Pundit George Conway, an outspoken Republican critic of President-elect Trump, said he’s not taking the election results “as badly as people might think.”
“The disturbing thing about this election isn’t new, and that sort of maybe is why I’m not taking this as badly as people might think,” Conway said on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.”
Conway argued that there always would have been 40 percent to 45 percent of the country who would have voted for Trump anyway.
“They may tell you ‘oh, it’s the price of eggs,’ but if it weren’t that, it would be … something else,” Conway said.
He noted that some votes for Trump were for “legitimate” reasons, like a swing state voter impacted by inflation, for example.
Conway said another issue at play among Trump’s core voting group is where they get their information from.
“Among the 40 something percent who were going to be there no matter what, they consume an information diet that is self-selected in a way that … is addictive,” he said, adding, “they don’t know basic things about what Trump has done. Whenever Trump says something crazy and starts to perform vulgar acts on a microphone, they change the channel.”
As Democrats begin to point fingers and pick up the pieces after their brutal election losses, many are wondering how they lost so many swing voters and split-ticket voters.
Conway argued that in this election, “only a certain number of people matter” and Washington is left “debating how those people move back and forth and why.”
