Mary Katharine Ham said that Trump’s decisive win in the presidential election was because voters were tired of being called “hateful” for having real life concerns, further adding that “too many in media and in the left-wing consultant class talk only to each other.” She also said that “the [Democratic] Party and the press and Biden and Kamala Harris [herself] all worked together to put [Kamala] in a very bad position.”

Meghan Hays said that she hopes that journalists who failed to understand voters’ concerns “take a hard look at themselves”. She also said that the “celebrity game” Kamala Harris played by doing interviews with several well-known celebrities “is great for media … but that’s not what’s reaching people.”

Lara Trump said the media’s biased coverage of the Trump presidential campaign “really took them over the edge and people started to do their own research.” She also defended President-elect Trump calling Kamala Harris dumb, saying that “a lot of dumb things happened” under the Biden-Harris administration and that Trump “is who he is, and he makes no apologies for it.”

Jacqui Heinrich said the internal blame game between Biden and Harris officials following Kamala Harris’ decisive presidential election loss is in part “because, in some extent, people were surprised by this outcome.” She also said these advisers felt “there were too many cooks in the kitchen, that their operation was sort of a Frankenstein team pieced together by vestiges of Obama’s campaign.”

Richard Fowler said he thinks there are “some critical flaws in the Democratic infrastructure” like failing to focus on black voters who “continue to vote for the Democratic Party over and over and over again.” He also added that “we’ve never seen somebody run a 13-week campaign and actually win versus somebody who’s been running for four years” like Donald Trump.

Griff Jenkins said there has been a “massive shift” in the media landscape, turning the 2024 presidential election into “the podcast election.” He also said that “Trump met people where they are” in appearances such as his three-hour long sit-down with Joe Rogan, who is “bigger than the Sunday shows,” and “you’re going to get votes in the future by going where people are, where they get their news.”