MSNBC has been ridiculed for insisting former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris were still in a ‘dead heat’ as the former president secured 230 electoral votes.
A panel of commentators and analysts were discussing the election results Tuesday night, when former White House Communications Director Nicole Wallace made the absurd claim.
‘I mean, I guess a slice of good news is that the polls have accurately captured this dead heat,’ she said.
The liberal commentator had suggested Harris still had a path to victory through the so-called ‘blue wall’ states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin – despite Trump’s lead.
‘It was always going to be a blue wall night, and I think, I mean, I tried to speak a little bit to some of these fantasies about a landslide victory that would eradicate the threat of something drawn out.’
Former White House Communications Director Nicole Wallace claimed on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris were still in a ‘dead heat’ even though Trump had secured 230 electoral votes
She went on to quote former US Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld by saying, ‘You go to the polls with the country that we have, and the country that we have lives in two totally separate ecosystems.
‘Whatever happens, we really have to understand the information consumption that young men have and why they think the economy will be better under Donald Trump, when it never was,’ Wallace said of a large voting bloc for the former president.
‘I think that waiting on these blue wall states to come in because they’re so close, because households are divided, right? There could be a yard sign in the house that doesn’t represent everyone in the house will vote in either direction, and so I think it’s going to be a long night,’ the liberal news host said.
Many online soon seized on her comments, with one X user responding: ‘Dead heat? It’s a blowout.’
Colin J Smothers, the executive director of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, noted that the left-leaning network declared the presidential race a dead heat ‘when the NYTimes needle is reading 88 percent Donald Trump.’
A third X user said he was ‘watching MSNBC, which I never do, and [am] just completely blown away by the sheer idiocy of these show hosts.
Many online seized on Wallace’s comments as Trump had a clear lead ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris
‘Are we really to believe that our Dem betters get their news from these low IQ nitwits,’ he asked. ‘They’re still calling it a “dead heat.”‘
Meanwhile, yet another social media user suggested: ‘If you want to know what media bias looks like… there it is.’
Trump won the critical swing state of North Carolina and its 16 Electoral College votes in a pivotal moment in the election late Tuesday night.
The Tar Heel state was a key target for both campaigns and was the scene of frenzied campaigning, with Trump making stops there in each of the last three days of the race.
In a major boost to the Republican it was the first of the seven swing states, that will ultimately determine the winner, to be decided.
He has also won in Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Ohio, Louisiana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Utah, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas – earning 230 electoral votes by midnight Wednesday.
Trump won the critical swing state of North Carolina and its 16 Electoral College votes in a pivotal moment in the election late Tuesday night
Harris’ campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told staff in a memo that, after losing North Carolina, the ‘blue wall’ northern industrial states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were now the Democrat ‘s ‘clearest path’ to victory.
Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has picked up votes in Vermont, Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, Illinois, New Jersey, Colorado, Washington D.C., California, Maine, Virginia, New Mexico, Oregon – earning 210 electoral votes.
Harris’ campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told staff in a memo that, after losing North Carolina, the ‘blue wall’ northern industrial states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were now the Democrat‘s ‘clearest path’ to victory.
She suggested the race was ‘not going to come into focus until the early morning hours.’