In a 2020 interview with CNN, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown said former President Donald Trump’s supporters were “supporting a racist for president” and that 35% of Americans love him for playing to “anger.”
While defending then-Sen. Kamala Harris against criticism from then-President Donald Trump, Sen. Sherrod Brown told CNN that Trump voters are “supporting a racist for president.”
“Well I think it works”, Brown told CNN’s Anderson Cooper when asked about Trump calling Harris “horrible” and “nasty.”
“It’s the reason that the 35 percent of Americans that support President Trump love President Trump, because he plays to the anger and fear and resentment and often to racism of not all but some of his supporters”, Brown continued. “But keep in mind, his supporters are, whether they’re – while I’ve not called all of them racist, I understand that they are supporting a racist for President, but it works for them. It just drives more and more of the public away from him. And that’s why so much of the public has just had it with Trump, including some that voted for him.”
Brown’s 2020 comment followed a comment in 2019 on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, where he also called Trump racist.
