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Donald Trump was elected president by voters trapped in a media “bubble” who have no “basic” understanding of what Trump has done or will do, conservative attorney George Conway argued Saturday.
It’s not the “elites” who are in a “bubble,” insulated from hard reality, but Trump’s backers, due to slanted, “self-selected” media, insisted Conway, ex husband of former top Trump White House aide Kellyanne Conway.
Trump backers do include “legitimate voters … voters who are actual swing voters who have been negatively affected by inflation,” he said on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.”
But many diehard Trump supporters only listen to one-note media, and hear only what they want to hear, Conway added. When they encounter something critical, they simply switch the channel — or, rather, their media outlets effectively switch the channel when anything critical pops up.
“They consume an information diet that is … self-selected … that is addictive,” which spins a “bubble around 40 percent of the population,” he said.
Conway added: “They don’t know basic things about what Trump has done. Whenever Trump says something crazy and starts to perform vulgar acts on a microphone … they change the channel.”
NEW: George Conway says the real reason Democrats lost to Trump is that 40% of the population lives in a ‘bubble’
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