Reid: Republican Voters Don’t Vote Based on Economics, ‘They’re Voting on Race’

EXCERPT:

REID: "And I'm so glad you said that, because Chris Hayes, I think, made a really excellent point that you're seeing the sort of disconnect between a president that is a white working-class guy himself and that keeps doing all of these things that disproportionately benefit white working-class Americans in red states, and their reaction to him is they hate him more. Like, the more he does — and it is because the most economically vulnerable voters tend to be young voters who tend to be more voters of color. They are economically vulnerable and they tend to hold the president to account if they can't afford their lives or can't pay their student loans. They vote that way. But Republican voters don’t vote that way. They don’t vote based on economics or based on the benefits they are getting economically from the president. They are increasingly, from the Tea Party on, they are voting on race, they're voting on this idea of an invasion of brown people over the border, the idea that they can’t get whatever job they want, a black person got it, therefore drive all the blacks out of the colleges, get rid of DEI. That is what they are voting on. They're just voting specifically on racial animus at this stage. It isn’t about economics."