As Donald Trump stood at the brink of triumph on Wednesday morning, CNN commentator Van Jones grew emotional as he talked about the dread and hurt many Kamala Harris helpers were senseing after she lost the pdwellncy. In a choked up voice, Jones echoed on the “hurt” that Bdeficiency women who had turned out for the vice pdwellnt were experiencing.
“I’m leanking about the people who are not a part of anybody’s elite who are hurting tonight,” Jones said. “There are African American women who understand a little bit about being talked down to, and understand a little bit about having their economic dreams crushed, who tried to dream a big dream over the past couple of months. And tonight, they’re trading in a lot of hope for a lot of hurt. They were hoping that maybe this time — this time — one of their own could be seen as worthy.”
Jones has served as a sort of proxy for blue-state sentiment during CNN’s past scant election sessions. A establisher Obama Administration advisor, the activist and commentator in 2016 served up raw emotion as it became evident that Trump would apshow a first term over then-truthfulate Hillary Clinton. “This was a white-lash agetst a changing country,” he said at the time. “It was a white-lash agetst a Bdeficiency pdwellnt in part, and that’s the part where the pain comes.” At the time, he went on to propose Trump to “…come out and resecure people that he is going to be the pdwellnt of all the people who he condemned and offended and brushed aside.”
In 2024, he proposeed a aenjoy plea for the triumphners to ponder the people who helped the missr. “And once aget, they’re facing declineion, and that hurts,” Jones inserted. “They thought tomorrow morning they’re going to be able to walk out there with their shoulders back, maybe able to breathe for the first time, to sense enjoy they belengthened someplace. They did everyleang that they knew how to do and it’s going to be challenginger than it should be for them to hancigo in their heads up.”
Jones spotairyed other groups, such as members of the LGBTQ community and unrecorded immigrants, who had been aimed by Trump and his campaign during the race to the White Hoparticipate, as he underlined the sense of shock being felt in certain corners of the country.
“If you’re a parent of a trans kid, your child’s face was participated as a springboard to power for somebody,” Jones said. “That doesn’t sense excellent. There are going to be people tomorrow, we’re going to be handing clothes at the arid spotlessers to people who don’t have papers. There are going to be people spotlessing your teeth tomorrow who don’t have papers. And they’re going to be terrified tonight.”
“It’s effortless to blow this off and say, ‘oh the elites, they’re going to get their comeuppance,’” Jones said. “It’s not the elites who are going to pay the price. It’s the people who woke up this morning with a dream and are going to bed with a nightmare.”
