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.
Seems the podcast world is filling in some of that void. Real discussions that aren't filtered or choreographed. It is said that Barron Trump had the ear of his dad and the campaign in this arena.
Harris shot herself in the foot when she turned down an appearance with Rogan, or at least put so many limits on it to make such a podcast a waste of time for Rogan and the American people.
I seem to remember when Barry Soreto occupied the White House, the leftist media gushed on how smart he was with social media. Now - a real man 15 years his senior - kicked his and the leftist medias’s arse on social media platforms.
The thing is, Cheney’s endorsement of Kamala probably deflated Democrats to the point where it made many just stay home.
It’s not really a level playing field.
Keep telling yourself that, Van.
It couldn’t possibly be because you ran a horrible candidate who ran a completely tone deaf campaign or the fact that your party has been hijacked by a bunch of raving lunatics who have absolutely no clue about what normal Americans want or need.
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Michigan Muslims were ticked about the Cheney appearances and her team obviously didn’t think that through.
They had ads pro-Israel in one state and anti-Israel in another and even CNN called them out on it.
Podcasts are for sure filling the void of MSM going completely left.
Barron told his dad to do the podcast tour, which connected Trump to a new generation of younger voters.
legacy media ratings plunged over 30% election night...Trump never sat down with the NY Times or the Washington Post etc...something unheard of 20 years ago. Trump going on Joe Rogan has almost 50 MILLION VIEWS on you tube alone. This is bigger than people think it is...the size of Trumps win proves once and for all the legacy media is dead. Expect major shake-ups....This might be Trumps biggest victory of all...
And you could count the number of Republicans who voted for Kamala because of Liz, on one hand.
You shouldn’t have fallen for all those Republican “endorsement”. That was a trap and you idiots fell into it.
Van Jones on Trump win: ‘It turned out we were the idiots’
Yawn.......we knew that.
This is election is a YUUGE repudiation of Obama and his fundamental transformation of America.
“We got beat because the conservatives and Republicans built a different media system,”
Yeah, one that got the TRUTH out despite your censorship efforts and lies.
This was not a good option for harris as she could have never made it an hour in a serious free-form serious probing interview, let alone three hours. The few interviews she did do were not on serious outlets and not in opposing camps.
Dems could win if they....
1. Cut out the tranny extreme sex stuff;
2. Close the borders;
3. Do the ‘Scranton Joe’ “Bill Cliinton good ol’ boy” new democrat fake to the center.
Candidate from WI, MI, OH.
Be difficult to beat.
MAGA has gone beyond the old Liberal/Conservative paradigm.
Gop won the WH, flipped the Senate and are favored to maintain a House
majority. Democrats are facing a GOP trifecta for the next two years.
And for the following eight years, they’ll no doubt face a JD Vance WH.
No, you’re not idiots. In my mind, literally, you’re criminals and members of a propaganda group, not the media.
Ain’t Affirmative Action wonderful. It couldn’t be Trump had a better message.
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