Republican voters who want Donald Trump in the White House are a boon from the heavens, Rachel Maddow told Seth Myers on his late-night talk show Wednesday.
“Republican voters want Donald Trump more than they want the 40 other people running. That is a gift from God in terms of having this be my job,” Maddow said.
There are 21 candidates currently competing for the 2016 presidency — 16 Republicans and five Democrats.
“I love the idea that this is a stunt and I love the idea that he’s just a celebrity and this isn’t actually a political campaign,” she said on ‘Late Night with Seth Myers.’
“He’s really running and Republicans really like him,” she said.
Stunt or no, Trump is even leading in some polls. His placement at the top might guarantee him a spot in the first GOP debate, which will be held in Cleveland in August, and in which only the leading 10 Republican candidates will be invited to participate.
“In a real debate, guys like Donald Trump will lose the debate and therefore lose support. If you end up artificially curtailing the field, a guy like that is going to win in part just on name recognition and celebrity,” she said on the show.
Watch the video from Late Night with Seth Myers:
Okay, I try to give TPM the benefit of the doubt, because it’s a solid, independent website, and I love the people on the comments section. But was this “story” really worth writing about? There has to be a genocide happening some place in the world, a natural disaster, something much more worthy than this particular story. Here, Man stubs his toes…says it hurt. That is much more newsworthy than this story.
Do not mistake TPM for a news site. It is really a popcorn distribution franchise, providing free entertainment while the concession stand makes the profit.
TPM has posted 26 articles so far today and 11 of them are about Trump. Someone at TPM is jonesing hard for Donald Trump.
So, a little off topic, but the MSM continues to predict which of the Donald’s ludicrous statements will prove his undoing. I was chatting with a politically involved acquaintance and raised that issue, and his response was “Trump’s fans all watch Fox News exclusively”. This is the kind of stuff Fox’s audience gets all day long, every day. There’s a ring of truth here. How could anyone who watches Hannity, O’Reilly, “Fox and Friends”, and the other panels possibly rear up at Trump and say, “Whoa, that’s over the top”?
With 10 participants in a one hour debate, each will get about 5 minutes if the moderator takes very little time and does a good job. With 16 they’d each get less than 3 minutes. Not enough time to get any insight into any of them. Why not just make another chainsaw ad instead?