SORE WINNERS: MSNBC Spends Night Lashing Out at Republicans

Despite Tuesday night showing a Democratic sweep in the Georgia Senate runoff election, the mood on MSNBC was anything but joyous. Instead, various hosts and panelists threw a pity party for fellow leftists, bemoaning supposed Republican voter suppression efforts and insisting Republicans should be shamed from political life as un-American racists who won’t win another presidential election.

Feigning concern for the GOP’s future, MSNBC political analyst and Lincoln Project senior advisor Michael Steele griped in the 10:30 p.m. Eastern half-hour that the Democrats would win because Republicans “allowed it to happen this way” and that they should think on their sins.

Deadline: White House host and fellow faux Republican Nicolle Wallace spent much of the evening in a state of demoralization instead of euphoria, bemoaning “[t]he information stream has been so poisoned” by views contrary to hers and that false claims about the election being stolen will make Joe Biden’s unity pledge harder to achieve.

Even though the 11:00 p.m. Eastern hour continued to show victories for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, MSNBC exploded with bouts of dismay.

ReidOut host Joy Reid repeatedly warned of Republican voter suppression efforts and trotted out the false claim that Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) stole the 2018 gubernatorial race from Stacey Abrams (click “expand”):

I mean, look, if you’ve paid attention to Georgia politics over the last, you know, many years really going back to the Stacey Abrams race, Georgia is not a state that tends to make it easy to vote to say the least. There have been voter purges. There have been questions over signature matching. There were massive purges conducted by the exact same secretary of state who's getting praised for standing up to Donald Trump like a sort of intervention on that maybe illegal call and by the governor, Brian Kemp, who got in — he was the former secretary of state and was basically his own referee. So, it doesn't surprise me there would be delays and issues that then come right back down to majority black counties because suppressing black and non-white votes is kind of the business of Republicans in Georgia I hate to say.