Priebus to ABC This Week Panel: People Want A Bigger Middle Finger in 2024 Than They Did in 2016

MRC Latino | December 17, 2023
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JON KARL: I mean, Reince, I remember you as RNC chair kind of fighting so hard to get him to condemn David Duke when David Duke endorsed him. And I remember you in the White House trying to, you know, keep him within the guardrails. Do you worry that, you know, as he rushes towards this nomination, that he's going off those -- into those places you tried to keep him from going? 

REINCE PRIEBUS: Um, not particularly because I think that -- I think you're all misreading the electorate. I think that the electorate is not looking for less blood. I think they're looking for more blood. I think that people are more angry about crime than they've ever been before. I think they're more angry about the border, the fentanyl, the sanctuary cities, the boys competing against girls in sports. School is out of control. I think- as I’ve said before, people are looking for a bigger middle finger this time than they were in 2016, and I think you’re… 

KARL: So no matter how outrageous -- 

PRIEBUS: …you're misreading this. People are angry, and they-- and on the other side, you know, you've got President Biden who's losing young voters, who's losing black voters. The polling couldn't be worse, and unlike Barack Obama in 2011, Democrats would have walked over glass for Barack Obama. Democrats today, they say 75%, we wish we had a different candidate. So-- it matters who you're running against too, and it also matters what the state of the country is, and this is a perfect storm.