'Breathless' commentary on Trump belies the real — and simple — reason he won: analyst

Republicans and Democrats alike have scrambled to come up with ever-fancier theories of why Donald Trump was re-elected to the presidency, but the real answer is staring everyone in the face, a senior fellow with the left-leaning Center for American Progress said on MSNBC's "The Beat" on Wednesday evening.

"The basic idea here, which I've been pinging around, is like what happened in this election basically, was it Trump's message or Trump himself had some kind of unique political appeal...