White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre didn’t stick around for long at her first press briefing since Tuesday’s election, finally leaving the podium after a Fox News reporter asked if President Joe Biden has considered his culpability in President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
A cool and measured KJP came undone after reporter Jacqui Heinrich queried her about a tweet by Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres, who wrote on Wednesday that “Donald Trump has no greater friend” than far-left activists who “managed to alienate large numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like ‘Defund the Police’ or ‘from the river to the sea.’” Heinrich contrasted that with previous excuses put forth by the administration blaming holdover inflation from the pandemic as the cause of Trump’s reelection rather than the messaging the Vice President Kamala Harris ran on. “Is that easier than looking in the mirror?” she asked directly.
Jean-Pierre tried to politely deflect, stating Biden and Harris have been “pretty clear and understanding” about the results of the election.
Heinrich followed up to ask about Biden’s statement Wednesday that everything “would be okay” after Trump’s win despite the transparent fear-mongering he, Harris, and top Democrats engaged