The senator said he has "a hard time understanding" why Trump's legal issues don't "seem to be moving the needle" with more voters.

The senator said he has “a hard time understanding” why Trump’s legal issues don’t “seem to be moving the needle” with more voters.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) called out the majority of Iowa Republican caucus voters who baselessly believe that President Joe Biden did not win the 2020 election legitimately.

“I think a lot of people in this country are out of touch with reality and will accept anything Donald Trump tells them,” Romney, who announced in September that he is not seeking reelection, told CNN journalist Manu Raju on Wednesday.

About 65% of Iowa caucusgoers said they believe former President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him, according to entrance poll data.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    312·
    11 months ago

    You know my favorite part about this? Even a guy who believes that a man who told fortunes by looking at a rock inside his hat one day dug up some golden plates and an angel helped him translate them and then took the plates away and that’s why he has to wear magic underwear realizes that Trump supporters are out of touch with reality. (Even if he does qualify it with ‘some.’)

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      12·
      11 months ago

      Even a guy who believes

      The Mormon, the Scientologist, and the 7th Day Adventist all making fun of those silly QAnoners. 🤣

      Trump supporters are out of touch with reality

      The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’ […] ‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’

      ~ attributed by journalist Ron Suskind to an unnamed official in the George W. Bush administration who used it to denigrate a critic of the administration’s policies as someone who based their judgments on facts

      These idiots and assholes have always been with us. Trump’s really piled on the clown make-up, but you can find like-minded delusional assholes going straight back to the administrations of our nation’s founders.

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 months ago

      My fortune telling hat has an angry rabbit inside who screams obscenities that only I can hear, it’s my sorrowful duty to listen and report whatb he says.