MSNBC ridiculed for insisting Trump and Kamala are still in a ‘dead heat’
MSNBC has been ridiculed for insisting that former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris were still in a dead heat as the former president secured 230 electoral votes.
A panel of commentators and analysts were discussing the election results Tuesday night when former White House communications director Nicole Wallace made the absurd claim.
“I mean, I think one piece of good news is that the polls have accurately captured this dead heat,” she said.
The liberal commentator had suggested that Harris still had a path to victory through the so-called “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin – despite Trump’s lead.
“It was always going to be a ‘blue wall’ night, and I think, I mean, I tried to appeal to some of these fantasies about a landslide victory that would eradicate the threat of something long-term.”
Former White House communications director Nicole Wallace claimed Tuesday that former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris were still in a “dead heat” even though Trump had secured 230 electoral votes.
She then quoted former US Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld saying: “You go to the polls with the country we have, and the country we have lives in two completely separate ecosystems.
“Whatever happens, we really need to understand young men’s information consumption and why they think the economy will be better under Donald Trump when it never has been,” Wallace said of a large voting bloc for the former president .
“I think the wait for these blue wall states to come because they’re so close is because households are divided, right? There could be a yard sign in the house that doesn’t indicate that everyone in the house is going to vote either way, and so I think it’s going to be a long night,” the liberal news anchor said.
Many online were quick to seize on her comments, with one X user replying: ‘Dead heat? It’s a blowout.’
Colin J Smothers, executive director of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, noted that the left-wing network labeled the presidential race a dead end “while the NYTimes needle reads 88 percent Donald Trump.”
A third X user said he was “watching MSNBC, which I never do, and [am] just completely blown away by the sheer idiocy of these show hosts.
Many online seized on Wallace’s comments as Trump had a clear lead over Vice President Kamala Harris
“Are we really supposed to believe that our Dem-betters get their news from these low-IQ idiots,” he asked. “They still call it a dead heat.”
Meanwhile, yet another social media user suggested: ‘If you want to know what media bias looks like… there it is.’
Trump won the critical swing state of North Carolina and the 16 Electoral College votes late Tuesday evening at a crucial moment in the election.
The Tar Heel State was a key target for both campaigns and was the scene of frenzied campaigning, with Trump stopping there in the final three days of the race.
In a major boost for the Republican, the first of the seven swing states that will ultimately determine the winner had to be decided.
He has also won in Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Ohio, Louisiana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Utah, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas – gained 230 electoral votes at midnight on Wednesday.
Trump won the critical swing state of North Carolina and its 16 Electoral College votes at a crucial moment in the election late Tuesday night
Harris’ campaign chairman Jen O’Malley Dillon told staff in a memo that, after losing North Carolina, the “blue wall” northern industrial states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were now the Democrat’s “clearest path” to victory.
Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has collected votes in Vermont, Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, Illinois, New Jersey, Colorado, Washington DC, California, Maine, Virginia, New Mexico, Oregon – gaining 210 electoral votes.
Harris’ campaign chairman Jen O’Malley Dillon told staff in a memo that, after losing North Carolina, the “blue wall” northern industrial states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were now the Democrat’s “clearest path” to victory.
She suggested the race “wouldn’t come into focus until the early hours of the morning.”