On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” former Hillary for America Senior Spokesperson Karen Finney stated that people should have been surprised by the events in Charlottesville because a lot has been “churning” and “these were many of the people” who fueled President Trump’s victory.
Finney answered a question on polling showing that there are those who disapprove of President Trump’s handling of Charlottesville, but still approve of him by saying, “I think last week was a huge wake-up call for a lot of Americans and it shouldn’t have been. I mean, we know that these hate groups and this level of hate and bigotry has been seething among us for quite some time. We saw, frankly, the FBI and SPLC talking about, after President Obama was elected, the rise in those groups. So, people shouldn’t be surprised. Nor should they have been surprised that last — that Charlottesville happened. Because, certainly, I mean, it was horrible and horrifying and I — we — I think we all wish it hadn’t happened that way, but again, I think there’s been a lot churning for a very long time and certainly we saw President Trump talk about this a lot during the election. I mean, these were many of the people who fueled his victory, and there were many of the people who fueled — if you listened and looked at those rallies that he used — that he did, he still does them, I think it shouldn’t have come as a surprise to people that this is a reality in America. So, I think maybe the disparity in some of those polling numbers are in part people kind of waking up to the reality that we’ve got a real problem in this country, that, to put him aside, we’ve all got to deal with this. There can’t be an aftermath of Charlottesville. It has to be about what are we all going to do about this.”
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