MSNBC host and former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday morning reflected on what she would tell her daughter after Donald Trump won the presidency.
“I wish I had better news for my daughter later this morning,” Psaki said on air after NBC News called the presidency for Trump following his projected win in Wisconsin over Democrat Kamala Harris. “I wish I could have called her and told her that the first woman president had just been elected. I wish that. I won't be able to do that.”
Psaki stressed, however, that Americans will now get to work to protect the country, amid fears that Trump will severely erode the country’s democratic institutions and guardrails on his power when he returns to the Oval Office.
“What I can do, what I can tell my daughter and what I will tell my daughter, is that our roles as American citizens have never been more important than they are right now,” Psaki said. “I can tell her that there are still lots of good forces out there — forces for good in this country — and that they are going to be getting to work.”
