*Donald Trump’s hold on conservative America continues to be the dominant story in politics. And Joy Reid knows it.
So much so that the MSNBC personality and political analyst gave her thoughts on who exactly makes up the majority of the Republican presidential hopeful’s political fan base before Trump took the stage for a campaign rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Ala. Friday evening (Aug. 21).
“I think what you have with Trump, and what I see as his base, is not just the far-right, but the right,” Reid expressed to “Hardball” host Chris Matthews, “and it’s a lot of Republicans who are disgruntled with the Republican Party.”
Expanding on her point, Reid touched on a racial factor that may be present with a lot of Trump’s supporters.
“It’s white Republicans. It’s mostly white male Republicans and it’s basically white Americans who feel left out of Obama’s America; who are peeved with the fact that their preferred party can’t seem to beat Obama; and who want to hear a guy be able to stand up and be as politically incorrect as they can’t be,” she stated. “They’d get fired from their jobs if they put on Facebook some of the things Trump said. But here’s a guy who can say what he wants to. Be a man’s man and get out there and be the kind of Ronald Reaganesque kind of America where we (do) what we want, said what we want, pushed the world around, and told them to go to hell if we wanted to.”
To see Reid’s chat with Matthews, check out the video below, via MSNBC:
Adding fuel to Reid’s commentary is the reaction Trump got at the Alabama rally. According to media sources, Trump supporters screamed “White Power” at the event asTrump spoke about illegal immigration.
The comment came after the business mogul was greeted with cheers from the excited crowd as he arrived at Ladd-Peebles Stadium.
AL.com mentioned a man who voiced a desire for the border to become a “vacation spot” where a bounty would be placed on immigrants.
“Hopefully, he’s going to sit there and say, ‘When I become elected president, what we’re going to do is we’re going to make the border a vacation spot, it’s going to cost you $25 for a permit, and then you get $50 for every confirmed kill,’” a man named Jim Sherota told a reporter for the site. “That’d be one nice thing.”
The 53-year-old apparently fell back on his remarks as he reportedly said later that he was joking, AL.com added.
To see footage of the “White Power” call out, check out the video below:
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