Trump's 'violent and ugly' rhetoric turning away female voters: former Rep. Comstock

IS ANTICIPATING IN THE ANNUAL

WHITE HOUSE EASTER EGG ROLL AT

THIS VERY MOMENT POSTED ABOUT

THE POWER OF HOPE AND THE

HOLIDAY.

JOINING US IS NBC'S VAUGHN

HILLYARD WITH ME IN NEW YORK.

FORMER CONGRESS MEMBERS BARBARA

COMSTOCK AND DAVID JOLLY.

FROM THE TWO MEN WHO WANT TO WIN

BACK THE WHITE HOUSE, TRUMP HAS

MADE A POINT TO REALLY APPEAL TO

THE EVANGELICAL BASE.

HE'S OUT THERE SELLING BIBLES

NOW, AND THIS IS HOW HE SPENDS

EASTER?

THIS IS HIS MESSAGE?

>> QUITE SOMETHING WATCHING

EASTER UNFOLD FOR ANYONE

FOLLOWING THE TRUTH SOCIAL SKT

OF DONALD J. TRUMP.

HE HAD MULTIPLE POSTS IN WHICH

HE WAS PROMOTING PIECES THAT

WERE MOCKING THE TRANSGENDER DAY

OF VISIBILITY.

THERE ARE MORE THAN 75 POSTS IN

TOTAL.

OTHERS SAID HAPPY EASTER TO ALL,

INCLUDING THOSE THAT I

COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY DESPISE

BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY

AMERICA.

HE POSTED ANOTHER ALLY'S MESSAGE

SAYING IT'S NOT A CRIME TO TWIST

POLITICAL ARMS, HOW DONALD TRUMP

TOLD MIKE PENCE THAT CERTIFYING

THE 2020 ELECTION WOULD BE A,

QUOTE, CAREER KILLER.

POSTED ANOTHER PIECE BY A RIGHT

WING ALLY IN WHICH IT REFERRED

TO, QUOTE, THE CRUCIFIXION OF

DONALD TRUMP.

ANOTHER PIECE HE POSTED HAD,

QUOTE, THE CHOSEN ONE.

THIS IS THE PART OF THIS PIECE

THAT A TRUMP ALLY WROTE.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?

WHAT'S HAPPENING IN

SUPERNATURAL.

EVERYONE IS STARTING TO SEE IT,

EVERYONE IS STARTING TO BELIEVE.

TRUMP IS, QUOTE, THE CHOSEN WON,

TRUMP IS SENT BY GOD AND BLESSED

BY GOD.

THE FORMER PRESIDENT POSTING

THAT ARTICLE.

TRUMP CONTINUES TO TRY TO

LEGITIMIZE HIS GRIEVANCES.

IT WANT EVERYONE TO LISTEN TO

PRESIDENT BIDEN THIS MORNING

TALKING WITH OUR COLLEAGUE AL

ROKER OUTSIDE THE EASTER EGG

ROLL.

>> I JUST THINK PEOPLE ARE SO

TIRED OF THE NEGATIVITY THAT IS

PROPAGATED, THAT THEY JUST WANT

TO GET ENGAGED, THEY WANT TO

CHANGE THINGS.

I'M OPTIMISTIC.

I REALLY AM.

>> THAT'S PRESIDENT BIDEN

TALKING ABOUT OPTIMISM.

DONALD TRUMP HAS A LITTLE

DIFFERENT VERSION OF OPTIMISM

HERE, BUT IT'S ONE THAT THE

AMERICAN PUBLIC IS GOING TO SEE

IN GREAT CONTEXT THE NEXT SEVEN

MONTHS IF EASTER IS ANY SIGN OF

THAT.

>> CONGRESSMAN JOLLY, YOUR

THOUGHTS ON THESE CONTRASTING

MESSAGES.

ARE AMERICANS, SHOULD AMERICANS

BE OPTIMISTIC?

ARE THEY TIRED OF THE STUFF THAT

TRUMP IS POSTING?

>> I THINK THEY ARE.

LET'S BE HONEST, I THINK MILLION

MILLIONS OF AMERICANS SAW

YESTERDAY AND WERE REMINDED OF

SOMEONE THEY SEE AS AN UNWELL

AND ANGRY MAN.

FRANKLY, THAT HITS AMONG A

POLITICAL DEMOGRAPHIC THAT

DONALD TRUMP SHOULD BE WORRIED

ABOUT GOING INTO NOVEMBER.

