I didn’t just want Donald Trump to win the election; I wanted him to win the national popular vote. And he did.
For the first time since 2004, a Republican presidential candidate won both the Electoral College and the national popular vote. This is a huge validation of the Make America Great Again movement. And as Trump has said, it is a movement.
CNN’s Scott Jennings captured the essence of Donald Trump’s victory with a strong message, declaring, accurately, that Trump was given a “mandate” from the American people. Jennings saw Trump’s decisive victory as an endorsement of his agenda.
“This is a big deal. This isn’t backing into the office. This is a mandate to do what you said you were gonna do,” Jennings declared.
To Jennings, this mandate reflects a desire for serious, tangible reforms that touch on key issues for everyday Americans. He outlines the people’s priorities clearly: “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.” It’s a to-do list straight from the average American’s concerns, making this election a response to years of feeling unheard and sidelined.
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Jennings framed this outcome as the triumph of the “regular old working-class American,” those “anonymous” citizens who have endured a constant stream of ridicule and condescension from the left and the media. “They’re not garbage. They’re not Nazis," Jennings said. "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,” he said. This isn’t just rhetoric; it’s a rebuke of the elite-driven narrative that has dismissed and minimized legitimate grievances held by the working class.
Jennings doesn’t stop at the voter’s message. He also calls out the so-called “political information complex” for failing to capture the reality on the ground.
He’s right. Over the last few weeks, the liberal media offered countless narratives, from Puerto Rico’s supposed impact to speculation about Nikki Haley voters and Liz Cheney Republicans voting for Kamala in large numbers.
As Jennings recalls, “Night after night after night, we were told all these things and gimmicks were gonna somehow push Harris over the line, and we were just ignoring the fundamentals.” These distractions missed the core issues: inflation, struggling wages, and the broader sense that many Americans were “barely able to tread water.”
"This election is something of an indictment on the political information complex. The story that was portrayed was not true. We were just ignoring the fundamentals."
— Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA) November 6, 2024
Scott Jennings does a flawless job taking down an entire panel of woke CNN hosts. pic.twitter.com/w2eBJeTi6E
In Jennings’s view, this election is a wake-up call not just for the political establishment but for those who cover and analyze elections. He argued it’s time to move past the distractions and start listening to the “half of the country that rose up tonight and said, we’ve had enough.” This mandate, Jennings implies, isn’t just Trump’s; it belongs to every American who felt neglected and undervalued.
And we're going to take this country back and fix what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris broke.
