Ben Jealous: We Have to Take Trump ‘Very, Very Seriously’

‘I’ve said time and time again that when you have a conservative celebrity, people always say they’re a joke, and they often win’

JEALOUS: Yes. I’ve said time and time again that when you have a conservative celebrity, people always say they’re a joke, and they often win. I mean, you can go all the way back to Ronald Reagan, go back to Gopher, who ran for congress, Fred Grandy. You can go back to Jesse 'The Body' Ventura, Arnold Schwarzenegger. You know, we thought in California...
BAUER: Great point.
JEALOUS: ... that Cruz Bustamante would clean Schwarzenegger’s clock because he will be the first Latino governor. It didn’t work out that way.
TAPPER: Yes.
JEALOUS: So, we have to take him very, very seriously.

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