why is that? you know, it s very interesting. he has had such a loyal base of christian conservative republicans in his western iowa district. and what is happening is some of those very same christian conservative republicans are taking great offense now at the way he s talking about immigrants because some of them have adopted children from other countries. and well, steve king makes these remarks about we can t preserve our western civilization with other people s babies that s now very offensive to them because it hits them where they live in their homes. so you know, i think that there are a lot of decent people who live in his district who have just been profoundly misguided by his rhetoric, people who have not had a lot of contact with people of color or immigrants before and now they re not quite sure whether to he s very good at stoking fears and they re not quite sure how to think about their neighbors
voters who say they re now supporting democratic congressman j.d. shelton. why is that? you know, it s very interesting. he has had such a loyal base of christian conservative republicans in his western iowa district. and what is happening is some of those very same christian conservative republicans are take great offense now at the way he s talking about immigrants because some of them have adopted children from other countries. and when steve king makes these remarks about we can t preserve our western civilization with other people s babies that s now very offensive to them because it hits them where they live, in their homes. so i think there are a lost decent people who live in his district who have just been profoundly misguide by his rhetoric, people who have not had a lot of contact with people of color or immigrants before
anymore. and the irony of this is that western iowa s towns would be emptied out if it wasn t for immigrants and there there would be nobody to work in the meat packing plants. interesting. so they have this incredible dependence on immigrant labor and on immigrants rebuilding small communities, populating the schools, putting in small businesses, all of that, and yeyet king continually tries to say things like mexicans don t have the same values, are mostly drug runners involved in crimes. he said he wanted immigrants to assimilate to american culture and not try to reverse it. we talked about shulten. is he outraising king. they took in $800,000 from 24,000 individual donors in 7 hours. that is really astonishing. he s winning more newspaper endorsements.
i spent time touring his western iowa district to see where his voters are at and see if they re still as committed to him. he has rwon past races by 24 points. now a pollster finds just a one-point difference between them and steve king himself is saying there s an 18-point difference. but what i am noticing is a difference in the way people in his district are talking about them and this is very significant because he has relied for a long time on appeasing white christians and keeping them happy by the fact that he s always very anti-abortion and will always vote against any anti-abortion measure. now some of those same white christians have adopted children from other countries and they re really getting tired of his rhetoric about we can t keep our civilization going with other people s babies. some of these adoptive mothers are saying, wait a minute, these are our babies, we re raising