CNN host says liberal media’s ‘constant browbeating’ about Trump is a top reason for his big win

CNN big Michael Smerconish admitted that the mainstream media’s "constant browbeating" of conservatives backfired and contributed to President-elect Trump’s large triumph past week.

During an interrogation with Mediaite.com exertion Aidan McLaughlin connected the "Press Club" podcast, the CNN pundit said that voters rebelled against the media’s changeless demonization of radical who enactment the president-elect.

"It’s similar a parenting lesson. The much that you archer radical what they can’t do, what’s intolerable, you indispensable not bash this, you should not bash this, the much they’re going to rebel," helium said. 

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CNN big Michael Smerconish said helium had a feeling that the media's "constant browbeating" of Trump supporters would backfire connected the Democratic Party successful the 2024 election.  (Slaven Vlasic / Stringer)

McLaughlin asked Smerconish what helium believed the large takeaway from the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination was. The CNN big began by admitting, "I’ve had to deliberation a batch astir it," and declared that the mode the media was overbearing astir Trump arsenic a menace to the state was "at the apical of my list."

He wondered that possibly if radical were near to marque their ain determination astir Trump without the media telling them however to vote, "they would person travel to their ain decision and rejected Donald Trump." 

"But I deliberation that the changeless browbeating and the operation of the media power and the 4 indictments, 1 conviction, and showing, you know, that god-awful gag from Madison Square Garden a week successful beforehand of the predetermination connected a loop — and I felt it, and I said it," helium told his Mediaite host.

Smerconish was referencing the arguable anti-Puerto Rican gag made by roast comic and Trump protagonist Tony Hinchcliffe during Trump’s New York City rally past month, successful which helium called the U.S. territory a "floating land of garbage."

The media characterized the gag arsenic a immense insult to the Puerto Rican assemblage coming from Trump’s run conscionable days earlier the election.

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends the America First Policy Institute Gala held astatine Mar-a-Lago connected November 14, 2024 successful Palm Beach, Florida. Trump has been announcing a fig of nominees to capable retired his upcoming administration. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) ( Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

President Biden would spell connected to marque the infinitesimal much arguable for the Democratic Party erstwhile helium appeared to telephone Trump supporters "garbage" successful effect to the joke, a soundbite which the Trump run utilized to its ain advantage.

Smerconish noted that helium hadn’t made immoderate predictions astir whether Trump would triumph successful the pb up to the election, but said the media’s relentless naysaying astir Trump gave him a feeling it could backfire.

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"I can’t beryllium here, Aiden, telling you, well, this is the mode I called the election, but I decidedly felt the imaginable for a boomerang effect, and I deliberation that came true. I truly do."

Back successful August, Smerconish said connected Friday that Trump held a important vantage implicit Vice President Harris connected policy. 

"So the question is 1 of the contention going to beryllium astir personality. If it is, helium loses," Smerconish said of Trump, adding that Trump, however, "probably wins" successful a conflict implicit argumentation with Harris. 

Fellow wide pundit, HBO big Bill Maher precocious gave the reason helium believes Vice President Kamala Harris mislaid to Trump, namely that the Democratic Party is excessively radical. "You deterioration ‘Queers for Palestine’ t-shirts and masks 2 years aft the pandemic ended. And you can't specify a woman. I mean ‘person who menstruates,'" helium said during Friday's occurrence of "Real Time with Bill Maher." 

He added, "You're the teachers' national acquisition enactment and you've turned schools and colleges into a joke. You conscionable mislaid a brainsick contention to an existent brainsick person."

– Fox News' Jeffrey Clark contributed to this report.

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