As millions of Americans from the heartland were preparing to watch Super Bowl LIV, MSNBC’s Joy Reid said the word “heartland” is “like a dog whistle for white voters.”
Reid’s latest cry of racism occurred as she was interviewing former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a contender for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination, on her cable program AM Joy. During her on-air interrogation of Buttigieg — the former mayor of a city in the heartland — Reid took issue with a Buttigieg tweet that read, “In the face of unprecedented challenges, we need a president whose vision was shaped by the American Heartland rather than the ineffective Washington politics we’ve come to know and expect.”
“I got a lot of texts on that tweet, not positive,” Reid said. “Heartland, that sounds like a lot of people like a dog whistle for white voters.”
Reid then asked Buttigieg, “When you say ‘heartland,’ who do you mean?”
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