CNN anchor Jake Tapper expressed shock on Wednesday morning after Vice President Kamala Harris failed to outperform President Joe Biden’s 2020 record in a single state.
After Tapper asked CNN chief national correspondent John King whether there were any places Harris overperformed Biden in 2020, King responded, “You asked are there any places that the vice president is overperforming Joe Biden in 2020, so we can show you that as well. We just bring that out here. Harris overperforming 2020.”
King then switched to a slide that showed Harris failing to outperform Biden in a single state by 3% or more.
“Holy smokes!” reacted Tapper. “Literally nothing?”
“Literally nothing,” replied King.
After Tapper questioned, “Literally not one county?” King pointed out that the slide showed states, not counties, before switching to another slide, which showed Harris outperforming Biden by 3% or more in a mere 58 counties.
“So in counties, in 58 counties,” explained King. “We just showed Donald Trump was over a thousand counties of the 4,600 counties and townships across America.”
He continued, “There might be more out here on the West Coast, possibly one or two more as they finish the count here, but in the states that matter – again, I just showed you all those Trump counties – in one county in battleground Pennsylvania, she’s outperforming President Biden by 3% or more.”
Harris was defeated by Trump in the early hours of Wednesday morning, according to several projections, with the former president also winning the popular vote.
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