Speaking with host Antonia Hylton on Wednesday afternoon, MS NOW’s Mychael Schnell pointed out that many Republicans who voted to oust Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) were woefully ignorant about the reasons for voting for his opponent and cast their votes purely based on the president's endorsement.
Reporting from Kentucky about the pivotal election that will likely hand Massie’s House seat to political neophyte Ed Gallrein, Schnell said that there was a great deal of misinformation that formed voters’ decisions, including a belief that Massie had voted to impeach Trump which is not true.
As she told Hylton, “I was at a polling place yesterday here in Hebron, Kentucky, and I was asking a number of voters, 'Why are you supporting Gallrein?' And they said, well, it's because I don't support Thomas Massie. I don't like what he's done. I don't like the votes he's taken. My next question was, ‘Okay, which vote was most problematic for you? What drew the most criticism from you and these voters?’ A number of them couldn't name anything. In fact, I heard from one voter who said they didn't like that Thomas Massie supported Trump's impeachment. That's not true, Thomas Massie didn't vote to impeach President Trump.”
“So it just showed that at the end of the day, regardless of any policy disputes that Gallrein had with Thomas Massie or Massie had with President Trump, it didn't matter,” she added. “What it all came back to was the fact that Gallrein was backed by President Trump. Take a listen to some of the voters I had spoken to. Again, these are Gallrein voters making it very clear the reason why they were with him was because of Donald Trump.”
“I'm not real —I don't like his personality at all,” an elderly woman identified as Melissa Eschan stated before confessing, “But that's who Trump told me to vote for. So that's what I'm doing.”
Voter Kim Doss told Schnell, “I'm not just, you know, all whatever Trump says kind of person, but you know, usually what his way of thinking is my way of thinking.”
Asked about the false tale of Massie voting to impeach Trump, and her correcting them, Schnell reported, “It sort of left them at a loss for words. There was that one woman who I had spoken to who mentioned impeachment and I said, Thomas Massie didn't support President Trump's impeachment. Other than that, what one of his policy decisions, policy proposals, stances or votes upset you the most? And she didn't — she was at a loss for words, she didn't have an answer. And then I said, ‘Well, did President Trump's endorsement weigh heavily on your decision?’ That was where she was emphatic, where she said, ‘Yes, I agree with the president. I take my cues from the president.’”
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