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MSNBC host Alex Wagner lamented Monday that Democrats and media Missed the “catastrophic moment” that voters really care about in the 2024 election and detailed how she will spend President-elect Donald Trump’s 100 days 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 as MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who airs four nights a week in prime time on the network, will speak to voters and more during Trump’s first 100 days in office. 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 explain.
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MSNBC’s Alex Wagner sits 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/Seth Meyers)
“We’re going to talk to everyone who was involved in the decision, affected by the decision and attracted by the commitment,” Wagner said, noting that she also had key conversations with voters before the election. Swing states. “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 just 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 pardoning on January 6 The rioters, once they’re released, we’re going to talk to them about the Trump administration and who’s running it. Who has the power and how do they do it? We’re going to go into Washington, D.C. and bring it to you, ” Wagner said as she described her plans for Maddow to take back her time slot.
Wagner addressed Latino and Black voters ahead of Philadelphia election and said Surprised by their support Trump calls 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.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow speaks on the March 25, 2024 show. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
Wagner specifically claimed Amid coverage of the Republican National Convention, Trump’s pick for vice president J.D. Vance dropped a “white nationalist Easter egg” by saying during a speech at the RNC that he wanted to be buried on his family’s land in Kentucky. .
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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 expresses 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.
