Identity politics had one MSNBC talking head finger-pointing at the demographic she believed needed to “address internally” voting for President-elect Donald Trump “Now for the third time.”
(Video: MSNBC)
After outraising and outspending the Republican Party, facing a candidate embroiled in legal battles and even swapping in a new nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, many among the left’s pundit class were struggling with the sweeping victory of Trump.
Among them was Harris’ own former spokesperson, Symone Sanders-Townsend who, on Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” unloaded on “white women” in particular for not being a monolith.
During a conversation about Trump’s gains across the board, including among black voters, Hispanics and even white women and how that “realigned the entire political map,” Sanders-Townsend expressed, “I’ve been very dismayed, actually, by this whole working class voter conversation because are black people not working class?..if you really want to boil it down, if it was really about the issues, if it was really about the message, how did the message break through to black working class people and it didn’t break through to the majority of anybody else?”
In the same segment where she would go on to rip former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), widely-credited as responsible for the “palace coup” against President Joe Biden, the talking head continued, “And I see y’all white women and Hispanic voters out there that are in my inbox right now saying, ‘but we voted for her.’ Yes, but let me explain how this works, okay? As black women in America, if something happens and somebody does something, you know, then it’s like, I understand I didn’t do it. But we got to address the things for everybody else. So, this is the box that we’re in.”
“I understand there are white women out here that voted for Kamala Harris, but baby 52% of y’all voted for Donald Trump. And this was not the first time. Now for the third time,” she added as pointed her finger at the camera. “So, you’ve got to come together and address it internally. So, I understand you didn’t do it, but enough people did where y’all got to have a conversation.”
Later on, Sanders-Townsend tore into Pelosi whom she said “helped orchestrate the very public demise of the president. And thank God for Joe Biden. He came out and, yes, endorsed his VP. Cause these people wanted and open primary! And for what?!”
She went on to contend strategists working for Harris “obviously fleeced the vice president’s campaign, and made a whole bunch of money,” and need to go away.
While some had already suspected that Pelosi and Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) would no longer have influence at the end of Trump’s second term, others argued the same could be said for corporate media as the candidate they’d held aloft and the policies that didn’t resonate with the desires of the American people were readily faulted for the Harris’ loss.
Y’all need to get a better candidate
— Sisyphus (@PoliSisyphus) November 9, 2024
The Dems should keep demonizing the majority of their voter base, white women, till they straighten up and toe the line!
— Barry McCockiner (@TakeJapper1) November 9, 2024
What do we need to have a conversation about, @SymoneDSanders ?
I voted for the candidate with the best policies, as I always do.
— Anmarie (@AnmarieInMn) November 9, 2024
— finchic (@Loricorbin10) November 9, 2024
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