MSNBC’s Alex Wagner says media missed ‘catastrophic moment’ in 2024 election

MSNBC host Alex Wagner lamented Monday that Democrats and the media missed a “catastrophic moment” in the 2024 election that voters really care about, detailing how she will survive President-elect Donald Trump Donald Trump’s 100th day in office.

“I think one of the feelings we all have after this election is that we’ve kind of missed this catastrophic moment, in the media and to some extent, certainly in the Democratic Party,” Wagner said. .

Wagner takes over the four-night-a-week primetime show from MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who will spend her first 100 days in office talking to voters and more. Maddow had previously decided to host just one night a week on MSNBC, but she will return to hosting the 9 p.m. show during the first months of Trump’s presidency.

“I think we have to go out and give the country a 360-degree view of what’s going on and how people are affected on a visceral and personal level. So much of it unfolds in the abstract,” she said.

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“We will talk to everyone who was involved in the decision, affected by the decision and attracted by the promise,” Wagner said, noting that she also had key conversations with voters before the election. “When Democrats started referring to January 6th as February 6th, I knew they had a problem. I thought, ‘You know what? The messaging around this issue isn’t working.'”

“Now, I think the question is, what does having a Trump presidency mean beyond rhetoric? Whose lives are affected? Do you want to create mass deportation camps? We’re going to talk to those who you want to talk about amnesty for the January 6th riots “We’re going to talk to them about the Trump administration once they’re released, who’s running it, who has the power and how,” she said, describing her plan for Maddow to take back time.

Wagner spoke with Latino and black voters in Philadelphia before the election and was surprised by their support for Trump’s call for “mass deportations.”

Wagner and Maddow will resume their current schedules, with Maddow hosting the show on Monday night and Wagner hosting the rest of the week on April 30, according to the Associated Press.

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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow speaks on the March 25, 2024 show. (Screenshot/MSNBC)

In his coverage of the Republican National Convention, Wagner specifically claimed that Vance, Trump’s choice for vice president, threw away “the Easter message of white nationalism” when he said in a speech at the RNC that he wanted to be buried on his family’s land in Kentucky. Easter eggs”.

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“I just think the construction of this concept reveals a lot about a man who fundamentally believed in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity, and it expressed it in a quiet way, you know, revisiting his roots, but it actually really revealed what he believed was important about who America was, a place for people who shared his Western background,” Wagner said in July.