MSNBC Panel Tries to Minimize Democrats 2015 Losses
MSNBC Panel Desperately Tries to Minimize Democrats 2015 Losses (NewsBusters)
On Wednesday night’s Last Word, MSNBC’s Alex Wagner introduced the broadcast by complaining that despite President Obama “riding the political wave of political success” “the Democratic Party just got a brutal reality check” in the 2015 elections.
The MSNBC host and liberal Washington Post columnist EJ Dionne repeatedly tried to downplay the bad night for Democrats and chalked it up to low voter turnout among key Democratic demographic groups rather than a rejection of the party's liberal policies.
After Wagner detailed how “down the ballot, Democrats are suffering significant losses” she brought on Dionne and asked him if the party’s losses were merely just a result of the normal political cycle rather than actual problems within the Democratic Party:
