Jeremy Peters on Trump, GOP Claims of Violence If Dems Win: ‘1968 All Over Again,’ ‘Nixonian Dystopia’

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SCARBOROUGH: "So President Trump is warning of violence if Republicans lose the midterm elections. NBC News has reviewed the excerpts of the president's closed-door meeting with evangelical leaders Monday night. An he said if the GOP loses in November, quote, 'They will overturn everything that we’ve done and they’ll do it quickly and violently.' I’ll say that again — they will do it quickly and they will do it violently. Jeremy Peters, this sounds an awful lot like what you -- you were writing about a couple of weeks back when you said violence actually seems to permeate so many of these GOP ads. Their messages and the messaging is so grim about violence, crimes, drugs, and -- and now you have the president of the United States actually warning evangelicals that if Democrats win, they will resort to violence."
PETERS: "It’s like it’s 1968 all over again, Joe, in some of these Republican ads. It's this Nixonian dystopia that you see where violent mobs are raging in the streets and the added element here, of course, is illegal immigration. And the argument that they’re making is Democrats will abolish ICE, they will make your communities less safe, they will allow people like Mollie Tibbetts, the college student in Iowa to be murdered. This is the kind of chaos they will bring."