states. he used while he was a businessman. he used on the campaign trail. he is using today. and, the reality is, a lot of people that voted for him new exactly what they were getting when they voted for him. and he won the presidency any way. i m not saying it makes it right or it makes it good. that s the reality. and i m glad that adam pointed out that this what he s describing in this piece, it is a very good, very well-written piece. it really shines a light on a really disturbing trend here. but the key is, it is a very, very small facet of trump voters. it is a very as he said, it s the very base of who he is. and he says it connects the base. i think it they are the loudest voices alice. a very small sub sect of his supporters. but what really connects trump supporters and republicans and conservatives is the policy. i think while there s a lot of hateful rhetoric and lot of hateful tone out there, what contacts the republicans i
that s not what it means to be american. for some reason i feel like you have to stand up to that and say this is not who we are. but because we get a bill passed we pat them on the back. that was the point i was i wanted to make. maybe adam or amanda can because there were, what, how many, 17 or 19 however many people up there on the stage with donald trump who would have probably had very similar, even if not more conservative legislative agendas than he had, but they didn t vote for them. they voted for their cruel person who demeans and diminishes people over someone who is going to do the exact same thing but doesn t speak. ted cruz is by far more conservative donald trump and would have appointed far more conservatives than donald trump. they didn t vote for him. he s a republican. you answer that, amanda. yeah. it was an intensely negative election. and instead of being an
well, the seniors agreed to get off the bus but were eventually able to vote later. so let s discuss now, back with me adam, alice, bakari and amanda. i couldn t believe this story when i read it. but bakari, what do you think when you saw the story? you know, what year is this? it s amazing to me the length that some individuals will go, whether or not we re talking about brian kemp in georgia or an organization like alec and voter id. to keep people from exercising their franchise. and i think that especially these voters who had to be pulled off the bus. they are of a generation who understands the value of the right to vote and the price paid and so i think that a lot of times my friends on the right, my republican friends on the right, play games with this franchise. but there is so much pain and blood and tears and sweat that go into these individuals of
that. the restaurant thing, ted cruz doesn t care about that. he knows he doesn t take off the senator hat when he goes to have dinner with his wife. like, it s uncomfortable to see. that said when mitch mcconnell is talking ability this backfiring, he s not talking about that. he s talking about the kavanaugh hearings where there were 20 million people, and tay saw protester after protester getting hauled out by the capitol police, interrupting a hearing a lot of people wanted to watch. so i think that s where mitch mcconnell feels they had some success because those hearings in particular, the protesters interrupting over and over again, that did have a galvanizing affect on the base. adam, do you think these kind of confrontations play right into the gop s hands? i m not losing sleepover it.
voter id. to keep people from exercising their franchise. and i think that especially these voters who had to be pulled off the bus. they are of a generation who understands the value of the right to vote and the price paid. and so i think that a lot of times my friends on the right, my republican friends on the right, play games with this franchise. but there is so much pain and blood and tears and sweat that go into these individuals of color in this generation having to get that right to vote. so that county clerk has another thing coming for her if she thinks they just going to go home. they re not. nothing is going to keep them from the polls. but this is the story that we need to be covering more than what s going on in donald trump s head. because we need to make sure that everyone has access to the ballot box. this is absurd. i mean, what year are we talking about? if you read the article, you would think it s 1963. adam, this is the same state