MSNBC’s Alex Wagner says the media missed a ‘cataclysmic moment’ in the 2024 election.
MSNBC host Alex Wagner complained Monday that the Democratic Party and to the media she missed the “cataclysmic moment” in the 2024 election regarding what voters really care about and detailed how she would spend President-elect Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.
“I think one of the feelings we all had after this election was over is that we kind of missed this cataclysmic moment, in the media, to some extent, and certainly in the Democratic Party,” Wagner said.
Wagner, who took over the MSNBC host On Rachel Maddow’s primetime show four nights a week on the network, she’ll hit the road to talk to voters and more during Trump’s first 100 days. Maddow, who previously hosted her show just one night a week on MSNBC, will bring the show back to 9pm in the first few months of Trump’s presidency.
“I think it’s critical that we get out there and show the country a 360-degree view of what’s going on and how people are being affected on a visceral and personal level. Too much is going on in the abstract,” she said.
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MSNBC’s Alex Wagner sat down with late night host Seth Meyers to discuss what she will be covering in the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. (Screenshot/SethMeyers)
“We’re going to talk to everyone who is involved in the decision-making, who is affected by the decisions and who was lured in by the promises,” Wagner said, noting that she also spoke to voters ahead of the election in the key swing state. “And I knew the Democrats had a problem when they started calling January 6th February 6th. I thought, ‘You know what? The message isn’t working around that.'”
“Right now, I think the question is what does it mean to have Trump as president beyond just rhetoric? Whose lives does it affect? You want to set up mass deportation camps? We’re going to talk to people who You want to talk about pardoning rebels on January 6th, we’re going to talk to prisoners after what they get released. You want to talk about the Trump administration, and who’s powerful and how they’re doing it? We’ll go to Washington, DC, and bring it to you,” Wagner said, describing her plans when Maddow again take your time.
Wagner spoke to Hispanic and black voters in the run-up to the Philadelphia election and was surprised by their support for Trump’s call for “mass deportations.”
Wagner and Maddow will return to their current schedule, with Maddow hosting the Monday night slot and Wagner hosting the rest of the week, April 30, according to the AP.
MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow speaks during her show on March 25, 2024. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
Wagner particularly claimed that covering the Republican National Convention that Trump’s VP pick, JD Vance, dropped “white nationalism easter eggs” by saying during his RNC speech that he wanted to be buried in his family’s plot in Kentucky.
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“I just think that the construction of this term reveals a lot about someone who fundamentally believes in the supremacy of whiteness and maleness, and it’s tamed into a kind of lightheartedness, you know, questioning his roots, but it really reveals what he thinks is important about who America is and that America is a place for people with his common Western ancestry,” Wagner said in July.
