'Trump is toast': Why Michael Moore is 'confident' Harris will win

'Trump is toast': Why Michael Moore is 'confident' Harris will win
Michael Moore in 2011 (Creative Commons)
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Back in 2016, liberal/progressive filmmaker Michael Moore predicted that Donald Trump would pull off an upset, carry Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — three states that had been going Democratic in presidential elections — and defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

It gave Moore no pleasure to make that prediction; he supported Clinton but feared she was failing to close the deal in the Rust Belt. And his election forecast proved quite accurate when Trump did, in fact, carry Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin and won the election.

But eight years later, Moore is bullish on 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

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In October, Moore declared that "Trump is toast." And he was equally confident of a Harris victory during an early November conversation with MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin.

The filmmaker — known for "Sicko," "Bowling for Columbine," "Fahrenheit 9/11," "Roger and Me" and other documentaries — told Mohyeldin, "I really don't think (the Trump campaign) is in touch with where the majority of Americans are at. The majority of Americans do not want this divisiveness. They do not want a threat of violence. We are OK to disagree with each other, but that's where it ends. We go to vote. Who wins, wins."

Referencing Trump's recent comment that he wouldn't "mind" if an assassin "shot through" the media, Moore told Mohyeldin, "They really believe that an average normal American wants to hear that. They actually believe that we don't like immigrants. We are immigrants."

Moore added that when Republicans "talk about immigrants in this vicious, vile way," it shows how out of touch they are.

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Moore told the MSNBC host, "I think they are going to be very surprised — I'm talking about the Trump people and the MAGA nation — by what's going to happen on Tuesday…. I feel the same way I felt a few weeks ago: that Trump is toast. Absolutely. I feel it more now."

Moore continued, "I don't want to say it too loudly because our work isn't done. We all have doors to knock on tomorrow. We all have to make sure we get people to vote…. But having said that, I am very optimistic and hopeful…. I have a lot of personal deep faith in my fellow Americans."

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