MSNBC Can’t Find Anyone In King’s District To Defend Rape, Incest Remarks

BOONE, IA - AUGUST 13: U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) speaks during a town hall meeting at the Ericson Public Library on August 13, 2019 in Boone, Iowa. Steve King, who was stripped of House committee assignments earlie... BOONE, IA - AUGUST 13: U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) speaks during a town hall meeting at the Ericson Public Library on August 13, 2019 in Boone, Iowa. Steve King, who was stripped of House committee assignments earlier this year after making racist comments spoke about immigration and the U.S. and Mexico border. (Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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MSNBC sent reporter Josh Lederman to Fort Dodge, Iowa, part of Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA) home district, to search far and wide for someone, anyone, who might defend the lawmaker’s latest disturbing remarks.

“So far, we have not been able to find anybody,” he said.

“The collective reaction has been a deep sigh,” Lederman told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle after he spent the morning interviewing constituents. “People are tired of this. They’ve heard these kind of comments from Steve King before. They’re not happy about the way that it represents Iowa to the rest of the country.”

The network played clips from interviews with Iowans, one calling on King to either “resign or people should fire him,” and another admitting “we’re getting laughed at” over the congressman’s remarks.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has already called on the congressman — who argued there wouldn’t be much left of the world population if people born out of rape or incest were pulled out of the population pool — to resign, a move that, as Lederman notes would actually be detrimental to Democrats hoping to flip the seat. King only won by a few percentage points last election and already has a Republican challenger.

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  1. Depose the King!

  2. Please. King could plow over their family members on his John Deere, and I’m fairly certain western iowans would vote for him directly afterwards, wearing their Hillary for Prison shirts and feeling deeply, personally threatened by Benghazi or her emails
    or something.

  3. My sister and her husband live in king’s district and of course despise him (they are most definitely not republikkkans). They’re extremely happy that he looks to be a goner one way or the other.

    Hopefully he won’t resign, and the fascistgoopers will be stuck with him as their candidate in '20. A flip for the D’s.

  4. He’s gonna need the racist vote to win again, so he might as well target the incel demographic too.

  5. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    I am more than ready for this particular deplorable to be consigned to the shithole of history. He should be every bit as welcome in polite society as Roy Moore, refused service at the local McDonald’s.

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