Joy Reid says Nikki Haley lost due to racism and white Christians in Iowa want minorities to 'bow down' to them

On Monday night, Joy Reid on MSNBC told others on a panel covering the Iowa GOP Caucus that former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley  will not get the nomination because she is "a brown lady" and is getting "birthered by Donald Trump." 

The panel consisted of Reid, Jen Psaki, Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Ari Melber, and Stephanie Ruhle and the group had been covering the first state of the primary live on the outlet.  

"It's the elephant in the room, she's still a brown lady that's gotta try to win in a party that is deeply anti-immigrant, and which accepts the notion that you can say, 'Immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country,'" Reid told the panel. "She's... getting birthered by Donald Trump." 

"I don't see how she becomes the nominee of that party with Donald Trump still around." 

Reid then told the panel that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' only pitch is that he is "the white guy" who can appeal to evangelicals.  

Reid recounted a discussion she had with Robert "Robbie" Jones, the president and founder of Public Religion Research Institute, who told her that the state is 61 percent white Christian, which is more than the average across the country at 41 percent.

She asked him why this demographic supports Trump so strongly, and read back Jones's reply: "They see themselves as the rightful inheritors of this country, and Trump has promised to give it back to them."

"All the things that we think about, about electability, about what are people gaming out, but none of that matters when you believe that God has given you this country, that it is yours, and that everyone who is not a white, conservative Christian is a fraudulent American, is a less real American. Then you don’t care about electability. You care about what God has given you."

Reid later added, "They’re not trying to convince people and win people over through politics. What they’re saying is, ‘We own this country, and everyone will bow down to us."

She lamented the fact that Trump could become the nominee heading in the 2024 election year, saying, "everything [Trump] has touched has turned to poop." 

"Before he was indicted at 91 counts, he couldn't beat Joe Biden," Reid said. "We have to remember that I'd still rather be Biden in this. He beat him when Trump was unindicted... it's hard to imagine he's gaining voters by becoming indicted." 

"Republicans... have abandoned the idea of growing their party, because he has lost, everything he has touched has turned to poop... for the last four years." 

Trump pulled out the Iowa Caucuses with a landslide victory gaining the lion’s share of the state's 40 delegates in one of the fastest Iowa Caucuses in modern history.