MEGHAN MCCAIN: Why is the Left so upset about THAT Town Hall? It set Trump up for electoral wipe-out

If last November’s midterm elections were the final nail in President Donald Trump’s political coffin, Wednesday’s CNN Town Hall might have been his resurrection.

With grinning and pointing fingers, Trump let that mob of Republican and undeclared New Hampshire voters eat out of his hand.

He absolutely steamrolled CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins, filibustering through her questions, dodging the hard ones (of which there were only a few) and pouncing on the easy ones.

This was the bad orange man in his element! Call the moving company, Melania. You’re going back to the White House.

Well, not so fast. Republicans, don’t be fooled. We know how this ends – in absolute electoral disaster for the GOP.

City Hall was a chaotic mess and the libs are furious.

“CNN should be ashamed of themselves,” Congressman Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “They’ve lost total control of this ‘town hall’… The audience cheers him and laughs at the host.”

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

Throughout most of the event, Collins, increasingly belligerent – clearly aware of the criticism she would receive – tried desperately to control a former president who was completely ignorant of the truth.

To Collins, this must have felt like an attempt to nail Jell-O to the wall.

Trump spent the first thirty minutes repeating the “stolen election lie.”

“Would you like to suspend the polarizing talk of electoral fraud during your presidential election?” asked the first participant at the town hall.

“Yes,” Trump replied. “Unless I see electoral fraud.”

Oh good.

From there, he rewrote his role in January 6 history.

If Collins had any good moments, one came when she pressed Trump for why he didn’t demand that the Capitol rioters stop their attack after it became clear that things had gotten dangerously out of hand. Trump fumbled and muddled and couldn’t come up with a decent excuse.

But that said, if I were a Republican presidential nominee, I’d be very nervous.

After all, this right-wing audience in the critical first-in-the-nation primary state hung on its every word.

They laughed and applauded as he fooled his accuser, E. Jean Carroll, who he now owes $5 million dollars in civil damages after being found liable for sexual assault and libel.

They cheered and chuckled when he called Florida’s Golden Boy governor “Ron De sanctimonious.”

You have to wonder what DeSantis or Nikki Haley were thinking last night: Is there still oxygen in the room after Trump stops talking?

MAGA Republicans shouldn’t start popping the champagne just yet, though.

This is a recipe for GOP disaster.

Allow me to drag us back to reality. Don’t forget what happened in the midterms. Nearly every Senate candidate who supported Trump lost.

No, he wasn’t on the ballot, but all of his MAGA disciples, from Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (if one can go lower), failed. And to make matters worse, Lake continues to complain about her “election stolen.”

If there’s anything that makes moderate and swing voters flee in horror, it’s this rigged election myth.

Trump can win the nomination, but he will lose the general election.

Purely for practical reasons, the former president wants to defeat the Republicans.

“We should have one-day elections,” he said in the first 10 minutes of the town hall. “We should have paper ballots, instead of these mail-in votes.”

Is he crazy? More than 37.6 million Americans, including 10 million Republicans and 9 million unaffiliated voters, voted by mail in 2020. Voting by mail is not going away, but he is discouraging his own voters from participating.

Trump also repeated the ludicrous claim that Vice President Mike Pence had the legal right to reject state-certified election results.

Finally, Trump’s misogyny has only become more pronounced and utterly shameless. He defended his bizarre claim that women allow famous men to sexually assault them. It’s actually one of his biggest hits.

First revealed in his leaked “Grab ’em by the p****” tape and reiterated in his testimony before the E. Jean Carroll trial, Trump believes men of certain status somehow do this get common privilege.

“People who are rich, people who are powerful, they tend to do pretty well in a lot of different ways, okay?” he said to Collins. “I’ve said it’s been true for a million years, about a million years, maybe a little longer than that.”

Pause for a second – think how insane this is.

Can you imagine a female swing voter who wouldn’t be completely and utterly alienated by comments like this?

Trump cannot win in 2024 without calling on more of America. And last night proved he is incapable of doing so.

By Thursday morning, CNN was feeling the heat — but liberals should be thanking them.

“It’s hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired Wednesday night on CNN,” wrote the network’s own media reporter, Oliver Darcy.

I do not agree.

It is CNN’s role as a news organization to provide a platform for presidential candidates. They have no control over what they say.

It is up to the voters to decide whether or not they like what they hear. And if anyone was hurt by that debacle, it was the Republican Party.

It’s time Republicans see through this. “The property of the liberals” will not solve the inflation problem, the fentanyl crisis or the division that will destroy our country.

President Joe Biden always says, “Don’t compare me to the Almighty. Compare me with the alternative.’

It’s one of the saddest campaign slogans in political history — an admission that he knows America is being rejected by him.

But he’s right.

If the Republican “alternative” is Trump, then we lose – again. Largely.

Thanks, CNN.