Florida Representative Byron Donalds responded to MSNBC host Joy Reid’s accusation that he is being exploited by the GOP due to his race while appearing on “Fox News Sunday.”
Reid went into an unhinged tirade after Donalds attended Trump’s rally in the Bronx, claiming he is “the black guy that Republicans love to roll out as fake proof that black people, the blacks, are just MAGA, they’re MAGA. It’s a joke and just as credible as when they pretended they were gonna make that guy speaker of the House, ’cause they weren’t going to do that either.”
Donalds was quick to fire back, saying “making more of a statement about Republicans or about [Donalds].”
“First of all, I find Joy’s comments to be nothing more than crabs in a barrel,” he said. “Just because I have a different viewpoint, different way of looking at the world, different politics, now all of a sudden I’m being used? You can make an argument that MSNBC is using her, but I’m gonna move on.”
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“We’re looking at expanding the political map, not shrinking it based upon race or anything else because that’s what Joy Reid and Joe Biden and the rest of them wanna do. They want to shrink the political map based upon previous dogma and racial lines,” he said, referring to President Joe Biden’s loss of black support. “That is not what President Trump’s focus is. His focus is on all of America.”
