Van Jones: ‘These Polls Are Not to Be Trusted,’ Close Election Hurts

Nicholas Fondacaro | November 4, 2020
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It wouldn’t be Election Night in America without some emotional ranting from CNN political commentator Van Jones. In 2016, he infamously declared that President Trump won the elections because of “white-lash” to President Obama. Now, in 2020, he was lashing out at pollsters for getting Democratic voters’ hopes up with the rosy predictions, only to burn them with a closer than expected election.

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Jones began his emotional sermon by declaring that “a lot of Democrats are hurt tonight.”

“There's a moral victory and there's a political victory. They're not the same thing,” he told the heavily liberal panel in a very somber tone. He was upset that there was a greater “repudiation” of Trump and that the race was so close.

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