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During coverage of the Iowa caucus last night, MSNBC host Joy Reid complained about the role of demographics in the results, saying white Christians were “overrepresented.”
It was a shocking racist comment on a day meant to celebrate the dream of Martin Luther King Jr.
There's not much mystery in the fact that Reid's main issue is that former President Donald Trump won the caucus in dominant fashion.
Networks of all stripes were stunned by the speed and breadth of Trump's victory. Even CNN was practically in no good shape when it announced the results within minutes.
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Joy Reid is unhappy with white Christians
Reid claimed that Trump's victory over former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is a sign that voters in Iowa are too white and too Christian.
Haley came in third place with 19.1% of the vote, behind Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (21.2%) and of course Trump (51.0%). It was a blast by all accounts. Trump won every county except Johnson County, where Haley carried him by one vote.
Enter Reid, who offers what MSNBC executives seem to consider as intelligent analysis.
“I feel like the important data point…is that these are white Christians,” she said. “This state is overrepresented by white Christians who will be in the caucuses.”
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Reid's constant rant against white Christians
Reid's comment also suggested that white Christians in Iowa are racist, hence Trump's dominant victory over Haley and biotech engineer Vivek Ramaswamy.
“When you believe that God gave you this country, that it is yours, and that everyone who is not a white conservative Christian is a fraudulent American. He is less–a less realistic American. “You don't care about electability,” she claimed. “You care about what God has given you.”
Can you simply imagine the chaos and lost careers that would lead to a Fox News or Newsmax anchor suggesting that Biden and Kamala Harris won New York or California because black voters are overrepresented?
Or if they addressed areas in blue states that were majority black as “too black?”
As if that wasn't enough, Reed also suggested that “white evangelical Christians” in Iowa want minorities to “bow down” to them.
No, we're not kidding.
“They are not trying to convince people and win them over through politics,” she said. “What they say is: We own this country, and everyone will bow down to us.”
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