“CBS Mornings” host Gayle King had to remind House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) that Vice President Kamala Harris — and Democrats across the board — had lost, and lost big, in the general election held just a week earlier.
King had to interrupt and correct Jeffries, who was poised to take the gavel if control of the House of Representatives had passed into Democrats’ hands, when he suggested that the race had been a close one.
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CBS: “It sounds like you are still processing… It wasn’t close.”
HAKEEM: “I think… the popular vote will be close.”
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— NRCC (@NRCC) November 12, 2024
Cohost Tony Doukopil suggested that Democrats had some good policies and successes, but had ultimately failed to present them in a way that resonated with the voters. He also argued that the Democratic Party’s presentation had made especially working class voters feel as though they were not really respected.
“Well, we clearly care about making life better for everyday Americans, and it drives everything that we do from a policy perspective,” Jeffreis replied. “But of course, we’ve got to figure out how we can better connect the policies that we’ve worked hard to implement under the leadership of President Biden and Vice President Harris. You know, infrastructure, fixing our crumbling bridges, roads, and tunnels, creating millions of good-paying union jobs. That’s putting people first. That was a policy that actually happened. But we have to better connect why we are doing these things and how it will lead to improving the quality of life of every American.”
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“It sounds like you’re still processing, but were you stunned last Tuesday night? I’m just curious. I know lessons learned and all of that, but were you stunned by what happened?” King asked.
“Well, we knew going into the election, as Vice President Harris repeatedly stated, including at the convention, this is close and it’s going to be close —” Jeffries said.
“But it wasn’t close,” King interrupted.
” — all the way through. I think at the end of the day, the popular vote will be close. I think it was, you know, an Electoral College outcome that most people on the Democratic side didn’t expect because everything broke at the presidential level in terms of Donald Trump’s direction.”
As of Tuesday, November 12, the popular vote totals stand at 71,898,818 (48.1%) for Vice President Kamala Harris and 75,158,912 (50.3%) for Trump — a difference of more than three million votes.
