Democrats, still trying to put their finger on how Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday, are now blaming the defeat on the lack of a left-wing media ecosystem.
Many have long accused mainstream media outlets to be heavily biased toward Democrats, but Laura Barron-Lopez, a political analyst for CNN and PBS, told CNN’s Dana Bash on “Inside Politics” on Thursday that Harris lost because she didn’t have a media ecosystem to help her.
“What’s key here is that there was an entire rightward shift across the entire country,” Barron-Lopez said, according to a transcript of her appearance. “It was not just in swing states, it was also in blue states. And it’s not necessarily assigned to a specific demographic. And so, one thing that I think stands out also, we can’t have this conversation, a little bit to your point, Dana, is that maybe it’s not so much Democrats’ policies or messaging or the words that they use specifically, but there is an entire right-wing media ecosystem that doesn’t exist on the left.
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