After J.D. Vance called for Democrats to tone down their rhetoric, Joy Reid shot back noting that it is the Republicans pushing incendiary language.
When Kamala Harris took over the Democratic nomination from Joe Biden, she changed the way the campaign talked about Donald Trump. Rather than painting him out to be a dangerous threat to democracy, she instead paints him as an addled and pathetic man.
A potential assassin ended up on one of Trump's golf courses and the Republicans are looking to help their failing campaign by connecting it to Democrats. Joy Reid thinks that is nonsense and it is not going to work.
The host began by noting that Vance and Trump have spent the week lying about Haitian migrants:
"Guess where Trump now says he’s going to start the bloody mass deportations? Springfield. Of course. All of this as Trump faces his second brush with death via a gunman shooting at him in Palm Beach, Florida, just as happened in Pennsylvania. Neither of whom were Haitian or any immigrant. Both of whom were white, American, Trump supporting men with guns."
Reid would later continue:
"The irony of it is that the violence, the actual violence we’re seeing comes much more disproportionately from MAGA themselves, whether it’s January 6th, whether it’s them threatening election workers, whether it’s the bomb threats coming into schools in Springfield. The violence is coming from them, from their own supporters, yet they try to portray Haitian immigrants as the people to fear."