Longtime news broadcaster Katie Couric is among the many media figures who have been spending the past couple of weeks analyzing the 2024 presidential campaign and President Donald Trump’s decisive victory. During a recent segment of her “Next Question” podcast, Couric took aim at Kamala Harris’ abysmal attempts to answer media questions. She said the softball questions from interviewers and the irrelevant answers Harris provided combined to help secure Trump’s win. As Fox News reported: “I always find that people do better when they’re asked really challenging, pointed questions. I always felt that way about Hillary Clinton,” Couric said. “If you are giving them these almost weird, like, amorphous softballs, it’s really hard to kind of hone your message and be succinct and say what you really need to say.” “I also felt that, and again, I think [Harris] really did well in so many areas, but I was frustrated by her inability to really succinctly answer questions at times, Jen,” Couric continued. “Like, if she was asked about changing the Supreme Court at that CNN town hall, she had an opportunity to talk about ethics and what, you know, [Supreme Court Justices Samuel] Alito and Clarence Thomas were doing, and she answered, like, in one sentence, and then went on to something that had nothing to do with the question,” Couric said. “You know, people notice that, and it’s like, ‘Answer the g-dd–n question, please!’” Harris’ tendency to respond to questions with a serving of “word salad” became a prominent meme during the most recent election cycle: KAMALA: “When we talk about our children … we all believe that, when we talk about the children of the community, they are a children of the community.” Every time I hear her speak, I lose more brain cells… pic.twitter.com/EemsEkdbmg — Cillian (@CilComLFC) October 28, 2024 KAMALA “WORD SALAD” VIDEO DROPS Highlights of the most confusing comments by the presidential candidate… 00:10 Why Has Nothing Done in 4 Years? 00:20 “I’m Clearly a Woman” 00:30 “You Think You Just Fell Out of a Coconut Tree?!” 00:40 “Don’t Hear That… I eat NO for… pic.twitter.com/nAFI3yYqXy — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 28, 2024 Kamala’s word salad problem stems from laziness She just never cared enough to do her homework as VP According to her aides she prefers solitaire Lazy people don’t rise to the top in politics, but apparently it’s possible with DEI/DNC She’s dangerouspic.twitter.com/k1qJhPp6PS — Gummi (@gummibear737) July 28, 2024 In honor of Word Salad Kamala, I am going to share her compilation highlights of “what can be, unburdened by what has been” moments in time pic.twitter.com/i0nZ4EbmxF — KC (@KCPayTreeIt) January 15, 2024 While others in the media and/or Democratic Party have also placed much of the blame for Harris’ loss on the campaign itself, there have been plenty of other scapegoats named in recent days. According to The Independent: Some Democrats think swapping Joe Biden for Harris was their deadly mistake. Others have blamed Biden himself, saying he took far too long to drop out. Progressives point to the Biden administration’s stance on Israel and the Harris campaign’s attempts to appeal to moderates and anti-Trump Republicans. Maybe it’s not a single person, but the issues themselves; some analysts have argued that Americans resonated with Trump’s stances — however sometimes disturbing — on immigration, on the economy, on foreign wars. Here’s some additional coverage of the left’s ongoing blame game:

Kamala Harris might have had the backing of A-list Hollywood stars and deep-pocketed political donors, but President Donald Trump clearly had the support of the American people when he achieved an electoral and popular vote victory earlier this month. And in the days since the election, mainstream media sources have been analyzing Harris’ defeat in an effort to determine exactly what went wrong for the left. CNN’s Michael Smerconish has an idea, which he recently shared on the air. According to Fox News: “But I think that the constant browbeating and the combination of the media influence and the four indictments, one conviction, and showing, you know, that god-awful joke from Madison Square Garden a week in advance of the election on a loop — and I felt it, and I said it,” he told his Mediaite host. Smerconish was referencing the controversial anti-Puerto Rican joke made by roast comic and Trump supporter Tony Hinchcliffe during Trump’s New York City rally last month, in which he called the U.S. territory a “floating island of garbage.” The media characterized the joke as a huge insult to the Puerto Rican community coming from Trump’s campaign just days before the election. President Biden would go on to make the moment more controversial for the Democratic Party when he appeared to call Trump supporters “garbage” in response to the joke, a soundbite which the Trump campaign used to its own advantage. Smerconish noted that he hadn’t made any predictions about whether Trump would win in the lead up to the election, but said the media’s relentless naysaying about Trump gave him a feeling it could backfire. “I can’t sit here, Aiden, telling you, well, this is the way I called the election, but I definitely felt the potential for a boomerang effect, and I think that came true. I really do.” Back in August, Smerconish said on Friday that Trump held a significant advantage over Vice President Harris on policy. “So the question is one of the race going to be about personality. If it is, he loses,” Smerconish said of Trump, adding that Trump, however, “probably wins” in a battle over policy with Harris. The media’s obvious bias has been the topic of significant social media discussion throughout the election season: 2024 MEDIA COVERAGE SHOWS RECORD BIAS AGAINST TRUMP ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news gave 78% positive coverage to Kamala, while Trump received only 15% positive coverage—a 63-point gap. This marks the most unbalanced media coverage in recent history, surpassing the 58-point… pic.twitter.com/d7uHZw71iB — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 5, 2024 ERIC TRUMP: “The media has lost all credibility. He had a media that was against him every day. Joe and Mika are trashing my dad every morning. They used to spend weekend at Mar-a-Lago. Oprah, Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, we knew them all and they loved us…until my… pic.twitter.com/JnnVmBlvP5 — X Analyst (@topic_flow) November 17, 2024 BREAKING: President Trump is suing media outlets for $10 billion, accusing them of bias. He has filed lawsuits against the New York Times, CBS, and other organizations, alleging defamation and political prejudice. — Team Trump (@TrumpTeamNews) November 15, 2024 Other media figures, including comedian and HBO host Bill Maher, had their own theories about why Trump came out on top. According to the Daily Beast: “I got bad news for you, they don’t have a monopoly on stupid,” he said. “You wear Queers for Palestine T-shirts, and masks two years after the pandemic ended. And you can’t define ‘woman’—I mean, ‘person who menstruates.’ You’re the Teachers Union education party, and you’ve turned schools and colleges into a joke. You just lost a crazy contest to an actual crazy person.” Maher continued, “You love to speak truth to power, and we always should, but you have completely lost the ability to speak truth to bulls–t.” In his next attack on the Democrats, Maher claimed that the party‘s “wokeism” was the beginning of the end for Harris’ election odds. “The Democratic polling firm, Blueprint, told Democrats months ago that Black voters, a.k.a. their supposedly liberal base, were more likely to find the president too liberal than too conservative,” he said. “They also found that voters didn’t just want Harris to distance herself from Biden, they wanted her to distance herself from what they believe the entire Democratic Party has become—a Portlandia sketch.” Here’s a clip of Maher’s monologue:

Over 600,000 residents lost power in western Washington state after an enormous bomb cyclone ravaged the Pacific Northwest. Crews are working Wednesday morning to restore electricity for about 640,000 customers who lost power overnight. The vicious windstorm killed at least one individual when a tree fell at a homeless encampment. Reports stated the bomb cyclone produced heavy rainfall and wind gusts over 70 mph. A look at the bomb cyclone responsible for widespread power outages across the Pacific Northwest this morning. #CAwx #ORwx #WAwx pic.twitter.com/FY6OYOrfhS — MyRadar Weather (@MyRadarWX) November 20, 2024 From The Spokesman-Review: A rotating rapidly intensifying system of storms, known as a bomb cyclone, skirted the West Coast and churned about 300 miles west of the Olympic Peninsula. Its strength was expected to wane Wednesday, though a sequel system could move in Thursday or Friday, according to the National Weather Service. Over 400,000 people of those without power were Puget Sound Energy customers, outside the city of Seattle. Heavy snow, fallen trees and — on Interstate 90 near Snoqualmie Pass — a jackknifed semitruck blocked routes in the immediate aftermath of the storm. Some flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were also rerouted when the storm was near its peak. After peaking at 1 a.m., winds significantly dropped off by 4 a.m., according to the National Weather Service. All wind warnings and advisories have ended, the weather service said. Damage from fallen trees and downed wires was reported throughout the region. The easterly winds are in the opposite direction of usual high winds, making it easier to knock down trees, said weather service meteorologist Dana Felton. WATCH: This massive tree fell on top of a @KingCountyMetro bus on 35th Ave NE. The bus driver is okay but shaken up. There were no passengers on board. #bombcyclone @KING5Seattle pic.twitter.com/JgXVIEaNHr — Madison Wade (@madisoncwade) November 20, 2024 Bomb Cyclone Chaos in Bellevue! Trees crashing onto powerlines—residents left in the dark! More damage expected. Stay safe and avoid unnecessary travel #SEATTLESUBMISSIONS pic.twitter.com/qbkynnpW4w — SEATTLESUBMISSIONS (@SEATTLESUBMISS) November 20, 2024 Kaboom! #BombCyclone pic.twitter.com/z3mobhVAkM — Jim Cantore (@JimCantore) November 20, 2024 Per CNN: A “once in a decade” bomb cyclone lashed the northwest United States and parts of Canada early Wednesday with hurricane-force wind gusts –– leaving at least one person dead and hundreds of thousands without power across Washington state, California and British Columbia. In Seattle and neighboring cities, strong winds are tumbling trees, with some falling on houses and placing lives at risk. In Lynnwood, north of Seattle, a woman in her 50s was killed when a large tree fell on a homeless encampment shortly after 7 p.m. PT, South County Fire Department told CNN. More than 650,000 customers lost power in the early hours of Wednesday in Washington, while about 140,000 customers were without power in British Columbia, BC Hydro reported on its website. As of midnight PT, over 24,000 customers in California were without power. The National Weather Service has reported notable wind gusts across the region, including off the coast of British Columbia, where winds were blowing at 101 mph at the South Brooks Buoy. WATCH:

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