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Emotional Van Jones breaks down over Trump ‘nightmare’
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Emotional Van Jones breaks down over Trump ‘nightmare’

CNN commentator Van Jones delivered another emotional monologue on election night as polls showed Donald Trump likely to win the presidency, telling his fellow panelists on Wednesday that it would mark another day of terror for certain groups targeted by the former president during his campaign.

“They thought tomorrow morning they were going to come out with their shoulders back a little bit, maybe they were able to breathe for the first time and feel like they belonged somewhere,” Jones said shortly before 1 a.m. Wednesday. “They’ve done everything they know how to do and it’s going to be harder than it should be tomorrow for them to keep their heads up.”

Jones described the plight of black women, undocumented migrants and trans children in the US, saying those groups and others will face threats to their way of life under another Trump administration.

“It’s easy to blow that off, ‘Oh, look at the elites, they’re going to be successful,'” Jones said. “It is not the elite who will pay the price. There are people who woke up this morning with a dream and go to bed with a nightmare, and these people did not deserve to be respected, held and talked to. These are the people who will pay the price for whatever Donald Trump decides to do.”

Jones’ speech is one of many moments, often emotional provided CNN viewers during this election season. Polls on Wednesday showed that Trump is likely to decisively defeat Kamala Harris in this year’s presidential election.