Democrats have been having fits attempting to cope with the victory of President-elect Donald Trump against Vice President Kamala Harris.

A case in point was when House Minority Leader and Democrat New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries spoke to CBS News anchor Gayle King when he suggested that the election was close.

Co-host Tony Doukopil said that “it’s not that Democrats didn’t have programs and results they could point to to say, ‘We’re helping working families.’ But people didn’t hear it.”

“Well, we clearly care about making life better for everyday Americans, and it drives everything that we do from a policy perspective. But of course, we’ve got to figure out how we can better connect the policies that we’ve worked hard to implement under the leadership of President Biden and Vice President Harris. You know, infrastructure, fixing our crumbling bridges, roads and tunnels, creating millions of good-paying union jobs. That’s putting people first. That was a policy, that actually happened,” said Jefferies. “But we have to better connect why we are doing these things and how it will lead to improving the quality of life of every America.”

“It sounds like you’re still processing, but were you stunned last Tuesday night? I’m just curious. I know lessons learned and all of that, but were you stunned by what happened?” King responded.

“Well, we knew going into the election, as Vice President Harris repeatedly stated, including at the convention, this is close and it’s going to be close-.” The Democrat leader said before the anchor interrupted and said, “But it wasn’t close.”

The Democrat ignored what she said and continued his sentence, “-all the way through. I think at the end of the day, the popular vote will be close. I think it was, you know, an Electoral College outcome that most people on the Democratic side didn’t expect because everything broke at the presidential level in terms of Donald Trump’s direction.”