HIS ATTACKS ON THE TRANSGENDER

COMMUNITY ARE ARGUABLY THEER

LOGICALLY VERY UNSOUND AND ALSO

POLITICALLY RIDICULOUS.

WHY WOULD YOU BE OUT THERE WITH

A MEGAPHONE SAYING I WANT TO

DENY EQUITY AND INCLUSIVITY ON A

DAY WHEN PEOPLE SHOULD BE

CELEBRATING WHAT THINGS THEM

TOGETHER THROUGH FAITH.

POLITICALLY WHAT'S MOST

IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS AND I THINK

WHAT JOE BIDEN IS REFERRING TO,

WE TALK ABOUT THIS BEING A

COALITION ELECTION.

JOE BIDEN NEEDS -- THE

PERSUADABLES, ONE OF THE REASONS

THEY'RE QUESTIONING WHETHER THEY

CAN VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP AGAIN

IS THEY'RE TIRED OF HIM AND

TIRED OF HIS ANGER AND HIS

ANTICS, MUCH LESS HIS THREATS TO

THE INSTITUTIONS THAT KEEP OUR

COUNTRY TOGETHER.

JOE BIDEN SEES THAT IN THIS

MYTHICAL NIKKI HALEY VOTER,

LET'S SAY.

THAT COALITION THAT CAN DECIDE

THE ELECTION IN SEVEN STATES IS

THE COALITION THAT LOOKED AT

YESTERDAY AND SAID I DON'T THINK

I WANT TO GO BACK TO DONALD

TRUMP.

>> LET'S FOR A MOMENT FOCUS ON

HIS APPEAL WITH THE EVANGELICAL

VOTER.

IT WANT YOU TO LISTEN TO WHAT

SENATOR AND REVEREND RAPHAEL

WARNOCK SAID ABOUT TRUMP SELLING

BIBLES.

>> THE BIBLE DOESN'T NEED DONALD

TRUMP'S ENDORSEMENT, AND JESUS

IN THE VERY LAST WEEK OF HIS

LIFE CHASED THE MONEY CHASERS

OUT OF THE TELLABLE.

>> CONGRESSWOMAN COMSTOCK, DOES

HE RISK ALIENATING THE

EVANGELICAL BASE BY ACTING THE

WAY HE IS, SELLING BIBLES ON ONE

HAND, USING RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS

TO ATTACK OPPONENTS AND

PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES AND

FAMILY MEMBERS OF THEIRS ON THE

OTHER?

>> LISTEN, THE 7% IN THE SEVEN

STATES THAT ARE GOING TO DECIDE

THE ELECTION ARE WOMEN.

THEY ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY

WOMEN.

THEY AREN'T NECESSARY

EVANGELICALS, BUT THE VIOLENT

RHETORIC HE USED ON FRIDAY, THAT

BOUND AND GAGGED IMAGERY OF JOE

BIDEN, THAT'S THE KIND OF THING

THAT TURNS WOMEN OFF.

THE MISOGYNY TURNS WOMEN OFF.

THIS WEEKEND LIZ CHENEY HAD A

HUGE EVENT WHERE SHE WAS TALKING

ABOUT ALL OF THE PROBLEMS OF

DONALD TRUMP.

AND THOSE ADS THAT JOE BIDEN IS

NOW DOING, APPEALING TO THE

NIKKI HALEY VOTERS ARE VERY

EFFECTIVE BECAUSE THEY'RE ALSO

BEING COMPLEMENTED BY ADS

TARGETING THE VERY SAME PEOPLE

FROM REPUBLICANS AGAINST TRUMP.

WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT THERE'S

NOT -- THERE'S ALMOST NO

REPUBLICANS WHO SERVED IN DONALD

TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION WHO

SUPPORT HIM, INCLUDING HIS OWN

VICE PRESIDENT WHO ACTUALLY WAS

PROBABLY IN CHURCH YESTERDAY,

LIKE I WAS, AND DONALD TRUMP --

THE BIBLE SALESMAN, THE HUXTER

DONALD TRUMP DOESN'T APPEAR TO

HAVE BEEN IN CHURCH YESTERDAY

WHILE HE WAS DOING THAT 70-PLUS

POSTS ATTACKING, I MIGHT NOTE,

MIKE GALLAGHER FROM WISCONSIN,

ONE OF THOSE SWING STATES.

WHEN HE GOES IN THERE AND

ATTACKS PEOPLE IN WISCONSIN,

THAT'S ALSO PAUL RYAN'S HOME

STATE.

