In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, as they were waiting for the election workers in the so-called “blue wall” to tell them what they already knew, CNN’s Van Jones blamed sexism and racism for why Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President-elect Trump.

“I am thinking about the people who are not a part of anybody's elite, who are hurting tonight,” he bloviated.

 

 

Speaking as though he was delivering a sermon, Jones opined about how this election supposedly told black women that America rejected them, how they hoped Harris would essentially liberate them, and lamented how their hard work didn’t pay off:

There are African-American women who know a little bit about being talked down to. They know a little bit about having their economic dreams crushed. Who tried to dream a big dream over the past couple of months. And tonight, they’re trading in a lot of hope for a lot of hurt. And they were hoping that maybe this time, this time, one of their own could be seen as worthy. And, once again, they are facing rejection and that hurts.

They thought tomorrow morning they are going to walk out with their shoulders back a little bit. Maybe be able to breathe for the first time and feel like they belong someplace. They did everything they knew how to do. And it’s going to be harder than it should be tomorrow for them to hold their heads up.

He went on to warn that, “they're not the only people who are hurting tonight.”

“If you are a parent of a trans kid, your child's face was used as a springboard to power for somebody. That doesn't feel good,” he said. “There are going to be people tomorrow who are going to be handing clothes at the dryers to people who don't have papers. There are people who are going to be cleaning your teeth tomorrow who don't have papers. And they are terrified tonight.”

He proceeded to whine: “It’s people who woke up this morning with a dream and are going to bed with a nightmare. And those people deserve to be respected and held and talked to, those are the people who are going to pay the price for whatever Donald Trump decided to do.”

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

CNN’s Election Night in America
November 6, 2024
12:53:18 a.m. Eastern

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VAN JONES: I am thinking about the people who are not a part of anybody's elite, who are hurting tonight.

There are African-American women who know a little bit about being talked down to. They know a little bit about having their economic dreams crushed. Who tried to dream a big dream over the past couple of months. And tonight, they’re trading in a lot of hope for a lot of hurt. And they were hoping that maybe this time, this time, one of their own could be seen as worthy. And, once again, they are facing rejection and that hurts.

They thought tomorrow morning they are going to walk out with their shoulders back a little bit. Maybe be able to breathe for the first time and feel like they belong someplace. They did everything they knew how to do. And it’s going to be harder than it should be tomorrow for them to hold their heads up.

And they're not the only people who are hurting tonight. If you are a parent of a trans kid, your child's face was used as a springboard to power for somebody. That doesn't feel good. There are going to be people tomorrow who are going to be handing clothes at the dryers to people who don't have papers. There are people who are going to be cleaning your teeth tomorrow who don't have papers. And they are terrified tonight.

And so, it’s easy to blow this off, “Oh, look at the elites, they’re going get their comeuppance?!” It’s not the elites who are going to pay the price. It’s people who woke up this morning with a dream and are going to bed with a nightmare. And those people deserve to be respected and held and talked to, those are the people who are going to pay the price for whatever Donald Trump decided to do.

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