Election Night on the soon-to-be-former MSNBC was about as you’d expect: equal parts liberal brain rot and, on a night where the left made significant gains, a twinge of smug insufferability. Here are a few select moments from their coverage.
As you may know, the network implements its name change to MS NOW in just under two weeks. Rachel Maddow opened the night’s prime-time coverage by shilling for the much-mocked and maligned name change and introducing a new commercial as part of the rollout:
Rachel Maddow shills for MS NOW’s new branding an ad campaign, and introduces the first ad: a gross misappropriation of the Declaration of Independence pic.twitter.com/JDuTghH5rD
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 5, 2025
Aping the sacred Declaration of Independence and appropriating it into advertising for a far-left propaganda outlet seems exactly on-brand. Prescient, even, given the evening’s results.
Early analyses centered around the ongoing ballroom construction at The White House, which dominated the news cycles for about a week. MSNBC alluded to this not once, but twice as a potential factor in the Democrats’ sweep. First, Lawrence O’Donnell:
BRAINWORMS: MSNBC, on two occasions, gave credence to the idea of ballroom construction being a factor in tonight’s election results pic.twitter.com/WyYnV43qnN
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 5, 2025
And then via the host of Box Wine Storytime Hour, Nicolle Wallace:
Here’s Nicolle Wallace, hours later, repeating the ballroom brainworms pic.twitter.com/yEaf7oe5pf
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 5, 2025
Because this is MSNBC, no prime time block is complete without a little election denialism and accusations of vote rigging. Watch as former RNC Chairman and The Weeknight host Michael Steele suggests that Republican secretaries of state will rig the midterms, and elections beyond:
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Watch as weekend host Ali Velshi runs down the numbers in northern Virginia, and established both Elon Musk and DOGE as GOP scapegoats ahead of a Democrat sweep. Velshi also appeals to a right to be secure in one’s government job.
Elon Musk and DOGE emerge as early Virginia scapegoats in MSNBC’s election coverage. “The sense of not being secure in your government job is particularly important to Virginians.” pic.twitter.com/GujjprDqLf
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 5, 2025
As MSNBC wound down their primetime coverage, it was particularly noteworthy that they didn’t mention the Virginia Attorney General race until almost five hours in, with one glaring omission:
It took MSNBC 4 hours and 52 minutes to mention that the Democrat nominee won the race for Virginia Attorney General but did not mention him by name. pic.twitter.com/dbRNZXsYKX
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 5, 2025
MSNBC completely glossed over the murderous text messages sent to a House colleague by the now Attorney General Elect, Jay Jones. In so doing, they essentially created a permission structure for further political violence. An ominous choice, given the proclivities of the left and of its new standard bearer, who will move into Gracie Mansion at the end of the year. We expect MS NOW will be no better.
