Spin Cycle: Here Come The Sunday Morning Quarterbacks

For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.

By the Sunday morning after the November 5 presidential election, the media talking heads had had just under a week to formulate their opinions on what exactly had gone wrong for Vice President Kamala Harris. A number of them who’d predicted either a race that was too close to call even for days — or a blowout win for Harris — popped up on the Sunday morning political shows to say pretty much the opposite of what they’d said just a week earlier.

On ABC’s “This Week,” pollster Frank Luntz said that Harris had made a campaign-killing mistake when she decided to run on attacking now President-elect Donald Trump rather than the issues the American people truly cared about.

Whoever had advised her to do that, Luntz said, had “committed political malpractice.” He added, “In the end, you cannot change someone’s point of view on him. It was all about her.”

Whoever told Kamala Harris to focus on Donald Trump “committed political malpractice,” pollster Frank Luntz says while sharing focus group insights post-election.

“In the end, you cannot change someone’s point of view on him. It was all about her.” https://t.co/yU4MQFhifU pic.twitter.com/Vhv9lFddsp

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) November 10, 2024

Former Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) just a week earlier had said that undecideds were almost certainly breaking hard for Harris — a prediction that failed to materialize on Election Day — and on Sunday, he argued that the Democratic Party’s monumental shift to the left had not appealed to the American people.

“The Democratic Party from 2017 through 2024 went off the deep end. I mean, the stuff they’ve been saying is just offensive to a large percentage of the American people,” he said.

.@GovChristie on the election results: “The Democratic Party from 2017 through 2024 went off the deep end. I mean, the stuff they've been saying is just offensive to a large percentage of the American people.” pic.twitter.com/dmt7lpoABx

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) November 10, 2024

The Associated Press executive editor Julie Pace claimed that the Democratic Party had misread the electorate because they ““were so focused in so many ways at trying to convince people that the economy was strong, that they didn’t realize that people weren’t feeling that.”

She left out the fact that multiple Democrats — and even Harris herself — had been directly asked on more than one occasion his they intended to address the problem staring them in the face: voters did not believe them when they said the Biden economy was “working.”

Democrats in office “were so focused in so many ways at trying to convince people that the economy was strong, that they didn't realize that people weren't feeling that,” AP’s @JuliePace tells @JonKarl. pic.twitter.com/18GcNbnXzH

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) November 10, 2024

On CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” host Margaret Brennan and several of her guests discussed the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, with the majority fretting over the possibility that Trump, once in office, could potentially cut off aid to Ukraine.

The U.K.'s ambassador to the U.S., Dame Karen Pierce, says she hopes the incoming Trump administration does not cut off aid to Ukraine:

"If Putin is allowed to succeed in Ukraine, that threatens all of us, including the U.S., and it certainly emboldens China, and I don't think… pic.twitter.com/n3uHB8HAsY

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) November 10, 2024

Rep. Ro Hanna (D-CA) pointed specifically to Michigan and claimed that Harris could possibly have won if she’d done more to side with the progressives and younger voters who were angry at Israel for fighting back against Hamas terrorists after the October 7 massacre.

Making no mention of the fact that younger voters — particularly younger male voters — had broken for Trump in large numbers in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and a number of other states, Khanna argued that Harris “certainly would have won Michigan if there was more of a reckoning with the failures of policy on Gaza.”

“Beyond Michigan, this really was a concern for a lot of young people and a lot of progressives,” he said.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) says Kamala Harris "certainly would have won Michigan if there was more of a reckoning with the failures of policy on Gaza," and that he was hearing this from people on the ground.

"Beyond Michigan, this really was a concern for a lot of young people and a… pic.twitter.com/yCYupEht4e

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) November 10, 2024

NBC anchor Kristen Welker spoke with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on “Meet the Press,” where they addressed rumors that Democrats were pressuring Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step aside, giving President Biden the chance to choose someone younger who would likely remain on the court longer. Sanders said that he was not impressed with that strategy, and would not advise it.

While admitting that he had heard “a little” such talk, he argued that it was not a “sensible approach.”

WATCH: Sen. Bernie Sanders says the idea that Justice Sotomayor should step down so President Biden can appoint someone younger before he leaves office is not a "sensible approach."@kwelkernbc: "Have you heard any talk of this?"@BernieSanders: "A little bit, yes." pic.twitter.com/jwVIvBmvym

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) November 10, 2024

Things went sideways on CNN’s “State of the Union” when former Harris communications director Jamal Simmons argued during a panel discussion that Biden should step down and allow Harris the chance to be the first female president and serve out his term.

Despite the fact that Harris never won a single Democratic primary vote of her own accord — and had just lost both the Electoral College and the popular vote in Tuesday’s election — Simmons claimed that if Biden simply anointed her President of the United States, that would somehow smash through the proverbial glass ceiling and make it easier for the next woman who decided to run for president.

“Joe Biden’s been a phenomenal president, he’s lived up to so many of the promises he’s made,” Simmons claimed, and then immediately argued that the one thing Biden hadn’t done yet was provide the promised “transition” to younger leadership. “There’s one promise left that he could fulfill, being a transitional figure. He could resign the presidency in the next 30 days, make Kamala Harris president of the United States —”

“Whoa,” Republican commentator Scott Jennings hit the brakes, and host Dana Bash was also quick to respond: “Wow.”

“It would absolve her from having to oversee the January 6 transition — right? — of her own defeat. And it would make sure, it would dominate the news, at a point where Democrats have to learn drama and transparency and doing things the public want to see — this is the time, this is the moment for us to change the entire perspective of how Democrats operate,” Simmons explained.

Biden should resign and make Kamala #47. What I said on @CNNSOTU this morning. https://t.co/3KqmTMFuyL

— Jamal Simmons (@JamalSimmons) November 10, 2024

Simmons doubled down after the show in an X post, saying, “Joe Biden has been amazing but he should fulfill one last promise – to be transitional. Biden should resign and make Kamala Harris the first woman president. It’d turn tables on Trump, keep Kamala from presiding over Jan 6 make it easier for next woman to run.”

Dems have better policies but we must realize the old rules no longer apply. We are not playing table tennis. We are in a mixed martial arts fight and Americans respond to drama and excitement. We should use that to make our arguments for a better path forward.

— Jamal Simmons (@JamalSimmons) November 10, 2024