let's start this hour uh with President Biden's Easter Sunday message it was a solemn message that read this Jill and I send our warmest wishes to Christians around the world celebrating Easter Sunday Easter reminds us of the power of Hope and the promise of Christ's Resurrection As We Gather with loved ones we remember Jesus's sacrifice we pray for one another and cherish the blessing of the dawn of new possibilities and with Wars and conflict taking a toll on innocent lives around the world we
renew our commitment to work for peace security and dignity for all people from our family to yours Happy Easter and may God bless you beautiful uh unfortunately now I have to compare that to uh the Republican front honor basically Donald Trump who spent another religious holiday posting on Truth social 77 times sometimes unhinged sometimes nonsensical lots of all caps definitely very mean on Easter the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee went after his perceived enemies all day among his many
posts one in in all caps blasting the quote evil and sick prosecutors looking to hold him accountable for his alleged crimes he also shared two far-right news articles one titled the crucifixion of Donald Trump and the other calling him a miracle and the chosen one sent by God if you don't think this is a cult you might want to consider opening your mind a little bit here in another post Trump claimed his Florida home and Club is worth as much as $1.8 billion and this one highlighting a poll tha
t claims he would defeat former First Lady Michelle Obama in a general election matchup other things he did posted a picture of Joe Biden in a very dangerous ugly fashion that was on Friday I believe Chris Matthews let's talk about Trump's mean Easter messages and I'm curious especially as you know you look at Pennsylvania and you look at these swing States and you look at Trump supporters and you look at who they're supporting they blindly support a man who was found liable of sexual assault by
a jury of his peers not a crooked justice system as he says same with how much he needs to pay the woman who a judge says he basically raped a jury decided how much he should pay of his peers people who really had to look at him and what he did and what he said a man I don't know I mean we could randomly pick from a thousand things who took hundreds thousands of documents many of them classified evidence showing that he incriminated his own people his own employees trying to hide them a man who
told people to go to the capital on January 6 it would be wild then go there go there I'll see you there and there are people serving time for him who he plans to free if he wins the presidency he plans to free them and and and yet he goes to the funeral of a cop um politicizes it over the weekend but you know cops died on January 6th I have so many answers this man well but this man's daily plan Chris is to hurt people is to tear them down for himself to fight for himself on on Easter think ab
out the message Jo divid and send the message perhaps if you went to church over Easter you might have heard one that was similar about Easter being a day of renewal a day where you have a a solemn moment to look at your relationship with God and I'm just curious with this man whose every day is a miserable March toward what God-fearing Christians would call hell okay by his actions why is this lost on people who love Jesus and follow the message of Jesus well I think a couple of things I was th
inking back to when Ronald Reagan uh the once beloved Republican leader and now in second place to Donald Trump apparently back when he was shot and nearly killed in 1981 the leader of the opposition who was the Speaker of the House tip O'Neal went to see him in the hospital George Washington Hospital and he knelt down next to Reagan and they prayed the 23rd psalm together the Lord is my shepherd this presidential candidate Donald Trump is saying I am the shepherd I'm him I'm God it's astounding
to me it's astounding to me that he can talk like this it's blasphemy as Moren D said in the Times Yes New York Times yesterday that's how he talks now I just saw some numbers I've been away for a couple weeks in Vietnam uh teaching over there but I have to tell you a couple things have finally come to my mind one is when I was up there in New Hampshire my 10th primary up there I saw a lot of really poor people waiting in line for two hours to see Donald Trump really poor people white people in
most cases and I said what's going on here and I don't know these are the crust tabs relate or why it relates but they really want this guy to be their president again and then I saw the Florida Atlantic University poll that came out in March and it pointed out that the only economic group in the country that likes Trump is under 50,000 a year not 50 to 100 not above 100 only people below 50,000 I can't put it all together but it's maybe people are hard up people have a grievance against Societ
y because things Society has been tough on them white hispanic black all kinds of people below 50,000 a year are for Trump somebody's got to get that into their heads if that's what's going on here and somebody's got to start thinking about why Trump is appealing to those people who are hard up and people like in White House like rete and Mike Don andita Dunn somebody in that big smart group of anonymous people have going to start thinking about who they're up against Trump has been able to wire
