Ex-NBC anchor Brian Williams waited until after the 11th hour to dress down Democrats’ 2024 campaign strategy, panning the party as dismally detached from reality.
“It is tough love time for the Democratic Party. I think it needs to be stripped down and rebuilt,” the former “11th Hour” host told Seth Meyers on his late night show on Wednesday, adding that a change of party leadership might be in order.
It’s unclear why Williams waited to weigh in on the state of Democratic party until after Election Day, when Vice President Kamala Harris got shellacked, losing the popular vote and Electoral College to now President-elect Donald Trump.
The Democrats also lost control of the Senate while Republicans retained control of the House.
“I want to know who thought it was a good idea that Joe Biden stand for another four years at 80 years of age and 37 percent popularity,” said the talking head.
He went on to ding the Biden administration for gaslighting Americans on issues like the economy and the border, telling Meyers it amounts to “insulting” blue collar voters that the Democrats desperately need.
“I think it’s insulting when members of the working class — which the Democratic Party has lost entirely in our lifetimes — to insist the economy’s doing great,” adding that a 12-pack of Bounty paper towels now runs consumers about forty bucks.
“Rich folks don’t feel that. Poor folks already switched to Sparkle during the lockdown,” he said cheekily, referring to the bargain brand.
“I think the biggest unforced error of the Biden administration by far was the border. To tell people it’s not a problem is insulting.”
Under Biden, Vice President and supposed ‘border czar” Kamala Harris, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Customs and Border Patrol has recorded nearly 11 million illegal migrant encounters at the US border since Biden took office.
That number dwarfs the 3 million recorded in the four years before that, when President-elect Trump was serving his first term.
“For the working class to see incoming migrants getting welcome bags, debit cards and motel rooms is probably insulting as well. So there’s a lot of work to do,” Williams opined.
Williams, 65, left MSNBC and NBC News in 2021. In October he was announced as the anchor for Amazon Prime Video’s election night special coverage.
In 2015, NBC News suspended the anchor in disgrace for lying multiple times about his experiences covering the Iraq War, falsely claiming he was in a helicopter that was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade.