Veteran political analyst and best-selling author Mark Halperin told “The Brian Kilmeade Show” that he warned liberals and “Never Trump” Republicans that Trump was likely to defeat VP Kamala Harris.
Halperin reacted to mainstream media outlets, including MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezezinski, preparing to cover a second Trump presidency.
MARK HALPERIN: I really begged everyone I knew who was never a Trumper, someone with Trump Derangement Syndrome, or super anti-Donald Trump. I said he’s going to get 47% of the vote and he might get 50. But the difference between 47 and 50 is, you know, a few million Americans. You have to respect the fact that tens of millions of people will vote for him. And you have to be prepared for that. And some people heard me, but most of them didn’t. There’s something about Donald Trump that turns them on. Now, he brings a lot to himself through his behavior, through his rhetoric, through his behavior. But it goes beyond that. And, of course, it’s especially exacerbated by what I call the mainstream media, which creates this fantasy world of Joe Biden not having an acuity problem. Kamala Harris should be given the nomination without question. The open border is not an issue that people really care about. All this, the prosecutions of Donald Trump, the efforts to keep him off the ballot. Efforts to keep Bobby Kennedy off the ballot. All of this, the failure of the president and vice president to express outrage at the killing of American citizens by people in the country illegally. All these things add up to a blue bubble that they just can’t see.
I see this all the time. I’ll say to a Trump supporter, why doesn’t the left like Donald Trump? And they can explain it very easily. … And some of them feel the same way, but they still think he would be a better president than Kamala Harris. But most people on the left, if you say, why do people like Donald Trump? They are paralyzed. They cannot answer the question. And the litany that you and I just did together is a big part of the explanation, not the whole thing, but it’s a big part of it. And they simply, for some reason, cannot appreciate that tens of millions of their countrymen and women feel differently from them.
MSNBC’s morning show hosts sparked outrage within the liberal network after they revealed to their audience that they had traveled to Mar-a-Lago to chat with President-elect Trump.
“Shit,” reacted an MSNBC staffer to Fox News Digital. “Doing exactly that [anti-Trump historian] Tim Snyder warns on our broadcast not to: pre-convince. It’s disgusting, but frankly not surprising.”
The source said MSNBC’s rank and file are now “overwhelmingly dismissive” of the network’s morning stars, saying it “feels like they’re just being opportunistic.”
Others have taken to social media to express their objections. MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin called it “disgusting” on Bluesky, the X-like social media site that is growing in popularity with progressives. MSNBC host Katie Phang offered an indirect swipe, posting on X, “Normalizing Trump is a bad idea. Period.”
Fox News’ Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
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