On CNN’s “State of the Union”, commentator Jamal Simmons got utterly clowned by Scott Jennings, who threw cold water all over the Harris hype that has overtaken the airwaves since President Joe Biden endorsed her to be his successor practically immediately upon withdrawing from the campaign.
WATCH as Jennings blows Simmons’ narrative up in a matter of seconds:
CNN STATE OF THE UNION
7/28/24
9:43 AM
JAKE TAPPER: Where are we right now?
JAMAL SIMMONS: Yes.
TAPPER:100 days.
SIMMONS: 100 days out. Listen, the campaign has got a lot to do.
TAPPER: She says she's the underdog. Is she?
SIMMONS: I do- of course, he's the underdog. First of all, she's- Donald Trump is still polling a couple of points ahead of her and in most polls is in the 48, 49 range. She's in the 47, 48 range. The campaign is literally building. Someone said this earlier. They're still using Joe Biden dot com email addresses over there, right? They're still figuring out how to get the talking points with the right language. So they've got, like, a lot of work to do to make this whole thing come together. But the plane’s already in the air and the good news is that the people are sort of powering this thing. So you see, you know, 44,000 black women come out and then you see 170,000, almost, white women come out on another phone call and then you see African-American men and Latino- like, this thing is growing in a kind of organic way that I don't think many of us who were watching it expected that kind of energy.
SCOTT JENNINGS: They're still using Joe Biden dot com emails because there's still using Joe Biden dot com policies over there. 65% of the American people disapprove of these policies. She's never going to be able to shake off Joe Biden dot com whether they have the emails or not, and the only thing you're celebrating this week is some amount of base consolidation. But if you look at where Donald Trump is today versus where he was in 2020: underdog? Yeah, that’s one way to look at it.
As is the case in the immediate aftermath of a fireworks show, we are still in that hazy afterglow phase wherein everyone oohs and aahs over the show, before the smoke clears. Such is the case of a Regime Media and related commentariat, bent on celebrating and protecting its new figurehead before last week’s smoke has fully cleared.
Jennings cut through the noise this time. But expect much more nonsense, and smoke, in the days and weeks ahead.
