Actor Jeff Daniels Tells MSNBC He Hopes ‘Flyover Country’ Will See Trump Talks Down To Them And Vote Biden ‘Even Though He’s Old’

Hollywood actor Jeff Daniels claimed that voters living in “flyover states” need to realize former President Donald Trump is talking down to them.

Daniels joined MSNBC Morning Joe on Friday to promote his latest Netflix show A Man in Full, where he discussed important issues for Midwest voters in the upcoming November election.

Jonathan Lemire asked Daniels how income class will play a part in the showdown between President Joe Biden and Trump, as well as if Michigan will decide the outcome.

The actor responded that voters in the Midwest need to realize that Trump think they are “stupid” by talking down to them and “lying to us.”

LEMIRE: How do you see all of these issues connected, including class shaping how voters go to the polls in what’s going to be a very tight race?

DANIELS: Well class, yes, but what stretches over class, I think, is decency and honesty and values and principles. I mean, we live in the Midwest. We don’t necessarily take New York and L.A. as seriously as New York and L.A. takes itself. You know, I hate to tell you.

But we’re flyover country, and we’re always, we got a chip on our shoulder about that. And we get – we’re not as stupid as people like Trump in particular think we are. He talks down to us. He talks past us. He lies to us. And but we get it.

And it’s really not the people on the right. They’re gonna stay there, you know. Okay, terrific. Class or no class, they’re going to stay there. The left’s going to stay on the left. It’s that 20%, 15% in the middle, the Reagan Democrats, the moderate Republicans who are going, ‘I’m over Trump, maybe Nikki Haley, I’m over. Okay, DeSant– Okay, get me somebody.’

But basically, I think even the middle of the country, even Michigan is watching the Republican Party destroy itself. Yeah.

And and but there is a there are two wars going on. I see I see the war within the Republican Party, which we’re, you know, we’re all standing back going, you know, knock yourselves out. And then there’s the war for democracy, which is going on right now and it’s taking on — It’s on the internet, it’s on social media, it’s on people not listening anymore. But that war is going to culminate in November.

And I think that’s when the voters – and I would be – I’m cautiously optimistic that the people in the middle, the people in states like Michigan, are going to go, ‘you know what? We’re better than this. I’m going to vote for Biden, even though he’s old, which also translates into wise and wisdom, which we may need right now because the election I really want to vote on is the one in 2028, when people are now running with the future.’ All those folks.

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.