CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Blows Apart Donald Trump’s New Blame Game Using His Own Words

HuffPost · Lee Moran · 2026-11-06 09:07 UTC

“Blaming the voters is certainly an interesting strategy...”

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Thursday challenged Donald Trump’s attempt to blame voters for a stock market crash following Democrats’ projected midterm election victories, pointing out the president had personally endorsed several losing Republican candidates.

“Blaming the voters is certainly an interesting strategy, given it was the president whose policies the voters themselves blamed, and it was this president who personally backed a slew of candidates that lost in huge races,” said Collins.

“The Source” anchor then aired a montage of Trump enthusiastically backing Republicans who went on to lose their Senate races, including Mike Collins in Georgia, Michael Whatley in North Carolina, Ken Paxton in Texas, Darline Graham in South Carolina and Mike Rogers in Michigan.

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