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Elections have consequences for the legacy media

By Joe Concha
Published April 3, 2025 2:00pm ET
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Elections have consequences for the legacy media
Actress Sophia Bush, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and former football player Ashlyn Harris, poses for photographers as they arrives at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, Saturday, April 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

“Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.”

That was former President Barack Obama, in 2009, snapping back at Republicans who were very deep in the political wilderness at the time. 

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