Van Jones Shuts Down CNN's Progressive-Punching Narrative About McAuliffe’s Virginia Loss

Van Jones isn't scared. He'll cry on TV. He'll be a company man. He does what he wants AND what he's told. In this clip, he appears on @CNN with Anderson Cooper and longtime adviser to Mitch McConnell Scott Jennings to do a post-mortem on the Virginia gubernatorial race. Anderson Cooper suggests that Terry McAuliffe's loss suggests that the Democratic Party is "too far left." He mentions Defund the Police and socialism. Van Jones chimes in to say that he thinks if McAuliffe had been able to stick to a "message of economic progress" he would have had a better chance at winning. The Majority Report crew discuss this moment where Van Jones is right.

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Sam Seder: The idea that you could say this is a function of The Squad... To raise that like Anderson Cooper does is the most ludicrous thing. Terry McAuliffe is the furthest thing away... There's no way that someone looks at Terry McAuliffe and goes, "I don't want to vote for AOC." That doesn't happen. That's not there, and if that is, then you are done anyways because if it's not AOC, it's San Francisco Nancy Pelosi. And if it's not San Francisco Nancy Pelosi, then it's, whatever you want to say, it's Crazy Krysten Sinema.

Emma Vigeland: How can you make the argument too that Youngkin is able to distance himself from Trump, and then on the flip side that McAuliffe is unable to distance himself from the crazy AOC/Bernie–wing? They never make that case because every race is different but you know it's heads Progressives are to be blamed, tails Progressives are.

SS: I challenge anybody in Virginia or outside of Virginia tell me what Terry McAuliffe's pitch was as to why you should affirmatively come out and vote for him.

Matt Lech: You had to hear second hand from like people saying, "He wants to pardon a whole bunch of folks," and stuff like that.

SS: No, no, no, no — but in the future. What was Terry McAuliffe going to do?

EV: What was he running on?

SS: And listen, I definitely think there is a value to being like, "I'm not going to be that guy."

EV: Yes, but that was...

SS: But you need to have more.

EV: And isn't it ironic that he was pretty much the Clinton hand-picked candidate? McAuliffe? And then he ran on, "I'm not that guy." Damn. Damn.

SS: I also think that that there's another lesson here is that like that ilk of Democratic candidate: Their day is over. It's over, and McAuliffe was not a bad governor in Virginia, or at least he wasn't as bad as I thought he would be. And let's be clear, in Virginia, you had two years of a Democratic trifecta essentially, of a full rule. They did good things: expanded the franchise; they did all sorts of criminal justice reform; got rid of the death penalty; there was a whole list of things that I think that the Democrats did pretty well. They expanded Medicaid under the Democrats in Virginia.

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