During an appearance on MSNBC, columnist Jennifer Rubin — a conservative until Donald Trump came along — pointed to the former president's latest "inanities" delivered in rally speeches and went so far as to call the presumptive GOP presidential nominee a "crackpot."
Speaking with host Ali Velshi, the opinion columnist was asked, "You just published a piece for the Washington Post this morning, titled 'Four ways Biden can make inroads with anti-Trump Republicans.' Talk to me about those."
"There are millions of Republicans out there who supported Nikki Haley and understood her message that Trump is a crackpot. He's dangerous and he is a crackpot, and we saw more into that this weekend when his speech was filled with these inanities and, really, mental and verbal pratfalls," she began.
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"But nevertheless there are millions of Republicans, so how does [Joe] Biden appeal to them?," she continued. "And he doesn't have to become a Republican, he just has to stress issues which really has resonance with those people."
She later added, "I think Biden needs to be a bit tougher. Let's start calling Trump what he is which is an adjudicated rapist, an adjudicated liar. That was the result of the E. Jean Carroll verdicts, and I think the language has to get sharper. We have to remind voters, including progressives, just what Donald Trump is going on about."
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