ESPN host Max Kellerman dismissed President Trump’s voting base as “susceptible to very low-quality information” and “immune to facts.”
“They seem to be susceptible to very low-quality information and easy to propagandize and almost immune to facts,” Kellerman said Thursday on ESPN’s First Take, arguing that if the Southeastern Conference canceled college football, it wouldn’t hurt Trump with his base. “Because, as Kellyanne Conway, the adviser of Trump, said, you know, she may have alternative facts. If they stay in their kind of propaganda silos, like the Fox News propaganda silo, it wouldn’t matter what happened because they would say, ‘Oh, no, the handling of the pandemic has been great.'”
“The handling of the pandemic has been the worst in the industrialized, democratic world by far. In the United States, by far, at a federal level, it’s been a disaster, and as a result, we’re dealing with this pandemic. And yet, I didn’t think that would affect voters because the blame would be shifted.”
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Questions were raised as to whether or not college and professional football leagues will start their seasons on time or at all after decisions from MLB and NBA teams to boycott games over the recent shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during an interaction with police.
“If the NFL doesn’t play football — like, I think the NFL players have a lot of power here — if they don’t play football, at a certain point, the core will remain, but the football base goes all throughout the country and doesn’t just hit one or another’s political base, but insofar as there’s such things as swing voters still, it will absolutely affect some of them. If the NFL season isn’t played or it’s interrupted as a result of social justice issues, and of course we all understand this is all against the backdrop of the pandemic … I think that might actually have political consequences in a general election.”
Earlier this week, Kellerman weighed in on race relations in America and Trump’s election. He argued that “white grievance politics” is an outrage while slamming those who were upset over a black NBA player calling a white NBA player a “bitch-ass white boy.”
“The kind of white grievance politics that goes on in this country right now is an outrage,” Kellerman said. “The fact that white people are — it’s a generalization, but it works if you look at the way the country voted, for example, in the last general election — had this whole kind of grievance politics. White people in America have grievance politics? Think about how insane that is.”
