Juno News - Trump voters need to be taken seriously

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