MSNBC's Joy Reid explained why Herschel Walker lost his Georgia Senate bid. She said the Republican party's terribly flawed candidate was a mockery of Black people.
"You can get enough rural voters, enough non-college-educated white voters to come out and beautifully vote for whomever you put forward, no matter how flawed, no matter how many times they put a gun to the head of the woman they were married to," she said. "They don't care about that. They will come out dutifully. But the problem is, at some point, we have a -- that's more religiously diverse and more diverse in terms of religion."
"You are going to have to do what Michael Steele tried to do when he was chair of the RNC. You've got to, at some point, try to appeal to non-white voters," Reid continued. "You just have to. Because the demographics are what they are."
She explained that "a lot of people -- people are moving around and moving south. And so the states like North Carolina and Georgia are just going to change more. So, at some point, Republicans -- yet, it works for y'all, for now. You are going to have to make a decision. And I am sorry. But the Black candidates you put up -- the Muslim candidates, they can't be Dr. Oz. at a certain point, people are not going to go for that."
"You cannot humiliate people that you want to bring in. And I'm sorry, but Herschel Walker was a humiliation to Black people," she continued. "The people that I talked to in Atlanta and all over the country who have been all in my phone saying, please promise me that this man will not be a Senator. Because they felt absolutely kicked in the face and humiliated and had their noses rubbed in the dirt by the fact of his nomination."
"Because he was so inadequate, so bad, what did Chappelle say, stupid, that it made it look like you are mocking Black people. That's not a strategy.
"The Atlantic today suggested that Herschel Walker's candidacy was an assault on Black dignity," she added. "It was.
Republicans have left policies behind and focused on what white people want instead of what is good for all of their constituents. And they laid everything on the line for Donald J. Trump, who supported Walker's run for the Senate. That's why they got behind (looking at you, Lindsey Graham) Walker. And Walker had the white evangelical vote down pat. They voted for a violent wife abuser who funded abortions instead of an actual Reverend.
Perhaps they wanted people to think that they are widening the tent for Black people (that's not what they were doing), but instead, they made a mockery out of Black people.
