MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross and guest Errin Haines criticized female politicians who support Donald Trump for buying into “toxic masculinity.”
During Saturday’s episode of “The Cross Connection,” the host and the editor-at-large of The 19th discussed Tuesday’s Wyoming Republican Primary, which saw Liz Cheney lose to Trump supporter Harriet Hageman.
“Women like [Hageman], women like Kari Lake in Arizona are proof that the toxic masculinity that Trump displays is not limited to gender,”Haines spoke of the GOP gubernatorial hopeful. “I mean, these are women who are willing to embrace the Big Lie.”
Haines made fun Lake by using slang like “BDE” (“big d— energy”) on the campaign trail in an attempt to “energize” voters. “I’m not really sure who thinks that’s criteria for running or holding office,” she quipped.
She praised Cheney for her role as co-chairperson of the Jan. 6 committee. “lift up women who have spoken up and spoken out against the Big Lie, and really pointed out many of the older white men who have stood by and remain silent, if not complicit, while our democracy remains under threat.”
Cheney was forced to resign from Congress, and she received death threats while campaigning. “Trump’s rhetoric continues to be weaponized by some of his supporters.”
Cross agreed and said that female candidates such as Lake or Hageman, by staying loyal to the ex-president, contribute to toxic masculinity.
“I think that’s a quintessential problem with the Phyllis Schlaflys of the world,”She spoke of the late activist, who was against feminism and gay rights, and she added, “They want some of that white man power, so to get that, they will help uphold it, they will help defend it.”
Lake, a former news anchor beat Karrin Taylor Robson, a lawyer, to become the Republican candidate in Arizona. Robson had Previously called2020 election “unfair”Lake made it without calling it a fraud. “stolen election”These claims are central to her campaign. In September 2021, Donald Trump declaredHis endorsement of Lake. She will face off against Democrat Katie Hobbs in November, as will Hageman against Democrat Lynnette Grey Bull in Wyoming’s congressional race.
