Michael Knowles Appears On CBS Mornings To Explain Trump’s Massive Success Among Men
Daily Wire host Michael Knowles was interviewed by CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil for a segment that aired Thursday morning, dissecting President-elect Donald Trump’s huge success among men in the 2024 election.
In the segment, Dokoupil talked to conservative and liberal political commentators and strategists to investigate how Trump made massive gains among Latino men and men under 30. Among Latino men of all ages, Trump saw an 18-point swing in his favor in 2024, while 18-29-year-old men swung toward Trump by 8 points.
“Trump appealed to men because he appealed to men,” Knowles told the CBS Mornings co-host. “He actually campaigned to try to win their votes.”
“When Kamala was campaigning, such as it was for young men, she sent out her husband to describe masculinity as toxic. Not a great way to win people over,” Knowles added. “She sent out Barack Obama to harangue black men who didn’t want to vote for her.”
CBS played clips of second gentleman Doug Emhoff criticizing the “trope out there that you gotta be tough and angry and lash out to be strong” and then played a clip of former President Obama scolding black men for not “feeling the idea of having a woman as president.”
“This is not the way to win the hearts and minds of young men,” said Knowles.
“Knowles feels the Left has utterly lost its way on gender,” Dokoupil narrated.
.@tonydokoupil: “Trump is normal.”@michaeljknowles: “Paradoxically so.”
Michael Knowles has to explain to the mainstream media why Donald Trump was able to connect with men on @CBSMornings. pic.twitter.com/KdAvCnunfZ
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Knowles argued that it’s not only men that the Left is losing.
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“It’s no wonder they’ve turned men away, but it’s no wonder that they’ve turned women away either,” the Daily Wire host added. “Because women don’t want girly men. Women want men to be like men.”
“There were distinctions between the roles of men and women in the past that always had exceptions, but nevertheless were defined,” he continued. “But now in the name of equality, we seek to deny any distinction. I think what men want and what women want, for that matter, is just to return to a kind of normal society where we can have our traditional way of life and not be constantly taken aback by all sorts of ideological matters. And I think Trump, in his own way, offered that.”
“Trump is normal,” Dokoupil quipped.
“Paradoxically so,” Knowles replied.
After the segment aired, CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King praised Knowles for pointing out that “Trump appealed to men because he appealed to men.”
