MSNBC host Alex Wagner complained Monday that the Democratic Party and the media missed a “disastrous moment” in the 2024 election regarding what voters really cared about and described how she would spend the first 100 days of her term as President-elect Donald Trump.
“I think one of the feelings we’ve all had after the end of this election is that we’ve kind of missed this cataclysmic moment, in the media, to some extent, and certainly in the Democratic Party,” Wagner said .
Wagner, who took over as host of MSNBC Rachel Maddow will appear on the network four nights a week in primetime 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 take back the 9 p.m. show for the first few months of Trump’s presidency.
“I think it is essential that we come out and show the country a 360-degree view of what is happening and how people are being affected on a visceral and personal level. Too much of this unfolds 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’ll 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 influenced by the decision-making and who is lured by the promises,” Wagner said, noting that she also spoke to voters on key issues ahead of the election. swing states. “And I knew the Democrats had a problem when they called January 6 February 6. I thought, ‘You know what? The messaging doesn’t work around that.'”
“Right now, I think the question is: What does it mean to have Trump as president, beyond just the rhetoric? Whose lives are affected by this? Do you want to set up mass deportation camps? We’re going to talk to the people who If you want to talk about forgiving the January 6 rioters, we’re going to talk to the prisoners once they’re released who is powerful and how do they do that? We’re going to go into Washington DC and bring that to you,” Wagner said, describing her plans for when Maddow takes back her time slot.
Wagner spoke to Latino and black voters in Philadelphia ahead of the election, and he did just that surprised by their support for Trump’s call for ‘mass deportations’.
Wagner and Maddow will return to their current schedule, with Maddow hosting on Monday nights and Wagner the rest of the week on April 30, according to the AP.
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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow speaks during her show on March 25, 2024. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
Wagner specifically claimed while at the Republican National Convention that Trump’s vice presidential pick, J.D. 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 think the construction of this idea reveals a lot about someone who fundamentally believes in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity, and it’s embedded in a kind of halcyon, you know, revision of his roots, but it’s actually very revealing about what he thinks it matters and who America is, and that America is a place for people with his shared Western background,” Wagner said in July.
