Former Obama advisers Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Tommy Bittar and Jon Lovett appeared shocked Wednesday as they analyzed President-elect Donald Trump’s victory from election night on their podcast. .

Shortly after Fox News announced late Tuesday night that Trump had won Pennsylvania, media outlets began reporting the presidential race between Trump and his vice president as favoring the Republican candidate. On “Pod Save America,” four Democratic hosts look at the exit poll results, and as of Wednesday night, Trump is projected to win both the electoral and popular vote. It became clear that he was in the lead.

“I’ve got my support animal sitting on my lap. Leo’s here too. Let’s get to work,” Favreau said. “Donald Trump won.”

“Trump’s victory was very broad-based. He improved his 2020 performance in nearly every county in every demographic,” Favreau added. “That means the vast majority of this country, of all ages, races, genders, religions, and political persuasions, either like Donald Trump, like his policies, or just don’t understand him and his policies. For whatever reason, they chose to keep Donald Trump for four more years. Either they didn’t judge the risk enough, or they voted for him based on bad or incomplete information. ”

Favreau went on to point out how “incumbent leaders around the world continue to lose” since the pandemic and asked Pfeiffer to weigh in on the results.

“The polls have been telling us this for years: Three-quarters of voters think this country is on the wrong path,” Pfeiffer said.

“…there will be a lot of second-guessing and nit-picking, but we recognize the political environment in which we operate and the political changes in this country over the past four years. We have to,” Pfeiffer continued. “And because of the changes that have been happening since 2016, we were able to win in 2020 by a very small margin, but we’ve been going in this direction for a while and it was really brutal last year. I’m back in the form of a night. “

Vitol also weighed in to highlight how the party needs to do some “heart searching” to win in the next cycle, adding that the current exit polls as data is still trickling in. pointed out that the results were “uneven.” (Related article: “I don’t know how to deal with this”: Harris supporters post video crying after Trump’s victory)

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“One of the things I wanted to say to you is just that. I really want to know what happened, because I want to do some personal soul searching. And , the party wants to do some soul searching to fix this and make it better next time,” Vitor said. “But I think we need to tell everyone that while we’re going to do our best to organize the information that’s available, it’s the exit polls that are uneven at best, and it’s county-by-county data. ”

Vitol continued that Harris had limited time to “introduce herself to this country” compared to the Trump campaign. Lovett also said that while he believes the allegations against Trump are true, he believes Democrats need to find a way to understand why millions of Americans voted for the former president. added.

“So what I was thinking this morning is that the lawsuit we brought against Donald Trump was true. The truth is the truth,” Lovett said.

“What I think we need to understand now is that there are millions of people who agree with our concerns about Donald Trump and agree that he’s a terrible character and a terrible leader. “It means that millions of Americans have decided that their concerns and anger about the economy are their problem. The work at this facility was reason enough to take that opportunity,” Lovett added. There could be many reasons for that. There will be a lot to unravel as to why that happened. ”

Exit polling data as of Wednesday evening showed Trump gaining votes among key Democratic voters, including Hispanics and black men. Harris won 52% of Hispanic voters nationally, while Trump won 46% overall and 55% of Hispanic male voters specifically, with a lower increase among Hispanics overall compared to 2020 exit poll data. It increased by 14 points and 19 points among Hispanic men. According to to Reuters. In addition, Trump gained 21% support among Black male voters, up two points from 2020, compared to Harris’ 71%, the paper reported.

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