‘Wow!’ Jake Tapper Stunned By 20-Point Swing Toward Trump Among Independents in Georgia Exit Poll

CNN’s Jake Tapper was stunned by the results of his network’s exit poll in Georgia on Tuesday night, and in particular, its finding that there has been a 20-point swing toward Donald Trump among independents as compared to 2020.

It fell to Tapper’s colleague David Chalian to break the news.

“This will be the story of these exit polls in Georgia. Independent voters — they make up 31% of the electorate, that is a slightly larger share than what they made up four years ago — Trump is winning them by 11 points in these early exit poll results, 54% to 43%,” said Chalian. “Jake, four years ago, Joe Biden won independent voters in Georgia — when he won the state — by nine points. So we’ve seen a swing of 20 points towards Trump in terms of the margin from nine-point advantage four years ago with independents for Biden to now an 11-point advantage with independents for Trump in Georgia.”

“Wow!” exclaimed Tapper before asking Dana Bash to weigh in on the “wild” swing.

“It’s a huge swing. And I just want to underscore what David said, it is a bigger percentage of the vote share,” replied Bash. “Last time around, it was 28%, independents made up 28% of the Georgia vote. And now it is 31, excuse me, 30%, excuse me, yeah no I was right, 31%. And it is a total flip. It’s a complete flip. Donald Trump is doing so much better with independents than Kamala Harris. And Joe Biden kind of ran away with independents four years ago, and of course, he won the state.”

Watch above via CNN.