CNN host Michael Smerconish admitted that the mainstream media’s “constant browbeating” of conservatives backfired and contributed to President-elect Trump’s big win last week.
During an interview with Mediaite.com editor Aidan McLaughlin on the “Press Club” podcast, the CNN pundit said that voters rebelled against the media’s constant demonization of people who support the president-elect.
“It’s like a parenting lesson. The more that you tell people what they can’t do, what’s intolerable, you must not do this, you should not do this, the more they’re going to rebel,” he said.
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McLaughlin asked Smerconish what he believed the big takeaway from the 2024 presidential election was. The CNN host began by admitting, “I’ve had to think a lot about it,” and declared that the way the media was overbearing about Trump as a threat to the country was “at the top of my …