Joy Reid Blames Nikki Haley’s Third-Place Iowa Finish on Racism: She’s ‘Still a Brown Lady’ in a ‘Deeply Anti-Immigrant’ Party

Joy Reid determined that Nikki Haley has little to no chance of winning the Republican Party’s 2024 nomination after how much of the GOP’s xenophobia and racism has been exposed by Donald Trump.

Even though the former president had a landslide victory in the Iowa caucuses, Haley put on an air of confidence last night despite coming in third place behind Trump and Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL). During MSNBC’s live coverage of the caucuses, Reid spoke with her network colleagues about Haley’s chances going forward, and she doubted Haley’s ability to succeed by blaming bigotry within the GOP.

It’s the elephant in the room. She’s still a brown lady that’s got to try to win in a party that is deeply anti-immigrant, and which accepts the notion you can say immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country. She’s getting birthered by Donald Trump, and I don’t care how much the donor class likes her — which will ramp up a lot the better she does in New Hampshire — it’s still a challenge.

I don’t see how she becomes the nominee of that party with Donald Trump still around. I can’t picture it happening. Maybe it could happen. Ron DeSantis’ only argument for staying in it is he’s the white guy, that he can still make the appeal to white evangelicals.

Reid’s opinions were echoed by her MSNBC colleague Lawrence O’Donnell, who commented that with how many Republicans are siding with Trump and his claims about immigrants “poisoning the blood” of America, its an impossible obstacle for Haley to overcome as the daughter of Indian immigrants.

Watch above via MSNBC.