Rachel Maddow on Monday joked about the possibility of Donald Trump selecting a right-wing Twitter user with the handle “catturd2” as his running mate if he were to become the GOP presidential nominee, saying that the account appeals to the former president “in a visceral way.”
In a Truth Social post on Friday, Trump publicized an incredibly unscientific Twitter poll conducted March 22 by the account which showed him with 69 percent support in the GOP primary, compared with 24 percent for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his main rival.
At a 2024 campaign rally Saturday in Waco, Texas, Trump appeared to cite the same poll. And on Monday, a Trump-allied Super Pac called Make America Great Again Inc. shared it—and even gave it a flashy graphic to boot.