American Conservative Union chair and Fox News contributor Matt Schlapp in a Wednesday appearance on Fox News' The Daily Briefing had a screaming meltdown about "the gender gap" after being challenged by former John Kerry strategist Mary Anne Marsh for making racist and sexist comparisons between how Democrats and Republicans select candidates.
"Democrats and certainly their delegate process, they think about it in terms of characteristics. 'What's your gender', to the extent they believe in gender," Schlapp said. "'What's your racial profile, what's your ethnicity?' That's where they're coming from." He predicted that Beto O'Rourke would not win the presidency if he ran because "he is a white guy." With his voice growing audibly more urgent, Schlapp insisted that Democrats want an African-American, Latino, or woman for president and as a result "50% of the country looks at the Democratic Party askance."
"Democrats actually nominate people that look like America versus the Republican Party who only nominate old white guys," Marsh replied, as Schlapp began shouting over her.
"You've got Donald Trump. good luck to you in 2020, I'm not sure he is going to make it to 2020," she laughed. "When you look at the people that got elected to this Congress, a lot of women and candidates of color, a lot of young people and that's what America looks like."
"You wonder why you have a gender gap with men," Schlapp shouted over her, but Marsh was undeterred.
"You have a bigger gender gap with women," she shot back. "That's your biggest problem is in 2020, women will not vote for Republicans."
