MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Monday defended going after RNC Chair Reince Priebus and accusing the GOP of “playing the race card” to defeat President Obama.
“It is obvious that this is something I care passionately about: race was abused by white politicians in my lifetime, including Reagan,” Matthews told Politico. “For someone to come on the program and deny that this is part of their process, I couldn’t take that. This is something I really, deeply believe in. We grew up in a country where appeals to race have been awful, terrible. This language — we are beyond this. It had to be called out.”
Watch Matthews’ exchange with Priebus:
