Juno News - Trump voters need to be taken seriously

Donald Trump is no longer the President of the United States, and Joe Biden is now the next president of the USA. What does this mean for Trump? Is this a vindication of everything he stood for? Does it mean that all those awful things people have said about him are all correct? And what does it mean for the millions of people who voted for him?

00:00:00.000 So right now it's looking like Donald Trump not going to be president of the United States

00:00:09.720 anymore. So what does this mean? Is this a firm repudiation of President Trump of everything

00:00:15.600 he stands for, of the past four years, of the things he's said and done? Does it mean that

00:00:20.480 all those awful things people said about him ad nauseum on cable news, the elites on social media,

00:00:26.000 that it's all correct, that he's a this and a that and so forth? Is that what this means?

00:00:31.040 Actually, I think when you look at the results, it means the exact opposite. That even though he may

00:00:36.720 not be prevailing and remaining in the White House, he's actually been validated in a certain sense.

00:00:42.160 What do I mean by that? Well, for starters, Donald Trump got 70 million votes, several million more

00:00:48.960 than he got in 2016, improving his vote count. Now, Joe Biden improved from Hillary Clinton

00:00:54.560 in 2016. Turnout in general was much larger and Joe Biden getting millions more of the popular vote

00:01:00.640 this time than Donald Trump did. But still, for Trump to improve on his vote count when he supposedly was

00:01:07.200 awful all these four years and he hated all these groups and all these groups hated him as well.

00:01:12.800 Wow. Improving your count and getting 70 million votes. 70 million white supremacists, that's a lot.

00:01:21.280 So says probably the commentators on CNN and so forth. Give me a break and give a little bit

00:01:28.000 of respect to these people who are voting for Donald Trump, the 70 million of them. Because when you break

00:01:33.520 it down in the exit polling, actually Donald Trump lost support from white males. That was the only group

00:01:39.440 that he actually lost support on. Proportionally, percentage-wise, he actually increased his support

00:01:44.800 with African-American voters, LGBT voters, Muslim voters. That's what the exit polling is showing.

00:01:50.560 It is quite something. And I think one of the main lessons here is it's important that the establishment

00:01:56.560 voices, the mainstream voices and so forth, that they don't approach a candidate that they don't

00:02:01.360 like or don't understand as if, well, this is some fringe candidate who's only ever going to get

00:02:06.320 single digits. Let's only talk about them in disparaging terms. And let's talk about their supporters

00:02:11.600 as if they are bad human beings. Because really what you're talking about is pretty much 50% of

00:02:18.000 the country, a diverse spectrum of individuals, your neighbors, your co-workers. And yet there was

00:02:24.240 widespread, massive contempt out there for anybody who would support the incumbent American president,

00:02:30.560 Donald Trump. That's really unfortunate. You don't like him. You think his policies are wrong. You

00:02:35.440 prefer Joe Biden. Fair enough. We live in a democracy. That's how these things roll. No big deal.

00:02:39.440 You know, have your views. Have your opinions. But to totally treat pretty much half of the electorate,

00:02:45.120 who you share your country with, with utter disdain, it's not good. And I hope people really

00:02:50.720 look at the exit polling data and at the raw numbers and, well, I hope that's what they take away from it.

Juno News - November 08, 2020

Trump voters need to be taken seriously

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