Staff Reports
In an amusing display of the left’s continued obsession with Trump, CNN contributor Ana Navarro made quite the splash during a recent discussion about the aftermath of the Trump-Harris debate. As the debate unfolded on ABC News, with moderators David Muis and Linsey Davis giving Trump much more of a “fact-checking” neurotic than Kamala Harris, Navarro took to social media to report her findings. Spoiler alert: they didn’t align with the reality the rest of America was witnessing.
Navarro delightedly announced that viewers were “laughing at” Trump, all based on her curated social media feed. This certainly raises the question of just who Navarro thinks constitutes “voters.” Despite her vehement claims, it seems that Olivia Nuzzi of New York Magazine had a different take on this. Nuzzi pointedly noted that Navarro’s perspective was skewed by her selective intake of information. Who could have guessed that a CNN contributor might be a tad bias-curious?
'That's Curated': CNN Guest Fires Back At Ana Navarro's Gloating About Trump Debate pic.twitter.com/6t4LuxJmUj
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As the post-debate chatter eloped through the internet, corporate media buzzed about Harris’s performance with a kind of enthusiasm usually reserved for blockbuster movie premieres. However, real voters, those funny folks outside the Manhattan bubble, have their own ideas. Reuters revealed that a solid 60% of panelists surveyed felt more inclined to lean toward Trump after the debate. Apparently, the rooftop bars brimming with laughter Navarro mentioned are a far cry from the living rooms of real swing voters who might not even know what a debate watch party looks like.
The so-called evidence that these “normal people” were snickering at Trump was dismissed by Nuzzi, who pointed out the absurdity of assuming that casual voters with a life outside of the political fray would even be tuning into these staged debates. While Navarro confidently imagined that memes mocking Trump were penetrating the minds of undecided voters, Nuzzi nailed the reality by suggesting that these voters were likely just more concerned with the latest soccer score than the latest political roast.
Despite Navarro’s insistence that swing voters were fully dialed into the online caricature of Trump, the numbers paint a different picture. Current polling shows Harris clinging to a mere 1.3% lead over Trump. When factoring in the backup dancers of the 2024 election, like Jill Stein, Chase Oliver, and Cornel West, that margin increases only slightly to 1.9%. So, while Navarro might be hearing echoes of laughter in her curated feed, the rest of the country may just be rolling their eyes and shaking their heads at the circus act that is leftist media commentary.
