Kamala Harris' poor performance illustrated by the reaction of a CNN presenter

UNITED STATES – Disgusting failure. While Donald Trump claimed his victory in the American presidential election this Wednesday, November 6, even before the scores were made official, particularly after having won a large majority of states, including three of the seven swing statesit was a cold shower for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, who aspired to become the first president of the United States.

Worse, Joe Biden's vice-president failed to significantly improve the Democrats' score in a single state. And on the American continuous news channel CNN, presenter Jake Tapper let slip his surprise at this poor performance.

Red wave in hundreds of counties

As you can hear in the video belowJake Tapper interviewed CNN's popular maps pundit John King, asking if there were any places where Kamala Harris did better than Joe Biden four years earlier.

The map without the slightest spot of blue which was displayed on the screen aroused astonishment in the presenter, who blurted out live: “Damn good evening!” Literally nothing? “. “Nothing at all”replied John King, moving a window to look at the results in urban areas on the East Coast and hoping to find a trace of a score improved by three points by Kamala Harris. White cabbage. “Not a single county? », then repeated Jake Tapper, stunned.

Correspondent John King, however, corrected it, explaining: “The map showed states, not counties.” Concretely, Kamala Harris therefore failed to surpass Joe Biden's score in 2020 by 3% or more in a single state, details the American online newspaper specializing in media coverage of political affairs mediaite. And when it comes to counties, the smallest scale of constituencies in the United States, Kamala Harris simply did better than the Democratic president in 58 of them. A rather ridiculous record compared to that of Trump, who improved his score by at least three points in more than a thousand counties, a sign of the effectiveness of his campaign.

John King continued: “He could have other [comtés remportés par Harris] on the West Coast, maybe one or two more as they finish counting. »

Jake Tapper was already stunned to learn that the results in Georgia were favorable to Donald Trump, says the Daily Mail. « WOW ! »he said when David Chalian, the political director of CNN, explained to him that Donald Trump was winning the state with 54% of the votes.

Kamala Harris hoped to become the first woman elected president, facing an opponent who never admitted defeat in 2020. The latest polls placed her neck and neck with Trump, even with a slight lead over her Republican rival.

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