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Smith stresses broken promises; O'Reilly points to Republicans' lack of empathy

NewsNation's CUOMO discussion finds agreement on voter anger, but different explanations for what drove it.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 208,279 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (13,342).

Stephen A. Smith, Bill O’Reilly clash on why voters rebuked Trump, GOP | CUOMO

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0:20O'Reilly frames the result as voter anger turning against Trump after helping bring him to power.
1:08O'Reilly argues Republicans lacked empathy toward voters facing economic pressure and the effects of immigration enforcement.
2:44O'Reilly criticizes Markwayne Mullin's communication with the public.
3:32Smith attributes voter anger to broken promises on war and affordability, alongside Trump's focus on personal grievances.

Stephen A. Smith wants to get past the word "angry." On CUOMO, his question is what Republicans did to make voters feel that way.

"The why is what matters," he tells Chris Cuomo, after Bill O'Reilly describes the midterm result as voter anger turning against the party in power. The segment drew about 208,000 views in its first day, roughly sixteen times NewsNation's usual start for comparable videos.

O'Reilly's explanation centers on a failure to show empathy. He points to economic pressure and the effects of immigration enforcement, arguing that Republicans did not sufficiently acknowledge what voters were experiencing. "The president and the Republican Party are not showing enough empathy," he says.

Smith, familiar to sports audiences from ESPN's First Take, puts the emphasis on promises voters believed had been broken. He names affordability and Trump's pledge to avoid new wars, then argues that personal grievances and the conflict with Iran displaced the concerns of the people who elected him.

"They were angry because you told them no new wars, and you had one," Smith says.

The disagreement is more about emphasis than whether voters delivered a rebuke. Cuomo's separate opening commentary interpreting the election as a rejection of MAGA also drew an unusually large audience, as did NewsNation's report on Mississippi's unresolved Senate count.

Smith closes his argument by recalling Trump's appeal to working-class voters: those were people he had drawn away from the Democrats, making their disillusionment central to Smith's explanation.

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