CNN Worries: Trump’s ‘Simple Message’ of Reopening Might Resonate

Scott Whitlock | May 19, 2020
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[See NewsBusters for more.] The journalists at CNN on Tuesday conducted a Democratic strategy session as hosts Alisyn Camerota, John Berman and liberal commentator Bakari Sellers worried that Donald Trump’s “simple message” on reopening the country might actually resonate with people. Camerota fretted, “Bakari, as you know, President Trump also doesn't really deal in details and so one of the things that he's good at is sort of the simple message, the slogan.” She described this message as “Everybody wants to go back to work. Let’s reopen.” The idea this might work was obviously concerning as Camerota wondered, “Republicans, Democrats, everybody wants their old normal. So is he winning in that way of making it seem simple and that he's on the side of getting life back to normal?”