Former President Donald Trump is hollowing out the Republican coalition as candidates in his image sign up to represent the GOP all over the country, warned conservative attorney George Conway on MSNBC Wednesday — and it is going to have disastrous consequences for the party.
This comes as North Carolina Republicans chose Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson for the gubernatorial nominee — a candidate who has denied the Holocaust and waxed nostalgic for the era when women couldn't vote.
"The problem for Donald Trump, George, is Donald Trump picked a lot of these candidates before," said anchor Joy Reid. "You could say in Arizona, Pennsylvania, you know, you name it, Dr. Oz. They just lost and lost and lost, whether running for senate or governor. They run statewide. When you get out of just the MAGA base, generally people don't want them. Now they're doing it in again in North Carolina."
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"That's right," agreed Conway. "He created demand for more of these people. He created the demand for the Kari Lakes of the world and Lauren Boebert, for MTG and for this guy in North Carolina now. And then, you know, the conservative media absolutely juices that up. And what you've got is you've got smaller Republican, hardcore base that is becoming more and more isolated from reality and less and less capable of attracting the voters that one needs to win a general, national election. And we saw those two voters that we — that you showed, the two female North Carolina Nikki Haley voters."
"Yeah," said Reid.
"I mean, the point I was making before that break was that those — they may not show up for Donald Trump," Conway continued. "They're not going to be enthused about Donald Trump. Even if they say they can't vote for Biden ... and that's the thing. There's going to be a huge turnout difference and a large number of people who are going to flip because we're going to — they're going to be a lot of Republicans out this fall saying, Trump is dangerous, Trump is a psycho."
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