Morning Joe Contributor Trashes Republican Voters: They Are The ‘Real Problem,’ Not the Party

MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch trashed Republican voters as “the real problem” in discussion around former President Donald Trump’s popularity in the polls.

Appearing on Thursday’s Morning Joe to discuss the Republican Party’s centering around presidential nominee Trump ahead of his Capitol Hill meeting with senior GOP lawmakers, Deutsch did not hold back.

“The real problem is not the party itself, it’s the voters who are subscribing to the party – 74 million of them last time around,” Deutsch said.

Bolstering his take that the Republican Party itself is not a problem, he continued: “This time, Trump is ahead in the polls, not by a lot. The real question and the thing that’s the most troubling, and I know a lot of these Trump voters, is the party speaks for itself. They’re transparent. We see it.”

“Other than Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney, I don’t think — and now you saw Paul Ryan —I don’t think there is a Republican that has spoken outside of or against their fearless leader,” he said, adding, “So what is it about, at this point, half the country that says, ‘that’s my party, I’ll vote for that, that works for me’? That’s the troubling part. It’s beyond the party. It’s the voters that are subscribing to it. That keeps me up at night.”

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