Today’s “powerhouse panel” on ABC This Week inadvertently showed the widening gulf between what is top-of-mind for the Acela Media versus what is on the minds of the actual American electorate. In particular, this exchange between host Jon Karl and former RNC chair Reince Priebus on the general election suitability of Donald Trump.
Watch as Priebus informs Karl, much to the panel’s dismay, that the electorate is angrier than they were in 2016.
JON KARL: I mean, Reince, I remember you as RNC chair kind of fighting so hard to get him to condemn David Duke when David Duke endorsed him. And I remember you in the White House trying to, you know, keep him within the guardrails. Do you worry that, you know, as he rushes towards this nomination, that he’s going off those — into those places you tried to keep him from going?
REINCE PRIEBUS: Um, not particularly because I think that…
