Now that President-elect Donald Trump has retaken the White House with a convincing win against Vice President Kamala Harris, pundits on television, and with newspapers and magazines across the nation and worldwide are sharing their hot takes on the win.
Here’s a sampling of what the punditry class is saying:
Fox News: Trump rose like a ‘phoenix from the ashes’
Fox News commentators on Tuesday night were already preparing for a Trump victory.
During the network’s election coverage, anchor Bret Baier called the Republican nominee “the biggest political phoenix from the ashes” in political history.
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Commentator Ben Domenech said it was the “most incredible political comeback that we’ve seen since 1968,” likely comparing Trump’s win to Richard Nixon’s turbulent path to victory in the late 1960s.
Anchor Laura Ingraham took it a step further: “I think it’s not just the greatest political comeback of all time … it will be the greatest comeback in history.”
USA TODAY: Harris wasn’t the ‘change candidate’
In poll after poll, Americans for months overwhelmingly said they believed the country was headed in the wrong direction, USA TODAY observed.
But given Harris’ status as a sitting vice president, she never fit the mold of a traditional “change candidate” and she remained tethered to Biden – staying loyal to him even as Americans made clear they disapproved of his handling of inflation and migration at the southern border, USA TODAY wrote.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid faults white women voters for Harris’ North Carolina loss
“The ReidOut” host and MSNBC correspondent Joy Reid was among the pundits sharing takeaways from results coming in Tuesday night.
As MSNBC commentators discussed Harris’ loss in the battleground state of North Carolina, Reid posited the reason for the loss.
“I think we have to be blunt about why. Black voters came through for Kamala Harris, white women voters did not,” she said. “It’s a state where women lost their reproductive rights, where there was a very heavy push to get women to focus on not … putting back into the White House the person who was responsible for taking those rights away.”
She added: “That message, obviously, was not enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman.”
Nate Cohn, New York Times data analyst: Harris faced impossible global headwinds
Political pundit Nate Cohn wrote, “in the wake of the pandemic and surging prices, voters in country after country in election after election have voted against the party in power. More broadly, the past two decades have featured the rise of right-wing populist parties and a corresponding decline in the strength of the center-left among working-class voters.”
CNN commentator Scott Jennings: Trump victory is ‘revenge of the working-class’
CNN commentator and USA TODAY columnist Scott Jennings interpreted Trump’s victory as “the revenge of just the regular old, working-class American,” he said on the network Tuesday night.
The political strategist attributed this group as “the anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted, condescended to. They’re not garbage. They’re not Nazis. They’re just regular people who get up and go to work every day and are trying to make a better life for their kids.”
Jennings also pointed out that Trump won the popular vote for “the first time for a Republican since 2004.”
Trump’s win is “a mandate to do what you said you were going to do: Get the economy working again for regular working-class Americans, fix immigration, try to get crime under control, try to reduce the chaos in the world,” he said.
San Francisco Chronicle: Harris failed to say how she would help struggling people, break from Biden
Chronicle correspondent Shira Stein wrote that although Harris benefited from President Joe Biden’s campaign infrastructure and the tens of millions of dollars already raised for their joint campaign, the enthusiasm for her candidacy peaked early on, and appeared to wane after she declined to break with him in any meaningful way.
In the campaign’s final weeks Stein also wrote Harris made a mistake by spending extensive time and energy courting Republicans and independents and returned to Biden’s ineffective messaging that focused on the threat to democracy that Trump posed, rather than what she would do for the country.
The UK’s Guardian: Biden’s record on inflation doomed Harris
British-based The Guardian pointed that President Joe Biden “racked up decades-high levels of inflation at the same time as openly musing about being more consequential than Barack Obama – not the metric Americans were looking for.”
The Guardian also opined that Harris’ “inability to separate herself from her boss coupled with her selection of Tim Walz as her running-mate probably doomed her bid. Think incredible lightness of being.”
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