Former RNC Chair: Trump Has Spoken To America’s ‘Racist Underbelly’

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele makes his remarks during a Republican National Committee Winter Meeting in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Michael Steele, former Republican National Committee chair and lieutenant governor of Maryland, told Buzzfeed News on Friday morning that he will not vote for Donald Trump, citing the Republican nominee’s appeal to racists.

At a dinner for the magazine Mother Jones, Steele told Buzzfeed News that Trump has “captured that racist underbelly, that frustration, that angry underbelly of American life and gave voice to that.”

“I will not be voting for Clinton,” he said. “I will not be voting for Trump either.”

Steele said that Trump does not represent the whole Republican party and that he was “damn near puking during the debates.”

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  1. Point 1: Michel Steele was at a dinner for Mother Jones? Wow.

    Point 2: So pretty much much Mr. Steele is agreeing with Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” line.

  2. But he still stays in the Klan Old Party…

  3. Steele said that Trump does not represent the whole Republican party and that he was “damn near puking during the debates.”

    Damn, everybody knew that tuna salad had been sitting out for several hours before the buffet line even opened. C’mon, Mikey, get a clue!

  4. Man.

    All this piling on has me dumbfounded. EVERYONE hates him.

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