With Joe Biden on the verge of being declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, CNN's Friday afternoon coverage took the time to insist that all Americans should celebrate the historic glass-shattering moment of Kamala Harris becoming vice president. In addition, one of their elitist, leftist partisans informed us that we must also subscribe to the electoral conclusion that Biden has a mandate while ignoring the Democratic Party's horrid performance in House and Senate races.
Talking about the speech Biden was planning to deliver Friday night, political correspondent Abby Phillip suggested: "Now, they're looking at the possibility that [Joe Biden] might not lose and I think there's a lot of pent up desire for Democrats to feel validated, to not feel like they're going to be pushed aside in the interest of trying to extend an olive branch, to people -- bad faith actors quite frankly. And so, this is the balancing act that Joe Biden will need to do tonight."
Democrats can desire all they want, but the House and Senate results speak for themselves. And yet, Phillip still claimed that Biden has a mandate to both "reach out the hand, but also validation for his own party that got him here, that their values are going to be taken to the White House, that they are not going to be sort of pushed aside, just for purposes of saying that you want to be bipartisan."
A couple minutes later, The Lead and State of the Union host Jake Tapper shifted the conversation to Harris:
[W]hen Kamala Harris -- Senator Kamala Harris gave her speech at her convention such as the convention was, we all took a moment to acknowledge what an incredible moment it was for girls, for women, for people of color to see themselves represented that way and we are on track to have this moment as you acknowledged very eloquently a few hours ago to have the first woman of color vice president in the history of the United States and what a remarkable moment that will be should we get there and we think we will.
Phillip concurred, "It is its own glass ceiling moment. I mean, Hillary Clinton was not successful in becoming president of the United States, but there has never been a woman vice president of the United States. There's never been a person of color as vice president of the United States. It's a huge glass ceiling moment for women and for black women and for South Asian women."
Acknowledging the historic nature of the moment is one thing, Phillip then claimed we must also celebrate it, even if you don't support left-wing Democrats: "And, you know, we do have to take a moment and just let that sink in because there's a lot of partisan bickering going on, but in a normal world in which we are not at each other's throats politically, and in the past in this country we have allowed those moments to be recognized and to be celebrated for what they are."
A sentiment that was shared by chief political correspondent Dana Bash, who said: "[H]opefully as you said earlier, they will be, even by people who would have preferred that Kamala Harris weren't the first person just because of her party, first woman to get this role. "
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Here is a transcript for the November 6 show:
CNN Election Day in America Continued
November 6, 2020
1:26 p.m. EasternABBY PHILLIP: Now, they're looking at the possibility that [Joe Biden] might not lose and I think there's a lot of pent up desire for Democrats to feel validated, to not feel like they're going to be pushed aside in the interest of trying to extend an olive branch, to people -- bad faith actors quite frankly. And so, this is the balancing act that Joe Biden will need to do tonight. It's a combination of the two things. Yes, reach out the hand, but also validation for his own party that got him here, that their values are going to be taken to the White House, that they are not going to be sort of pushed aside, just for purposes of saying that you want to be bipartisan. There's a lot of quiet talk among Democrats about what a Joe Biden transition might look like and how far he might go to reach out to Republicans. There was some griping about the convention, about how many Republicans played a role in that convention. So, you know, I'm sure that the Biden campaign has been thinking about this for quite some time. This is not a new conversation, but it's going to have to be dealt with tonight to some degree, in addition to unifying the country, just allowing Democrats to have this moment because it's been a long time coming for many of them.
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1:29 p.m. Eastern
JAKE TAPPER: And I just want to take one more moment. You did this earlier, I want to do it again, which is when Kamala Harris -- Senator Kamala Harris gave her speech at her convention such as the convention was, we all took a moment to acknowledge what an incredible moment it was for girls, for women, for people of color to see themselves represented that way and we are on track to have this moment as you acknowledged very eloquently a few hours ago to have the first woman of color vice president in the history of the United States and what a remarkable moment that will be should we get there and we think we will.
PHILLIP: Yeah, it will be. I mean, I think even that on a day like today, if Joe Biden ends up being able to give that speech and Kamala Harris we're hearing will also speak tonight as well is what they're planning, that's going to be a historic moment. It is its own glass ceiling moment. I mean, Hillary Clinton was not successful in becoming president of the United States, but there has never been a woman vice president of the United States. There's never been a person of color as vice president of the United States. It's a huge glass ceiling moment for women and for black women and for South Asian women. And, you know, we do have to take a moment and just let that sink in because there's a lot of partisan bickering going on, but in a normal world in which we are not at each other's throats politically, and in the past in this country we have allowed those moments to be recognized and to be celebrated for what they are.
DANA BASH: Yeah and hopefully as you said earlier, they will be, even by people who would have preferred that Kamala Harris weren't the first person just because of her party, first woman to get this role. This is obviously much, much, much less important, but the other thing is you talked about Senator Harris, is her husband. This is going to be the first time we're going to see a second --
PHILLIP: A Second Man.
BASH: --- spouse, a second man, a second dude, whatever they call him, which will be another dynamic.
TAPPER: Not to mention, the first Jew in that building.
BASH: There we go. I didn't even --- that's true. So there's a lot of norms that are going to be busted, assuming this happens. And we'll have a lot of time to talk about what it means.
