‘Thumbs up’: Ronald Reagan's son says dad would think democracy is in ‘good shape’

Former President Ronald Reagan’s oldest son downplayed broad concerns about democracy raised by Democrats and other opponents of Donald Trump as the country awaits his return to the White House during an interview with CNN on Monday.

“I would think he would think it's in good shape,” Michael Reagan, a Republican strategist and Newsmax columnist, told CNN’s Jake Tapper in a Veterans Day appearance on the network. The assessment came after Tapper asked Reagan what he believed his father would think about the present state of the U.S. democracy.

“In fact, the voters went out and they voted their conscience, they voted how they wanted to vote, and their votes were counted,” he said, adding: “I think that's very important, that's how he looked at democracy.”

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“And so, he would give a thumbs up to what happened – no matter who won on Tuesday – he would look at it and say, ‘Listen, this is what our democracy's all about, every four years, we get a chance to make choices who is going to be the President of the United States and lead our country forward.’ So, yes. he would have been thumbs up for democracy and what happened on Tuesday.”

Reagan, who founded the Reagan Legacy Foundation, later added that his late father “would look at what’s going on around in the world today and say, ‘It really needs leadership in America.’”

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