‘Outflanked, Outplayed, Out-Beat’: CNN’s Van Jones Makes Shocking Admission of Defeat

Recognizes That Trump Won by ‘Building a Different Media System’

Former Barack Obama adviser, and CNN contributor, Van Jones went on-air to discuss what went wrong with Kamala Harris train-wreck of a campaign.

Even if commenting from his very liberal point of view, he got one aspect of the electoral cycle right: legacy media took a beating from independent and citizen journalism.

Read his pitch:

“Van Jones: And here's how we got beat.

We got beat because the Republicans and conservatives built a different media system that had to do with online, had to do with podcasts, had to do with streaming platforms.

And they were spending their money there. We were laughing at them, and knocking on doors in Philadelphia and Detroit was like - there's no Trump, people.

They're not dropping literature. They're not knocking on doors.

Erin Burnett: Well, in fact, it was, it was laughing like, oh, Elon Musk and Charlie Kirk, with their PACs, don't know what they're doing, they're blowing it’.

Van Jones: We were making fun of Donald Trump for having thrown away his ground game in doing some weird stuff online.

We thought that they were idiots. It turned out we were the idiots. We woke up in a body bag because while we were knocking on doors, they were making these phones into 24-hour-a-day political weapons for themselves. And so, we got outflanked, outplayed, out-beat by people who told us the whole time that they knew what they were doing.”