Lost a moral victory

Democrats lost a moral victory on Election Night

Van Jones

I think a lot of Democrats are hurting tonight.

There's the moral victory, and there's the political victory. They are not the same. The Democratic political victory might still come. But I believe people wanted a moral victory tonight.

Under the Trump administration we've witnessed children getting snatched away from their mothers at the border -- several hundred of whom have yet to be reunited with their parents. Parents are sending their kids into schools where the N-word is being used against them. And there is a wave of intolerance that, quite frankly, is intolerable.

People got their hopes up looking at those polls showing Joe Biden had a solid lead over Donald Trump. We wanted to see a repudiation of Trump's direction for the country. The reality that this election is this close just hurts.

The political victory is still possible. We still have to wait on final results in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Georgia and Arizona.

But I have to be honest -- there were people hoping for a big repudiation in this election and that has not yet come. And because of that, a lot of people are hurt and scared tonight in the Democratic Party.