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From Fox News: MSNBC host Chris Hayes fumed over new poll results showing former President Trump as the favorite to win the Electoral College and therefore the presidency in November.
On his X account Friday, the “All in With Chris Hayes” anchor blasted recent poll results from famed pollster Nate Silver showing that Harris would most likely beat Trump in the national popular vote if the election were held today, though Trump would win the Electoral College.
The media pundit’s statement referenced a quote from Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, who wrote in 1949 that the Supreme Court “will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact” if it doesn’t balance its “doctrine logic with a little practical wisdom.”
Hayes seemed to be using the quote to suggest that the U.S.’s commitment to deciding presidential elections using the Electoral College system – which progressive Democratic lawmakers believe is obsolete – will needlessly result in the catastrophe of Trump returning to the White House.
Finance journalist Geiger Capital shared a screenshot of the new poll results and wrote:
Just like that… Trump is now back to being the favorite in Nate Silver’s election model.
🔴 Trump – 52%
🔵 Harris – 47%Harris is favored in the popular vote but an electoral college underdog. It’s largely due to Pennsylvania (where she passed on Josh Shapiro for VP).
“Independent of the model itself, it’s clear as day the electoral college is, to quote the great justice Jackson a national suicide pact. Just a wildly dangerous institution that undermines democracy but also creates all manner of rube-goldberg machinery to be attacked by bad actors,” Hayes raged.
Independent of the model itself, it’s clear as day the electoral college is, to quote the great justice Jackson a national suicide pact. Just a wildly dangerous institution that undermines democracy but also creates all manner of rube-goldberg machinery to be attacked by bad… https://t.co/NROBirf3yt
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 29, 2024
Geiger Capital fired back at Hayes: “You know what really undermines democracy, Chris? Lying to the nation about the President’s condition to get around a primary and then not allowing the voters to choose their presidential candidate. Also, suing people and using the courts to keep other candidates off the ballot.”
You know what really undermines democracy, Chris?
Lying to the nation about the President’s condition to get around a primary and then not allowing the voters to choose their presidential candidate. Also, suing people and using the courts to keep other candidates off the ballot.
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) August 29, 2024
Geiger Capital also dealt a crushing blow to Kamala Harris, while sharing a clip from her disastrous CNN interview Thursday night:
“I truly don’t care about either candidate or either political party… Kamala Harris would be the lowest IQ President we’ve had in modern US history.”
I truly don’t care about either candidate or either political party…
Kamala Harris would be the lowest IQ President we’ve had in modern US history. pic.twitter.com/lNVIDLwvpC
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) August 30, 2024
MSNBC host rages after seeing polls showing Trump leading, calls Electoral College a ‘suicide pact’ https://t.co/oDJrlUTjvK
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 31, 2024
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