Watch as CNN reporter John Harwood makes the ridiculous claim that President Trump leads a political party that relies almost exclusively ...
Watch as CNN reporter John Harwood makes the ridiculous claim that President Trump leads a political party that relies almost exclusively on white votes.
John Harwood is a complete idiot.
For example in 2016 President Trump got 29% of the Hispanic vote. Are Hispanics white?
Partial transcript:
BOLDUAN: “I’m Kate Bolduan. Thanks so much for joining us for the next couple of hours. As the groundswell of calls for change grows, President Trump is showing no sign that he’s ready to adapt.
CNN has learned that a number of Trump advisers, from White House aides to lawmakers to business executives have encouraged the President to adapt his tone because of the reality on the ground and also because of the reality of his political standing right now.
Still, he refuses, and so more and more the President is increasingly on an island, out of step with where the country appears to be, moving on racial justice, including even Republicans, and out of step with the scientific facts of the Coronavirus pandemic.
There’s a lot to get to. Let’s start with CNN’s John Harwood, he joins me now from the White House. John, what are you hearing about how the president is responding to this pressure?”
HARWOOD: “Well, we can see how he’s responding, Kate. We saw it in Dallas at that roundtable yesterday, and what he’s doing is seeing this wave for change that is sweeping across public opinion and the country, black and white, and he’s pushing back against it.
The President is stuck in the world view that has characterized his life.
Racial conflict has been a big part of his life when he was in private business and as a political strategy, and now he leads a political party that relies almost exclusively on white votes.
And the base he leads within that party is the most racially conservative whites, the kind of people who think that discrimination against whites or excessive concern for equal rights is as much a problem as racism is.
So you saw him in that roundtable saying that we’re not going to solve this problem by accusing a bunch of good people of bigotry or on police when he was talking about the video of George Floyd’s murder.
He said that, well, people are going to react to that and say all police are bad.
They are not all bad. Of course, most Americans are taking the view that that indicates a problem, and the President said on this idea of radically changing police departments, ‘We’re not going to do that either.’”
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