‘They cheated’: Trump slams Biden at ‘victory’ rally as Hollywood superstar says Trumpers have the right to question ‘fake news’
Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey has defied his left-leaning peers and demanded Trump supporters be allowed to fight against “fake news” election result.
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Matthew McConaughey slammed the Hollywood elites who “condescend” and “patronise” conservatives, saying it’s hypocritical of them to expect President Trump’s supporters to just lay down and accept the 2020 election results.
On Russell Brand’s podcast U nder the Skin, McConaughey was asked if he noticed a “condemnation and criticism of ordinary working people” the entertainment industry when it comes to politics.
“There is a kind of offhandedness, like, ‘Oh, they’re dumb, they’re voting for Brexit, they’re voting for Trump.’ I don’t like it, and I don’t like to hear it,” Brand said in an episode last week.
McConaughey replied: “There are a lot of people on that illiberal left that absolutely condescend, patronise, and are arrogant towards the other 50 per cent.”
The New York Post reported that the True Detective star pointed out how some of his Hollywood peers struggled to accept the results in the 2016 election when Mr Trump stunned the world to take the White House, but now the roles have been reversed.
“I’m sure you saw it in our industry when Trump was voted in four years ago, they were in denial that was real. Some of them were in absolute denial,” McConaughey said.
He suggested that it would now be hypocritical for them to expect Trump voters to give up on challenging President-elect Joe Biden’s win.
“Now it looks like Biden’s our guy. Now you’ve got the right that’s in denial, cause their side has fake news. And I understand, they’ve been fed fake news. No one knows what the hell to believe, right? So they’re putting down their last bastion of defence.”
McConaughey said people should try to take a more moderate approach to political conversations in the US by challenging each other to meet in the middle.
“I almost feel like it’s a move to say, “Let’s get aggressively centric. I dare you,” he said.
‘THEY CHEATED’: TRUMP SLAMS BIDEN AT ‘VICTORY’ RALLY
Thousands of cheering supporters greeted Donald Trump at his first post-poll rally, chanting “we love you” and “four more years” as he pledged to keep challenging his election loss.
Four weeks after he was declared loser to Joe Biden, Mr Trump headlined an election-style rally for a run-off election that will dictate how much of his agenda the incoming Democrat will be able to implement.
Travelling to Valdosta, Georgia, Mr Trump joined a series of Republican heavyweights to stump for senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
Crowds started gathering at the rural airport from early Saturday morning.
The special election on January 5 will determine whether Republicans hold the Senate after having lost the White House and with Democrats having held the House.
Republican senators currently comprise 52 of the 100 seats and if the Democrat candidates win and bring the balance to 50-50 then their party assumes control, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris holding the deciding vote.
With so much at stake, the race has drawn record funding of more than US$300 million, as well as big names to the swing state, which has been called for Mr Biden but in which Mr Trump’s team continues to lodge legal challenges.
An upbeat Mr Trump repeated his claim that he was the rightful winner of last month’s election and that he would continue to fight.
“They cheated and they rigged your presidential election but we will still win it,” he said.
Describing the January 5 vote as “the most important congressional run-off probably in American history”, he implored Georgians to vote for the Republican candidates.
“We’ve never lost an election, we’re winning this election and I will say we are fighting very hard for this state,” he said.
Wearing a red leather coat and heels, First Lady Melania Trump introduced her husband.
“President Trump continues to fight for you every single day. Do not let your voices be silenced. We must keep our seats in the Senate,” she said.
Former president Barack Obama headlined a virtual get-out-the-vote rally there on Friday, while Vice President Mike Pence held a rally ahead of Mr Trump’s appearance at Valdosta airport at 7pm Saturday night.
And the race has also sparked drama among pro-Trumpers, with two controversial and outspoken lawyers spearheading a remarkable drive to convince Republican voters to not turn out for the Senate race as a “protest” against what they claim are rigged polls.
In other developments, incoming US president Joe Biden has shocked America by saying he would “develop some disease” if he had a disagreement with his Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
This from the man who will lead a country which has lost 275,000 people to COVID-19.
He also jokingly vowed to “resign” if he ever has an argument with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
The president-elect teased the idea of stepping down if he ever had a disagreement with Harris and quipped that he would have to “develop some disease” before doing so.
“Our philosophy of government is simpatico on how we want to approach these issues that we’re facing,” Mr Biden said, according to The Sun.
“And when we disagree, we just – so far it’s been just like when Barack and I did - it’s in private. She’ll say ‘I think we should do A,B,C, or D.’ And I’ll say ‘I like A, I don’t like B and C’ - and just go ‘okay.’
“But like I told Barack: If I reach something where there’s a fundamental disagreement that we have based on a moral principle, I’ll develop some disease and say I have to resign.”
His comment was seen as incredibly insensitive in the US where 275,000 people have died from the coronavirus.
The president-elect made the comments when he was asked what would happen if he and his vice-president had a disagreement during a CNN interview.
However, his joke didn’t appear to be very funny to Harris, who simply nodded quietly with a smile, apparently aware that her new boss had made yet another gaffe.
Meanwhile, a 20-year-old campaign staffer for Georgia Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler died Friday morning in a highway crash just before Vice President Mike Pence arrived in the state to stump for Loeffler and fellow Georgia Sen. David Perdue.
Harrison Deal, a former intern for Perdue, was also a family friend of Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who described him in a statement as “the Kemp son and brother we never had.”
The New York Post reported that Deal was killed on I-16 in Pooler, Georgia, outside Savannah, where Mr Pence spoke Friday afternoon local time. It’s unclear if the young aide was performing campaign duties at the time of the accident.
Ms Loeffler and Mr Perdue face a January 5 run-off election against Democratic candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
The outcome of the runoffs will dictate control of the Senate next year. Republicans will hold at least 50 seats in January, but if they lose both races, the Senate will be divided 50-50 and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will break ties.
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