PAUL RYAN IS NOT SUPPORTING

DONALD TRUMP.

SO THOSE SEVEN STATES, THE 7% OF

PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO SUPPORT

HIM, HE'S TURNING THEM OFF EVERY

DAY.

HE'S STILL ATTACKING RON

DeSANTIS WHO IS SOMEBODY WHO HAS

ALREADY ENDORSED HIM.

SO THE REAL PROBLEM IS THE SEVEN

STATES AND ALL THE REPUBLICANS

HE KEEPS ATTACKING WHILE JOE

BIDEN'S REACHING OUT TO PEOPLE,

AND HE'S GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF

REPUBLICANS WHO ARE GOING TO BE

SUPPORTING HIM.

>> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HE WAS

PUTTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA OR SORT

OF REPOSTING THAT VAUGHN

MENTIONED WAS THIS ARTICLE BY

MICHAEL BENDER OF "THE NEW YORK

TIMES" WHO WROTE ABOUT THE,

QUOTE, CHURCH OF TRUMP, AND

TRUMP'S EVANGELICAL BASE.

HE QUOTES ONE SUPPORTER OF

SAYING, I'LL REITERATE THIS

QUOTE.

HE'S DEFINITELY BEEN CHOSEN BY

GOD.

HE'S STILL SURVIVING EVEN THOUGH

ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE COMING

AFTER HIM, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW

ELSE TO EXPLAIN THAT OTHER THAN

DIVINE INTERVENTION.

THAT IS A DIRECT QUOTE FROM ONE

OF TRUMP'S EVANGELICAL

SUPPORTERS.

CONGRESSMAN JOLLY, WHAT'S YOUR

REACTION?

CAN TRUMP DO NO WRONG WITH THIS

GROUP?

>> WELL, I THINK IT DEPENDS ON

HOW NARROWLY TAILORED WE WANT TO

MAKE THE EVANGELICAL

DEMOGRAPHIC, IF YOU WILL.

FOR MANY THEY SEE DONALD TRUMP

AS A PERFECT VESSEL DESPITE HIS

OWN IMPERFECTIONS.

ALMOST A TENET OF THE

EVANGELICAL CRIST Y'ALL

MOVEMENT, SOMEBODY DESPITE ALL

HIS IMPERFECTIONS WHO DELIVERED

THE REPEAL OF ROE IN THE DOBBS

DECISION.

THEY SEE GOD WORKING THROUGH

DONALD TRUMP DESPITE HIS

IMPERFECTIONS.

AT TIMES VANITY CAN GO TOO FAR.

THEY MAY BE THINKING IS THIS IS

GUY IN COMPETITION WITH JESUS

CHRIST.

HE WAS INTIMIDATED BY THE

ATTENTION JESUS CHRIST GOT ON

EASTER.

IT CUTS AGAINST ALL THE OTHER

TEACHINGS OF THE EVANGELICAL

CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT.

I THINK THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH

WILL REMAIN BEHIND DONALD TRUMP

IN LOCKSTEP.

HOWEVER, THERE IS SOME BLEED

DEPENDING ON HOW WIDE WE MAKE

THAT LANE.

SOME EVANGELICAL WOMEN ARE

SITTING IN THE PEWS YESTERDAY

SAYING I'M NOT VOTING FOR DONALD

TRUMP BECAUSE I THINK THE ROE

FRAMEWORK IS BETTER.

THOSE VOTERS MATTER TO JOE BIDEN

GETTING RE-ELECTED.

>> LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS POST

GETTING A LOT OF BLOWBACK,

CONTROVERSIAL POST THAT WE'RE

NOT GOING TO SHOW BECAUSE OF HOW

DISTURBING IT IS.

IT IS VIDEO OF A FAKE PICTURE OF

A BOUND PRESIDENT BIDEN, THE

BACK OF A PICKUP TRUCK.

IS THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN RESPONDING

AT ALL TO THE BLOWBACK IT'S

GETTING?

>> THIS IS A MOMENT HERE WHERE

DONALD TRUMP OVER THE COURSE OF

THE LAST NINE YEARS IS EVERMORE

IN CONTROL OF HIS OWN MESSAGING.

THERE IS NO WALKING BACK, THERE

IS NO REGRET.

OF CAMPAIGNS PAST THERE WOULD BE

MOMENTS LIKE, OKAY, CAMPAIGN

MANAGERS, CANDIDATE, THEY HUDDLE

TOGETHER AND SAY WE'VE GOT TO

FIX THIS.

