Tapper’s reaction goes viral after Harris fails to outperform Biden in a single state

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper is going viral for his stunned reaction early Wednesday when told that Vice President Kamala Harris had failed to outperform President Biden’s 2020 results in a single state.

Tapper asked CNN chief national correspondent John King to pull up a graphic showing in which states Harris had gotten at least 3% more votes than Biden had in the last election — just to be presented with a gray map reflecting her failure even in that.

“Holy smokes!” Tapper gasped. “Literally nothing?”

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“Literally nothing,” King confirmed.

The slide, which would have lit up states where Harris outperformed Biden by 3% or more, was instead completely gray.

“Literally not one county?” Tapper asked again, still sounding shocked in the footage, which was viewed more than 5 million times in just one clip shared on X.

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King then changed the map to show counties instead of states and noted that Harris only outperformed Biden by 3% in a meager 58 counties.

“So in counties, in 58 counties,” King said. “We just showed Donald Trump was over a thousand counties of the 4,600 counties and townships across America.”

He continued, “There might be more out here on the West Coast, possibly one or two more as they finish the count here, but in the states that matter — again, I just showed you all those Trump counties — in one county in battleground Pennsylvania, she’s outperforming President Biden by 3% or more.”

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