Leftist media outlets are wondering what went wrong Tuesday night. How could President-elect Donald Trump — a man labeled a fascist and the second coming of Adolf Hitler — win both the popular vote and electoral college?
The answer is simple: The establishment media are out of touch. If they — MSNBC, CNN, and ABC to name a few — realized the irrelevancy they have with regular Americans, perhaps they wouldn’t have been so shocked Tuesday night.
In the case of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Axios CEO Jim VandeHei gave that panel of hosts of reminder of how little sway they possess on Friday.
Axios’ @JimVandeHei: “All of us have to come to grips, the legacy media is just not as important as it thinks it is … It’s a relatively small group of people who rely on us for their information … So if you just look empirically at the numbers, Joe Rogan is more important… pic.twitter.com/HqE4ckkFGE
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 8, 2024
When host Willie Geist asked, “How do Democrats, and frankly how does legacy media, need to change the way it thinks about getting information?”
Geist admitted in his questioning that the average Trump voter wasn’t his audience or that of his colleagues.
He then posed the question, “How do Democrats need to change the way they communicate to voters?”
“Legacy media is just not as important as it thinks it is,” VandeHei admitted.
In a remark that likely had MSNBC writhing in agony, he told Geist, “Joe Rogan’s more important than any of us.”
That remark is met with a dramatic sign of disapproval from someone on the pane,l indicating they still didn’t understand VandeHei’s perspective.