{"id":1730628,"date":"2022-11-08T20:17:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T01:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730628"},"modified":"2022-11-08T20:17:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T01:17:50","slug":"its-not-even-in-here-cnn-anchor-admits-democracy-isnt-even-a-top-five-issue-for-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-not-even-in-here-cnn-anchor-admits-democracy-isnt-even-a-top-five-issue-for-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Not Even In Here\u2019: CNN Anchor Admits \u2018Democracy\u2019 Isn\u2019t Even A Top-Five Issue For Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-not-even-in-here-cnn-anchor-admits-democracy-isnt-even-a-top-five-issue-for-voters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730628&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Despite the White House\u2019s repeated insistence that \u201cdemocracy\u201d itself was on the 2022 midterms ballot, CNN anchor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/is-that-intentional-cnns-dana-bash-grills-adam-schiff-over-avoiding-witnesses-whod-challenge-the-january-6th-narrative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dana Bash<\/a> noted at the beginning of her network\u2019s Election Night coverage that it wasn\u2019t even a top-five issue for voters.<\/p>\n<p>Bash was part of a Tuesday evening panel \u2014 which included fellow anchors <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/not-all-of-it-jake-tapper-interrupts-biden-official-who-keeps-insisting-gas-prices-are-putins-fault\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jake Tapper<\/a>, Abby Phillip, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/thats-not-perception-thats-reality-chris-wallace-wont-let-nyc-mayor-deflect-on-crime-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Wallace<\/a> and Kasie Hunt \u2014 and they began their coverage of the election with a conversation about last minute poll data and exit polls just as polling locations began to close across the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;You know what&#8217;s missing from this one, two, three, four, five, top five issues? Democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, yeah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not even in here.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iFCdOWyhgB\">pic.twitter.com\/iFCdOWyhgB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1590106667407925248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe numbers in these exits do not line up with what we were seeing in the polling data going into this election about what people cared about and the order in which they ranked it,\u201d Hunt began. \u201cSo we have had a lot of questions throughout this time about new voters, people that hadn\u2019t been in there before that were perhaps not getting captured by the polling. So maybe this is a sign that we\u2019re going to see a little bit more of that than we expected. We obviously don\u2019t know yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you know what\u2019s missing from these one, two, three, four, five, top five issues?\u201d Bash asked before answering her own question: \u201cDemocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, yeah,\u201d Tapper agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not even in here,\u201d Bash continued, adding, \u201cThat\u2019s not to say that it\u2019s not an issue for people, but it doesn\u2019t even come close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not\u00a0<strong><em>the<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>issue,\u201d Tapper added.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden has repeatedly insisted that \u201cDemocracy is on the ballot,\u201d saying, \u201cThe remarkable thing about American democracy is this: Just enough of us on just enough occasions have chosen not to dismantle democracy, but to preserve democracy. We must choose that path again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democracy is on the ballot. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f327esxgnZ\">pic.twitter.com\/f327esxgnZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1588221972776878081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden was not the only one, either. \u201cThe View\u201d host <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/joy-behar-suggests-americans-who-are-worried-about-inflation-are-stupid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joy Behar<\/a> even went so far as to suggest that Americans whose primary concerns were inflation and the economy were just not smart enough to understand that if they voted to save the economy they could lose democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I always say, inflation fluctuates. Democracy does not. And so, we need to know that. I don\u2019t want to make a speech, I\u2019m just saying, I feel like people are not comprehending the seriousness of what is going on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the White House\u2019s repeated insistence that \u201cdemocracy\u201d itself was on the 2022 midterms ballot, CNN anchor Dana Bash noted at the beginning of her network\u2019s Election Night coverage that it wasn\u2019t even a top-five issue for voters. Bash was part of a Tuesday evening panel \u2014 which included fellow anchors Jake Tapper, Abby Phillip, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1730631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}