‘Got My Emotional Support Animal’: Fmr Obama Advisors Question How Millions Of Americans ‘Didn’t Buy’ Harris’ Campaign

Former Obama advisors Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Tommy Vitor and Jon Lovett appeared shocked Wednesday on their podcast while breaking down President-elect Donald Trump’s victory from Election night.

Late Tuesday evening, outlets began to call the presidential race between Trump and Vice President in favor of the Republican candidate, shortly after Fox News declared he had won Pennsylvania. On “Pod Save America,” the four Democrat hosts went over the exit data polls revealing Trump’s lead across the nation as he was projected to win both the electoral and popular vote as of Wednesday evening.

“Got my emotional support animal on my lap right here, Leo’s here, let’s get to it,” Favreau said. “Donald Trump won.”

“Trump’s win was quite broad. He improved on his 2020 performance in almost every county among every demographic,” Favreau added. “So a majority of the country that includes all ages, races, genders, religions, and political beliefs chose four more years of Donald Trump, either because they like him or they like his agenda, or they don’t see him and his agenda as enough of a risk, or they voted for him based on bad or incomplete information.”

Favreau went on to note how “incumbent leaders all over the world have been losing” since the pandemic, before asking Pfeiffer to jump in and give his take on the results.

“The polling was telling us this for years now. Three quarters of voters think the country’s on the wrong track,” Pfeiffer said.

” … There will be a ton of second guessing and nitpicking and all of that, but we have to recognize the political environment we’re operating in and the changes in the country politically over the last four years,” Pfeiffer continued. “And it’s the changes that have been going on since 2016, that we were able to win in 2020 by a tiny bit, but we’ve been moving in this direction for a while now, and it came home in a really brutal way last night.”