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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

The writing is on the wall: Trump lashes out in desperation as support drains away

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Versant

4.4974 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki looks at the political signs, from special elections to fundraising totals, that Donald Trump's political favor is fading fast and he has buried himself in messes he doesn't know how to fix.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I absolutely love getting to start the show by telling you that it's election night.

0:04.4

Look, there is so much going on right now.

0:06.9

And we're going to talk about a lot of it.

0:08.2

I mean, we have a president who is becoming increasingly unhinged and untethered from reality.

0:14.8

His policies and his war with Iran are making things harder for so many people across this country. And he just, honestly, he takes

0:23.4

up so much of the oxygen every single day, doing absolutely insane things that we need to break down.

0:29.9

We need to talk about because he's the president of the United States currently. But on election

0:34.8

nights, on a night like tonight, the voters get to have their say. And they get to

0:40.2

take back some of that oxygen. And on just about every election night in recent memory, the voters

0:45.5

have sent him and his party, I should say, a very clear message. Today voters went to the polls

0:52.2

in New Jersey to decide who will fill the House seat

0:55.0

vacated by now Governor Mikey Cheryl. Poe's closed just one hour ago, and it only took a few

1:00.5

minutes after the polls closed for the Associated Press to project the Democratic candidate,

1:05.3

Ana Lillia Mejia, has won that race. The person that Chris just spoke with, I'm going to speak

1:10.2

with at the end of this show, really an interesting candidate now, a congresswoman elect. Now, Kamala Harris,

1:16.6

just to put this in perspective, she won the district by nine points in 2024. And as you can see,

1:20.6

the Democratic candidate is outperforming that margin right now by a lot. There's more results that are

1:26.5

still going to come in. We're going to be

1:27.8

watching all of it. And while this election is happening in a Democratic district, it's not a flip

1:33.4

from Republican to Democrat, the Democratic candidate in this race, as Chris was just saying,

1:38.1

is considered, is to be far more progressive than anyone who has previously held this particular

1:44.0

seat.

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