Following Donald Trump's victory, liberals across the spectrum -- be they pundits, analysts, pollsters or lawmakers -- will attempt to explain how and why the GOP nominee broke the Blue wall and secured a mandate for governing the country for (at least) the next four years. Many will attempt to cite sophisticated metrics, even though the answer couldn't be more obvious. 

Actually, for a good article explaining why Trump won, see here. 

Barack Obama's White House, however, is playing dumb. After all, the last thing the administration wants to do is admit that Trump's triumph is a repudiation of it and everyone who stands with it. 

To that end, when asked at a press conference Wednesday about the reasons for Trump's victory, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said it's "just too early to tell."  CNSNews reports: 

"[T]he results of the election are not even 12 hours old, and I think it is far too early, at least for me, to discern exactly what message the voters were trying to send last night," Josh Earnest told reporters on Wednesday.

"There certainly is a lot of speculation about what that may have been. Most of that speculation emanates from people who predicted a very different result last night. So that's the essence of punditry -- nothing wrong with that, but it is why I think it's going to require more than 12 hours of consideration and investigation to get to the bottom of what was actually motivating so many people who cast votes at the polls yesterday."

Right. So since Earnest was playing coy, he was directly asked by a reporter if Trump's victory was a rejection of Obama, specifically, to which the outgoing president's spokesperson said,  "I don't know that anybody has the direct answer to that question now."

He then touted Clinton's popular vote count as underscoring "the depth of support and enthusiasm for her message and for her campaign."

Never mind the fact that Trump flipped reliably Blue States and that Clinton's popular vote count emanates more from large city dwellers in city centers like New York, San Francisco, L.A. and Chicago
 

"The other thing that happens to be true is there are a lot of people, again the math requires this, who voted for Barack Obama in 2008, who voted for his reelection in 2012, and voted for Donald Trump in 2016. And I think it's -- I don't have an explanation for that, to put it bluntly.

"But I think certainly all of your networks and all of you are going to spend some time pondering that question; spending some time looking at the returns; looking at the exit polls; and maybe even spending some time in some of those communities across the country where Mr. Trump -- President-elect Trump -- enjoyed such strong support -- support that exceeded the expectations of everybody, apparently even exceeded the expectations of the Trump campaign."
 

Earnest reminded us all that Obama is still in office until January 20 and that he will be ramming through as much as he can in what short time remains.