s partially right. Team Trump outfoxed them at every turn. But he also needs to admit the party want waaaaay too far left, and that Biden’s policies caused his defeat. Raging inflation, unchecked illegal immigration, wars, etc.
We've been telling you that for a LONG time, but being libs, you don't listen!
It’s about time Jones is right about something.
The SF communist is now the sane one at Clinton News .
Supposedly Discovery promised to make Cnn unbiased.
Its worse now,
I think you’ll find there are a lot of top level CEO’s on the psychopathy scale. Their feelings aren’t hurt, they aren’t scared. They don’t feel that kind of stuff. They’ll say and do anything to move forward.
Boeing will recover when and execs will put on their new Merit System Hats.
“I could have told him that a while ago.”
My first thought, too. Everybody on FR knew that long ago.
I agree, his analysis is way off. That was only one arm of their attack. They beat you everywhere, Van. It was your policies and message that the people rejected. The medium didn’t matter.
Self aware. I like that.
He is saddened that President Trump did not take the bait and appear on netwroks for “interviews” where he would be asked repeatedly when he stopped raping little girls.
Jones partially gets it.
I was viscerally disgusted with all the libs calling people like me Nazis. I am pretty sure there are others like me.
I want the crazy to stop. *That’s* why Trump won.
This guy has like 6 personalities and one of them almost is normal sounding then one of the other 5 pops up and shuts him down.
“The commentator makes a great point - that Trump picked up the working class voters (Nixon’s ‘lunch pail’ crowd) away from the Dem party who went too far left.”
Trump can take it even further by eliminating taxes on overtime pay much like what Alabama has recently done.
These dems are blaming all sorts of peripheral stuff, e.g. logistics, while the majority of the blame can be laid on their pathetic candidates and policies.
How about the extra cost of groceries and gasoline that was directly caused by the present administration?
Yeah - us little people notice things like that.
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