During CNN’s coverage of Tuesday’s election, CNN Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones stated that while you can’t really say what exactly determined the result of the 2024 election, President-Elect Donald Trump had leeway to behave poorly that his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t due to race and gender.
Jones said that while it’s hard to say exactly what determined the outcome, “I do think it’s bitter in the mouth, the racial and gender dimension of this. And the only way that you can kind of begin to see it if you don’t see it right away is, can you imagine a woman of color acting like Donald Trump acted, even for one day? The kinds of stuff that he said, the kinds of things that he did, the way that he would insult people. If you’re a person of color, you don’t feel like you have that freedom. You feel like you…
