During Thursday’s All In on MSNBC, what began as a discussion of socialist Bernie Sanders between host Chris Hayes and national correspondent Joy Reid suddenly morphed into the pair gushing over how some supporters of Hillary Clinton “are devoted diehards” that “we tend to underestimate” in the media.
Reid first highlighted how some Sanders supporters are “stuck” and will undoubtedly be backing him in the Democratic primary while others “at the end of the day, would vote for Hillary Clinton were she to become the nominee” since some are not “diehards.”
The former Reid Report host then began recalling her recent time reporting in Iowa where “[t]he Democratic Party is much more liberal” where voters “take their politics obviously very seriously” and “[t]he Hillary people were, by and large, women, particularly women over 50 who are very much about getting a woman in the White House.”
In further trying to describe this demographic, Hayes finished her sentence by dubbing them “diehard” to which Reid agreed and then continued by claiming that “we in the media underestimate it because there’s a media schafreud about all things Clinton and the media wants them to go down.”
She added that “[l]et’s just be honest” and hyped that “that we tend to underestimate how diehard the Hillary people are.”
Complimenting her for raising “a very important point,” Hayes fretted that “a missing part of the story about Hillary Clinton's campaign which is this sort of a like collective – this atmosphere – sort of collective yawn that you get from the press or like ‘oh, the Clintons again.’”
The All In host then implored the audience to place on the back burner “whatever you think of Hillary Clinton, substantively, politically, as a candidate” to instead realize: “There are lots of people in this country who are devoted diehard fans of Hillary Clinton and want nothing more than to see her elected president and those people are not reflected, I think, in the coverage.”
Before moving on to briefly looking at the rumors surrounding a 2016 presidential bid by Vice President Joe Biden, Reid wanted to remind everyone of how, in the 2008 campaign:
[T]here were women particularly who were Hillary supporters who were vowing not to vote for Barack Obama and to exit – right and become Republicans – the Pumas – if she didn't get the nomination or get on the ticket and there are still people out there.
As NewsBusters readers might remember, it was only back on August 19's All In that Reid joined Hayes to discuss Clinton’s e-mail scandal with Reid complaining about how “utterly bored” she was by the story that she “only recently began to sot of dig into it.”
