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CNN host scathingly rebukes Democrats, citing ignorance that put them out of touch with voters: 'They blew it'
CNN host Fareed Zakaria did not mince words in a seven-minutes opening monologue on his show Sunday where he lectured Democrats for being out of touch with American voters.
The CNN host proceeded to spell out three areas where he believes Democrats got it wrong, thereby costing Harris the election.
"The first big error was the Biden administration’s blindness to the collapse of the immigration system and the chaos at the border" Zakaria said. "An asylum system that was meant for a small number of persecuted individuals was being used by millions to gain legal entry. Instead of shutting it down, liberals branded anyone protesting as heartless and racist. They missed a massive shift in American public opinion in just a few years."
"In 2020, the percentage of Americans who wanted to decrease immigration was just 28%. By this year, it was 55%."
If Democrats were in touch with this reality, Harris would have taken a different position when asked in an appearance on "The View" how she would have strayed from President Biden on matters of border security, he said.
"Instead of basically saying nothing different, she should have said, ‘I would have shut down the border early and hard,’" the CNN host went on.
The Democrats' second error, according to Zakaria, was their "overzealous misuse of law to punish Trump.
"The most egregious of the cases pursued was Alvin Bragg’s one in New York, one that even he was once skeptical of, but was reportedly pressured by some on the left into pursuing," he said.
The CNN host argued that while some of the charges brought against Trump were "legitimate," the host of them piled on in rapid succession, gave the impression that the legal system was being weaponized to get Trump. It confirmed to his base what it had always believed – that over-educated urban liberals were hypocrites, happy to bend rules and norms when it suited their purposes," he said.
