MSNBC host Alex Wagner lamented on Monday that the Democratic Celebration and the media missed a “cataclysmic moment” within the 2024 election with regard to what voters actually cared about and detailed how she could be spending President-elect Donald Trump’s first 100 days in workplace.
“I think one of the feelings we have all had after the end of this election is that we kind of have missed this cataclysmic moment, in the media, to some degree, and certainly in the Democratic Party,” Wagner stated.
Wagner, who took over MSNBC host Rachel Maddow’s primetime slot 4 nights per week on the community, will probably be hitting the highway to speak to voters and extra all through Trump’s first 100 days. Maddow, who beforehand bumped all the way down to solely internet hosting her present one evening per week on MSNBC, will probably be taking again the 9PM present for the primary few months of the Trump presidency.
“I think it’s essential that we get out there and show the country a 360-degree view of what is happening and how people are being affected on a visceral and personal level. Too much of this is unfolding in the abstract,” she stated.
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MSNBC’s Alex Wagner sat down with late evening host Seth Meyers to debate what she’ll be protecting within the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. (Screenshot/SethMeyers)
“We’re going to be talking to everybody who is involved in the decision-making, affected by the decision-making, and lured in by the promises,” Wagner stated, noting that she additionally spoke to voters forward of the election in key swing states. “And I knew Democrats had a problem when they started referring to January 6th as February 6th. I thought, ‘You know what? The messaging isn’t working around that one.’”
“Right now, I think the question is, what does it mean to have Trump as a president beyond just the rhetoric? Whose lives are being affected? You want to set up mass deportation camps? We’re going to talk to the people who’re getting rounded up. You want to talk about pardoning January 6th rioters, we’re going to talk to the inmates once they’re freed. You want to talk about the Trump Administration, and who’s running it, and who’s powerful and how they do it? We’re going to go inside Washington, D.C., and bring that to you,” Wagner stated, describing her plans for when Maddow takes again her time slot.
Wagner spoke to Latino and Black voters forward of the election in Philadelphia, and was stunned by their help for Trump’s name for “mass deportations.”
Wagner and Maddow will return to their present schedule, with Maddow internet hosting the slot on Monday nights and Wagner internet hosting the remainder of the week, on April 30, in keeping with the AP.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow speaks throughout her present on March 25, 2024. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
Wagner notably claimed whereas protecting the Republican Nationwide Conference that Trump’s choose for vice chairman, JD Vance, dropped “Easter eggs of White nationalism” by saying throughout his RNC speech that he needed to be buried in his household’s plot in Kentucky.
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“I just think the construction of this notion reveals a lot about someone who fundamentally believes in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity, and it’s couched in a sort of halcyon, you know, revisitation of his roots, but it is actually really revealing about what he thinks matters and who America is, and that America is a place for people with his shared Western background,” Wagner stated in July.
