Jerry Springer compared the Republican presidential debates to his talk show Tuesday, saying the GOP should pay him for copying his show.
During an appearance on MNSBC’s Steve Kornacki’s show on Tuesday, Springer was asked to compare the 2016 race to his controversial tabloid talk show.
“Well, they’re absolutely right. In fact, when I first started watching the Republican debates, I said that, you know, if they’re going to do my show, they should start paying me,” Springer said. “You know, it’s one thing to have a television show like that, but that’s not how you run a country. And it’s disgraceful.”
Springer, a former Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the late 1970s, said that he loves Bernie Sanders’ message, but thinks Hillary Clinton has a better chance in the general election.
“I love what Bernie Sanders says. I have nothing negative to say about him, but if you’re asking me honestly is America in a general election going to vote for him, I could be wrong, but I don’t think so,” he said. “I think once the Republicans start really attacking him and saying, oh, we can’t have this socialist, it’s going to lead to communism, you know the kind of ads they’re going to run against him. Anything they run against Hillary we already know. We’ve lived with her for the last 30 years. So, that’s not going … to move the needle.”
“But I think with Bernie it could really result in the Democrats not winning the presidency,” he added.
Springer also added that “there is no way that Donald Trump becomes president of the United States.”
