Presidential nominee Donald Trump is fracturing conservatives and the Republican party even more effectively than the Democratic party and the left could have imagined, conservative commentator Glenn Beck said on CNN’s "Reliable Sources" on Sunday.
"I don't think that the left could have planned a better candidate to blow up the right than Donald Trump," Beck told host Brian Stelter.
"I blame Donald Trump for being the worst candidate for either party the country has ever seen. If Donald Trump loses, it's going to be Donald Trump's fault. If Donald Trump wins, it will be Donald Trump's fault."
Beck called Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton "cyanide to the republic" earlier this week, but said he believes "Trump may be worse." Beck faulted the media for allowing the Trump phenomenon to grow.
"Look at what the media did: Instead of taking him seriously from the very beginning and actually holding him responsible for some of the things that he said, a lot people just looked at him as a circus show — ‘This will drive up numbers and he will burn himself out,’" Beck told CNN’s Stelter. "It was a huge mistake.
"By last August, we were taking him very seriously, [yet] still thought he would blow himself up, but I don’t think so. It’s not Donald Trump. It’s us.
" … ‘Well, he’s better than she is,’ or ‘she’s better than he is.’ Okay, well, they’re both bad. They both stink on ice."
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