DONALD TRUMP POSTED THIS ON HIS

SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT.

WE HAVE HEARD, WE HAVE SEEN

VIOLENT IMAGERY.

WE'VE HEARD THAT ECHOED BY HIS

SUPPORTERS.

ALL OF THIS IS THE STAKES OF

THAT ELECTION, WHAT DONALD TRUMP

CALLS THE FINAL BATTLE OF 2024.

THAT WAS A DECISION TO POST THAT

VIDEO.

THIS FOR THE CAMPAIGN, THE

CAMPAIGN IS DONALD TRUMP'S

CAMPAIGN.

DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO

CONTINUE TO PUT OUT THIS SORT OF

IMAGERY.

WE HAVE NO REASON NOT TO BELIEVE

THAT THAT IS THE CASE.

WE HAVE NO REASON TO EXPECT THAT

THERE WILL BE ANY WALKBACK FROM

HIS CAMPAIGN FROM INSTANCES LIKE

THIS.

>> CONGRESSWOMAN COMSTOCK, HOW

CONCERNED ARE YOU ABOUT THE

POTENTIAL FOR TRUMP'S RHETORIC

OR HIS POSTS TO, AGAIN, INSPIRE

VIOLENCE LIKE WE SAW ON JANUARY

6th.

I'M THINKING ABOUT THE PEOPLE

WHO HAVE SINCE BEEN ARRESTED AND

TRIED FOR CRIMES RELATED TO

JANUARY 6th WHO SAID THEY WERE

JUST DOING WHAT THEY THOUGHT

TRUMP WANTED THEM TO DO.

>> I SERVE ON THE NATIONAL

COUNCIL OF ELECTION INTEGRITY.

WE'RE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE

INCREASED VIOLENCE AGAINST

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

OBVIOUSLY WE'RE VERY CONCERNED

ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY

6th.

WE WERE FORMED THE 2020 ELECTION

BECAUSE WE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT

POTENTIAL VIOLENCE NO MATTER

WHAT THE OUTCOME WAS GOING TO BE

IN THE 2020 ELECTION.

I PERSONALLY AM VERY CONCERNED

ABOUT THE EXTENSION OF PARDONS

THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS ALREADY

MADE TO THE JANUARY 6th FELONS,

PEOPLE WHO HAVE PLED GUILTY, WHO

SAID THEY WERE GUILTY OF THOSE

CRIMES, OF ATTACKING CAPITOL

HILL POLICE OFFICERS WHO I

WORKED WITH.

MANY OF THOSE WERE MY

CONSTITUENTS, PEOPLE WHO WERE

ASSAULTED.

OVER 140 OFFICERS WHO WERE

INJURED WHO DONALD TRUMP

CONTINUES TO TALK ABOUT THE

PEOPLE WHO PLED GUILTY AS BEING

HOSTAGES WHEN WE KNOW THEY WERE

VIOLENT CRIMINALS AND WE'VE SEEN

THOSE PICTURES.

THAT IS VERY DISTURBING.

WHEN WE KNOW HE'S ATTACKING

JUDGES, ATTACKING THE FAMILIES

OF JUDGES, THE CURRENT JUDGE,

THIS PAST WEEK ATTACKINGS HIS

DAUGHTER.

WE KNOW WHEN HE MAKES THOSE TYPE

OF ATTACKS ON PEOPLE, THOSE

FAMILY MEMBERS, PEOPLE LIKE MY

FRIEND LIZ CHENEY, ADAM

KINZINGER, THEY'VE HAD DEATH

THREATS WHEN DONALD TRUMP MAKES

THOSE ATTACKS ON THEM.

HE MADE THAT ATTACK ON MIKE

GALLAGHER.

PROBABLY IF YOU CALLED MIKE

GALLAGHER, YOU'LL SEE THAT AT

TAX INCREASED ON HIM.

WE KNOW DURING THE SPEAKERS

BATTLE WHEN PEOPLE SAID, HEY,

YOU HAVE TO VOTE ON JIM JORDAN,

THERE WERE DEATH THREATS MADE

AGAINST THOSE WHO DIDN'T VOTE

FOR JIM JORDAN.

IT'S VERY TROUBLING, AN

INCREASING PROBLEM AND WHY

YOU'RE SEEING MEMBERS OF

CONGRESS LEAVE IN DROVES BECAUSE

OF THE DANGER TO THEM.

