May 30, 2025 10:01 PM
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MSNBC 2024 Election Night - Highlights
https://youtu.be/ltT1xyT3alE
VIDEO EXCERPTS: [... At the start of the coverage ...]
If this is an audition for managing a complex organization like the United States, Kamala Harris has passed the audition flawlessly. This has been in many ways a perfect campaign. She had barely any time to put it together, but just as a managerial matter it's been brilliantly done.
You just don't see the other side doing this. Instead, it's Charlie Kirk -- to whom the Trump campaign outsourced the parts of its ground game that they didn't give to Elon Musk -- going on X or Twitter this morning and begging people to vote. So their ground game is to go on Twitter or X and beg people. Whereas the Harris campaign's ground game is literally multiple taps at each door. They're going back to people, texting, calling going to the door -- do you need a ride?
It's like what Obama did. It's numerous touches on voters who don't vote.
They saw Donald Trump demeaning people, hosting misogynist hate gatherings, talking about murdering innocent Americans who happen to be journalists. Which is his special problem, people who can hold him to account. And they saw something very different from the closing campaign of Harris.
I've heard the Philly turnout is higher than they expected, in a good way for the Harris team. I'm hearing the turnout is high, the lines are long, the Democrats are very encouraged by what they're seeing specifically from college campuses.
[... Toward the end of the coverage ...]
We got our butts kicked tonight, and we got to figure out how to move forward-looking, and I just think the Democrats right now have to just reckon with the fact that there's a fundamental brand problem with the party as far as not reaching, like, a huge swath of the country.
[...] Who else can we blame? Working class are actually mad at everyone, they're mad at the system, they're mad at the establishment. Democrats have thought in the last few years [that they're to blame?]. And while we can all say that Donald Trump does absolutely nothing for them -- that's true from a policy perspective -- they look around and somehow still they feel connected with his personality.
[...] The only bright spot in this entire night was that white college educated women were not having it [the Trump spiel]. That said, white non-college educated women were all in...
MSNBC 2024 Election Night - Highlights ... https://youtu.be/ltT1xyT3alE
PBS 2024 Election Night - Highlights
https://youtu.be/rWhXlVl4Uoc
CNN 2024 Election Night - Highlights
https://youtu.be/nT5WZ0b4chU
NBC 2024 Election Night - Highlights
https://youtu.be/EcjHD-7xmCQ
CBS 2024 Election Night - Highlights
https://youtu.be/5fihvvRXBB0
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MSNBC 2024 Election Night - Highlights
https://youtu.be/ltT1xyT3alE
VIDEO EXCERPTS: [... At the start of the coverage ...]
If this is an audition for managing a complex organization like the United States, Kamala Harris has passed the audition flawlessly. This has been in many ways a perfect campaign. She had barely any time to put it together, but just as a managerial matter it's been brilliantly done.
You just don't see the other side doing this. Instead, it's Charlie Kirk -- to whom the Trump campaign outsourced the parts of its ground game that they didn't give to Elon Musk -- going on X or Twitter this morning and begging people to vote. So their ground game is to go on Twitter or X and beg people. Whereas the Harris campaign's ground game is literally multiple taps at each door. They're going back to people, texting, calling going to the door -- do you need a ride?
It's like what Obama did. It's numerous touches on voters who don't vote.
They saw Donald Trump demeaning people, hosting misogynist hate gatherings, talking about murdering innocent Americans who happen to be journalists. Which is his special problem, people who can hold him to account. And they saw something very different from the closing campaign of Harris.
I've heard the Philly turnout is higher than they expected, in a good way for the Harris team. I'm hearing the turnout is high, the lines are long, the Democrats are very encouraged by what they're seeing specifically from college campuses.
[... Toward the end of the coverage ...]
We got our butts kicked tonight, and we got to figure out how to move forward-looking, and I just think the Democrats right now have to just reckon with the fact that there's a fundamental brand problem with the party as far as not reaching, like, a huge swath of the country.
[...] Who else can we blame? Working class are actually mad at everyone, they're mad at the system, they're mad at the establishment. Democrats have thought in the last few years [that they're to blame?]. And while we can all say that Donald Trump does absolutely nothing for them -- that's true from a policy perspective -- they look around and somehow still they feel connected with his personality.
[...] The only bright spot in this entire night was that white college educated women were not having it [the Trump spiel]. That said, white non-college educated women were all in...
MSNBC 2024 Election Night - Highlights ... https://youtu.be/ltT1xyT3alE
PBS 2024 Election Night - Highlights
https://youtu.be/rWhXlVl4Uoc
CNN 2024 Election Night - Highlights
https://youtu.be/nT5WZ0b4chU
NBC 2024 Election Night - Highlights
https://youtu.be/EcjHD-7xmCQ
CBS 2024 Election Night - Highlights
https://youtu.be/5fihvvRXBB0