himself into people of basic needs who live out there are not rich they're not all go in the Florida to get the tax break they're not like that crowd or that crowd really is out there too that crowd's going to benefit from these poor people the people looking to get a tax break from Trump they're going to get they're going to benefit from that the people below in the lower economic groups they're they're just going to get left out and it's so clear so Democrats have got to get to the people the
y've always rooted for the people at the bottom the people with through grievance they've always said we're for those people they got to start rooting for them somehow obviously and that means Biden has got to start talking to them and it's not happening yet Trump's talking to them as somebody once said of FDR I didn't know him but he knew me Trump knows those people when he was up there in in New Hampshire I heard him say something my people have figured out that I should come to this area loni
a because there's a lot of poor people and he said it's the way he did remember remember back in 2016 when he beat Hillary he went to Erie and he went to wilksboro the lern county he knew where his Hillary was stuck down at Philly he knew where he was going I think people like David Urban who was running his campaign last time they know where to advance him they're going to go out there and Advance him to the right places and I tell you it's fasc I don't know if the Democrats have really thought
through this campaign and what they're up against this guy's calling himself God God thou sht not have strange got yeah and if he can get away with that then he is truly a cult and people going to be taught I mean thought through it with them somebody's got to start talking to people and saying them this guy is not for real as a secular leader he's not Jesus Chris the way he seems to do it the way he seems to do it is by saying you're under siege and I'm under siege now I'm under siege because
the state is coming after me and you may be under siege for a whole load of other reasons but this concept of being victimized seems to carry a long way and in those Evangelical communities or you know over the course of Easter weekend you're right he does sort of portray himself as a Messianic religious figure but where are the moderate non-trump Christians standing up and saying hold on a second this is not a religion in which we worship any we worship God we don't worship country we don't eve
n worship America that's not the basis of the Christian religion we don't we certain don't worship an individual so where are those Christian leaders who think that what is happening in this slightly kind of cult-like world that Trump has built around himself with followers who flock to churches for him every weekend and have done so over Easter where where are they well I look at Nikki Haley's vote wherever Nikki Hy did well usually in the more moderate areas so there is a geographic reality to
this if you live in a neighborhood the sort of moderate Republican maybe they just like lower taxes or something but they're not crazy you're going to get Hy votes uh I think that's true so it's a lot to do with geography there's 50 some counties in Pennsylvania you mentioned M that are all low income people my brother ran for Statewide office and I got to tell you when you go around your R there's only the doctor in ten or a couple other people have any money they just don't have any money and
it's just regular America they're not in the big cities they're not in silic Silicon Valley they're regular people out there with uh going to church on Sunday and Trump is getting to them in that cultish way and I think he's got to get out Donald Trump has got to get out there and meet those people he's got to find them back they're puddling out there it's I notice if you live in the suburbs you're probably going to vote for Biden because you don't like the abortion thing because it's severe he
wants to punish women we know he's already said so U but I think out there in the country it's going to about 68% to 70% it's going up to about 75% it's in a dangerous territory to win States like Pennsylvania Trump is Biden has got to figure this thing out with I don't know if the people were smart enough to do it but I think they've got to get smarter this is really a hard hard one it's and paying for advertising on television is not going to do it you cannot buy this election the people have
a direct personal relationship with the candidates for president Trump and Biden and it's very personal and and the one guy's appealing to them on those primitive basis that I'm your God worship me and the other guy's trying to argue you know Obamacare and things like that and infrastructure and it's harder but politics should be a little hard hey everyone MSNBC has a new and improved app you'll get real alerts and Analysis live blogs in-depth essays video highlights and the best 2024 election
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