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I'm Adam Johnson.

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needed, and today, Adam,

we are going to discuss

the media's post-mortem

Wednesday morning

quarterbacking of the presidential election that on November 5th,

2024 saw the re-election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States.

And perhaps expectedly, although frustratingly, we have seen the media in their post-mortem

analysis of what went wrong with the Kamala Harris campaign and why we are here as a country,

have done everything to offset the blame from, say, themselves or the consultancy class that runs the Democratic Party

national campaigns, certainly national campaigns, in addition to statewide races. But certainly at the

federal level, everyone is blamed except for, say, the people in charge of the campaigns, or the

candidate herself, or the administration that she is a part of.

And instead, there is an analysis of, if I can do a little bit of Kurt Engel here, the three

eyes, inflation, immigration, and identity.

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