Chris Hayes Says Trump’s Win Is a ‘Rejection of the Status Quo’ — Even for Kamala Harris Voters | Video

November 6, 2024 @ 8:00 PM

Donald Trump’s victory on Election Day was “a rejection of a status quo that big majorities did not like” Chris Hayes said Wednesday night. Those majorities included people who voted for Kamala Harris, he added.

“Now the thing about this is Trump and Republicans have an interest, a vested interest, in interpreting this as a mandate for all of their worst governing impulses, all the Stephen Miller-style Project 2025 dark fantasies of smashing the administrative state,” Hayes explained. But, he continued, “those ideas were never popular.”

In fact, many of the more extreme Project 2025 ideas polled badly and “Trump tried to distance himself every chance he had from them, because they polled so terribly.”

“When you wrote down what they wanted to do, people didn’t like it. That was not the source of this victory. You can see it all over America and last night’s results,” Hayes said before he cited North Carolina’s results. The state elected Trump for president but Democrats for every other open post. Elsewhere in the United States, voters in Arizona, Missouri, and Montana each added the right to abortion to their state constitutions.

“Voters in deep red, Missouri and Alaska also approved raises in the minimum wage,” he continued. “They joined Nebraska in mandating paid sick leave to workers. Just to add to all that, New Jersey elected its first Asian American senator. Maryland elected its first Black and female US senator — so did Delaware. The US will have two Black female senators for the very first time in its history.”

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