Former Steve King challenger on rural voters in GOP states: 'They hate Democrats'

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Former Iowa congressional candidate J.D. Scholten (D) joined Hill.TV's "Rising" on Monday to discuss the challenges Democrats face in their efforts to win over voters in GOP strongholds.

Scholten, who unsuccessfully challenged now-former Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), said polling has shown that as many as four in 10 voters in some districts have fallen victim to misinformation and believe that the most recent round of stimulus checks as part of President Biden's American Rescue Plan came from legislation passed during the Trump administration.

"The message is not getting through to these rural voters, and that's a bigger problem than the actual message," he said.

"Rural voters in these Republican states, they don't like Republicans but they hate Democrats," Scholten added.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-steve-king-challenger-on-rural-voters-in-gop-states-they-hate-democrats/ar-AAKl8NI

[Gregory Peccary]

1. Willfully ignorant

And Foxified zombies

[LastDemocratInSC]

7. InFOXicated zombies.

[LakeArenal]

2. They just Hate. Period. Democrats are just one target.

[Sibelius Fan]

3. They enjoy all the benefits Ds have brought them over the years,

believe that those benefits were the result of R policies, and begrudge any non-white person those same benefits that they themselves enjoy.

[gohuskies]

4. These haters are fully bought into American Pravda... aka Faux Newz

This is cross-generational hate that started with Limbaugh and taken up by the vast right-wing conspiracy to organize propaganda that eventually led to the rethuglican propaganda creation of Faux as their quasi-mainstream news outlet. Very twisted.

[samnsara]

5. in other words they are a mess

[TwilightZone]

6. It's not just Democrats. It's "others" of any form.

They seem to be terrified that some phantom "other" is going to take some phantom benefit or advantage from them that they can't even describe coherently and probably don't even understand.

[empedocles]

8. 'hate' & 'others', seem to be key words.

[TwilightZone]

10. I'm not sure it's even hate for some of them. It's fear.

I realize that they intertwine significantly but a lot of Republicans just seem terrified of, well, everything.

Some of that is born out of bigotry, much of it inherent in our society and institutions, but the bald fear that some of them show about meaningless things almost seems more like mental illness at times than simple hatred. They're not mutually exclusive, of course.

[doc03]

11. You got it I live in rural eastern Ohio I hear it

everyday. They have some kind of derogatory name for every race or group other than themselves. Think Archie Buncker.

[SoCalNative]

9. It's okay

the feeling is mutual.