The left is “out of touch with mainstream America,” in protesting President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, pollster John McLaughlin said Friday, and that lack of understanding is why Trump “was able to win again.”

“We did a post-election survey that was done on Nov. 4-6, where on Election Day, among all voters in the country, 56% of all voters approved of Donald Trump then, to only 43% disapproved and [Vice President] Kamala Harris and [President] Joe Biden were net negatives,” McLaughlin told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.”

“So, they never understood their policies, their positions, the things that people cared about, because the leading reasons to vote for Donald Trump in the post-election survey were inflation, securing the border, lowering crime, lowering taxes, and ending the war. They didn’t run on any of those things. All they did was run a campaign of personal character assassination against Donald Trump.

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