Rush Limbaugh: “Nobody I know on the Republican side even knows” any “so-called white nationalists”

Limbaugh: “They are so small, they are so fringe, but the media is trying to say that they are the Republican Party and that they are Trump's base, and that Trump is one of them”

Written by Media Matters Staff

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From the July 22 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): The media would like you to believe that the white supremacists and the alt-right, which is about 30 people -- they want you to believe that that is the base for Donald Trump, while trying to tell you that [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and her “squad” and antifa and Black Lives Matter are nowhere near defining the Democrat Party. But it's the exact opposite. The extremists on the left are becoming the face of the Democrat Party.

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Those people are taking over the Democrat Party. The so-called white nationalists -- I don't even know any. The so-called white national/white supremacists -- I don't even know any. Nobody I know on the Republican side even knows these people. They are so small, they are so fringe, but the media is trying to say that they are the Republican Party, and that they are Trump's base, and that Trump is one of them.

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