>> CONGRESSMAN JOLLY, POLITICO

IS REPORTING THAT REPUBLICANS ON

CAPITOL HILL ARE URGING TRUMP TO

TAMP DOWN ON THE ATTACKS ON HIS

RIVALS AND HIS COMMENTS ABOUT

JANUARY 6th.

HE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE LISTENING.

>> IT'S NOT WORKING.

I WOULD ADD TO BARBARA'S

COMMENTS THAT DONALD TRUMP IS

OUT ON BAIL RIGHT NOW IN HIS

CRIMINAL CASES.

HE SHOULD BE DETAINED PRETRIAL

IF HE'S GOING TO INCITE

VIOLENCE.

I THINK THAT'S WHY REPUBLICANS

ARE SO CONCERNED RIGHT NOW.

THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO

BE IN A VERY DIFFERENT PLACE

RIGHT NOW.

THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD HAVE JOE

BIDEN IMPEACHED.

THEY DIDN'T EXPECT DONALD TRUMP

TO BE ON TRIAL AND THOUGHT THE

ECONOMY WOULD BE IN THE TANK.

NONE OF THAT HAS HAPPENED.

R ARE WORRIED RIGHT NOW.

DONALD TRUMP, TOO MUCH VAN ANY

TO REALIZE HE'S IN TROUBLE.

REPUBLICANS ON THE HILL KNOW HE

IS.

HE IS OFF MESSAGE EVERY TIME HE

STEPS OUT IN FRONT OF THE VOTERS

THAT HE NEEDS.

THAT'S WHY REPUBLICANS ARE

WORRIED, AND THEY SHOULD BE.

>> CONGRESSWOMAN COMSTOCK,

COMING BACK TO SOMETHING YOU

TOUCHED ON EARLIER.

IN POLITICO, QUOTE, WHILE

INDEPENDENTS AND CROSS-OVER

VOTERS MAY HAVE BOOSTED FORMER

U.N. AMBASSADOR NIKKI HALEY IN

SOME OF THE PRIMARIES, A CHUNK

OF TRUE REPUBLICAN VOTERS STILL

WISHED FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO BE

THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE.

TAKE THE SUM TOTAL OF EVERYTHING

WE TALKED ABOUT TODAY.

IS DONALD TRUMP DOING WHAT HE

NEEDS TO DO TO LAND THOSE

CROSSOVER INDEPENDENT VOTERS?

>> LISTEN, IN THE WORDS OF

TAYLOR SWIFT, WE ARE NEVER, EVER

GETTING BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.

THAT'S WHY YOU'RE SEEING EVEN

WITH NIKKI HALEY NOT BEING IN

THE RACE, YOU'RE STILL SEEING

14, 15% OF THOSE VOTERS MAKING

THAT PROTEST VOTE.

OF COURSE, DONALD TRUMP IS STILL

ATTACKING NIKKI HALEY.

AS I MENTIONED, HE AND HIS

CAMPAIGN ARE STILL ATTACKING RON

DeSANTIS WHO ENDORSED HIM.

HE'S SAYING WE DON'T NEED YOUR

VOTERS.

REMEMBER HE VERY FAMOUSLY SAID,

IF YOU SUPPORT NIKKI HALEY, YOU

ARE PERMANENTLY BARRED --

>> RIGHT, FROM THE MAGA

MOVEMENT.

>> YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SEE MANY

OF THOSE NIKKI HALEY SUPPORTERS

SUPPORT HIM.

I CERTAINLY WON'T BE.

I KNOW DAVID WON'T BE EITHER.

I WAS IN A SWING DISTRICT.

THOSE 7% OF VOTERS, MOST OF THEM

IN THOSE SWING STATES, THEY ARE

NOT GOING TO BE OPEN TO

SUPPORTING DONALD TRUMP AS NIKKI

HALEY VOTERS.

THAT'S WHY THAT AD THAT JOE

BIDEN HAS UP RIGHT NOW IS VERY

WISE, AND HOPEFULLY THEY'LL BE

REACHING OUT IN THOSE SWING

STATES LIKE IN PENNSYLVANIA AND

MICHIGAN.

IN 2022 JOSH SHAPIRO AND

GRETCHEN ENGLER HAD HUGE SUPPORT

FROM REPUBLICANS IN BOTH OF

THOSE STATES.

THEY HAD HUGE ROSTERS OF

REPUBLICANS, ELECTED REPUBLICANS