'Never-Trumpers,' liberal media were living in 'blue bubble' before Trump's victory, says veteran journalist

Veteran governmental expert and best-selling writer Mark Halperin told "The Brian Kilmeade Show" that helium warned liberals and "Never Trump" Republicans that Trump was apt to decision VP Kamala Harris. Halperin reacted to the mainstream media, including MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezezinski, preparing to screen a 2nd Trump presidency. 

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MARK HALPERIN: I truly pleaded with everyone I knew who was a Never Trumper, idiosyncratic with Trump Derangement Syndrome oregon ace opposed to Donald Trump. I said he's going to get 47% of the ballot and helium mightiness get 50. But the quality betwixt 47 and 50 is, you know, respective cardinal Americans. You person to respect the information that tens of millions of radical are going to ballot for him. And you person to beryllium prepared for that. And immoderate radical listened to me, but astir of them didn't. There's thing astir Donald Trump that sets them off. Now, helium brings a batch of it connected himself done his behavior, done his rhetoric, done his conduct. But it goes beyond that. And, of course, it's peculiarly exacerbated by what I telephone the ascendant media, which creates this phantasy satellite of Joe Biden doesn't person an acuity problem. Kamala Harris should beryllium fixed the information without immoderate question. The unfastened borderline is not an contented that radical truly attraction about. All these things, the prosecutions of Donald Trump, the attempts to support him disconnected the ballot. The attempts to support Bobby Kennedy off the ballot. All of these things, the nonaccomplishment of the president and the vice president to explicit outrage astatine the execution of American citizens by radical successful the state illegally. All these things adhd up to a bluish bubble that they conscionable can't see. 

President-elect Donald Trump gestures aft speaking during an America First Policy Institute gala astatine his Mar-a-Lago estate, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, successful Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

I spot this each the time. I'll accidental to a Trump supporter, wherefore does the near not similar Donald Trump? And they tin explicate it precise easily. … And immoderate of them consciousness the aforesaid way, but they inactive deliberation he'd beryllium a amended president than Kamala Harris. But astir radical connected the left, if you say, wherefore bash radical similar Donald Trump? They're paralyzed. They can't reply the question. And the litany you and I conscionable did unneurotic is simply a large portion of the explanation, not the full thing, but it's a large portion of it. And they just, for immoderate reason, can't admit that tens of millions of their chap countrymen and women consciousness otherwise than they do. 

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The MSNBC greeting amusement hosts triggered outrage wrong the wide web aft revealing to their assemblage that they had traveled to Mar-a-Lago to speech with President-elect Trump. 

"Cowardice," 1 MSNBC worker reacted to Fox News Digital. "Doing precisely what [anti-Trump historian] Tim Snyder warns connected our aerial not to do: obey successful advance. It’s disgusting but frankly unsurprising."

The root said MSNBC's fertile and record are present "largely disdainful" of the network's greeting stars, saying it "feels similar they are conscionable opportunistic."

Others person taken to societal media to dependable their objections. MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin called it "disgusting" connected Bluesky, the X-like societal media tract increasing successful popularity with progressives. MSNBC big Katie Phang offered an indirect swipe, posting connected X, "Normalizing Trump is simply a atrocious idea. Period."

Fox News' Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.