CNN‘s VanJones He reacted sharply and deeply concerned when he realized Donald Trump was on the verge of beating Kamala Harris and regain the presidency.

The cable news commentator was live during the network’s election coverage panel Tuesday night, calling Trump’s return to power a “nightmare” and showing particular empathy for Black women who support Harris, as well as immigrants and transgender youth.

“I’m thinking about the people who are suffering tonight, who are not part of anyone’s elite.” Jones said. “There are African American women who have been trying to dream big for the last few months and have known little about the humiliation and the crushing of their economic dreams. And tonight they trade a lot of hope for a lot of pain. And they were hoping that maybe this time one of them would be deemed worthy. And once again they face rejection, and it hurts. They thought that tomorrow morning they would walk with their shoulders slightly back, maybe they would be able to breathe for the first time and feel like they belonged somewhere. “They’ve done everything they know how to do, and it’s going to be harder than it should be tomorrow to keep their heads up.”

Jones continued: “And they’re not the only people hurting tonight. If you are trans or the parent of a trans child, your child’s face Used as a springboard to power for someone and it doesn’t feel good. Tomorrow there will be people; We will distribute clothes to undocumented dry cleaners (immigrants). Tomorrow there will be people brushing your teeth, undocumented, and terrified tonight. So it’s easy to brush it off – ‘Oh, look at the elites, they’re going to get their comeuppance.’ It’s not the elites who will pay the price. These are the people who woke up this morning with a dream and went to bed with a nightmare, and these people deserve to be respected, embraced and talked to. These are the people who will pay the price no matter what. Donald Trump decides to do it.”

The rest of the CNN panel remained respectfully silent during Jones’ comments.

Comments come like this Hollywood celebrities do the same They are reacting to Trump’s victory. don’t look up filmmaker Adam McKay wrote: “Biden will lie about his mental health for 2 years, refuse to hold an open convention for a new candidate, make no mention of public health care, and embrace fracking, spend a year with the Cheneys and Gaza Who could have predicted that children would be slaughtered? Won’t it be a winning strategy? Anyone with half a brain. But I thought the whole point of liberals was to be smart? Isn’t it so? In fact, they are blindly applauding the parade of puny optics. New York Times Modern Dem Party fonts? At the very least, it’s time for dusty hackers and careerists to thoroughly ruffle their post-election feathers and blame Russia and third-party candidates. This will fix things.

Meanwhile Daily Showelection night special visibly disappointed Jon Stewart It ended with a message of hope and reassurance: “I promise you, this is not the end.”

Harris is expected to deliver the commencement speech at her alma mater, Howard University, later Wednesday.