JemmyTrump and his allies had a plan for how to hit Harris. Then he opened his mouth.
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www.politico.com/news/2024/08/01/donald-trump-k…
“They don’t have a narrative that they’re comfortable with about how to take down Harris,” said Chuck Coughlin, an Arizona-based political strategist. “He’s grasping around. I think he’s desperately grasping around with his instincts. I don’t think his team has any way to put their handle on this, and so he’s instinctually grasping around for what to say.”
The Trump machine had in recent days begun a multi-million-dollar TV advertising blitz hammering Harris for her record on the border, an issue the former president’s campaign sees as a winner — and portraying her as ideologically out of the mainstream. One ad from a pro-Trump group labeled the vice president a “dangerous San Francisco liberal.”
Harris had even begun defending herself from the attacks, hitting back Tuesday night in Atlanta about her border record, and simultaneously releasing a nearly minute-long video framing her as pro-border security.
But Trump’s comments Wednesday on Harris’ racial background drew some of the biggest gasps from the audience, and provided Democrats with ammunition. During the appearance, Trump said Harris “happen[ed] to turn Black … She was Indian all the way and all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a Black woman.”
Oh god, he doesn't know that Kamala Harris isn't Nikki Haley, does he?
He didn't know the difference between *Nancy Pelosi* and Nikki Haley.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-confuses-nikki-haley-pelosi-talking-jan-6-rcna134863
Kamala Haley is a dangerous radical liberal! Everybody says so!
“Why didn’t Kamala Pelosi stop January 6th from happening? She was in charge of security that day, I’ll never forgive her for that.”
Oh my G-d, I didn't even think of this. This makes so much sense. What an absolute buffoon.
He might not, but questioning his opponents race is a pretty standard tactic of his.
Or Elisabeth Warren...
Dude admits that it's what they all are thinking, he's just aware enough to know that it doesn't sound good and won't say that shit in public. Coward.
It sounds like hes saying he's not doing it on the air, but he still believes that nonsense.
“No plan survives contact with the enemy” - Paraphrasing Helmuth von Moltke
"Covfefe" - Donald J. Trump
"We have met the enemy, and he is us." - Pogo
That headline is priceless.
His performance may have drawn some gasps from the audience, but I doubt it had the same effect on his fan base. He was not there to speak to the US as a whole; he was there to speak to his die hard supporters - those who actually enjoy his racist, sexist, hateful remarks and voted for him in 2016 because of them; the same people who were willing to stage a coup in his favour in 2021, after four years of ignorance, pettiness and hatred.
His strategy against Biden was winning because it gathered him bipartisan support - even Democrats were dubious about Biden being able to do a good job - but now that that's out of the question, Trump has fallen back to his usual script, because it's too late to do anything else. After all, questioning Obama's birth and throwing sexist remarks against Clinton won him an election; why wouldn't it work again? Just stick to the fanbase that won you an election once and almost won you another the second time, and hope for the best.
People always talk about how he is doing things to please his fan base. Maybe. But they are at most 30% of the country and he needs more than that to win.
This is *not* going to help him with people who are *not* in his fan base.
I’d love to agree but gerrymandering, along with other dubious anti-democratic policies, means that Republicans have a gross advantage. This presidential election will probably be as close as the last.
Gerrymandering has nothing to do with a presidential election. It doesn't even help with senatorial elections.
Sure, but the Electoral College affords Republicans the same advantage in Presidential races.
If that were true, Biden wouldn't be president. Nor would Obama have.
He said that because Vivek sold out to the WASPs so completely that he figured Kamalas “indian half” should have as well. He thinks that because he was raised a Presbyterian. A racist one too. He’s a fucking idiot, what can you expect?
Vote, idiots.
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How are there two "pro border security" people up for election? Is there no meaningful opposition to that position?
I think Harris is trying to capture a group of Americans that hardlines on immigration, unfortunately some of what she'll concede on during this election cycle will likely alienate progressives in favor of tempting the opposition. It's strategically valuable because progressives will still vote for her, but maybe a few conservative voters will be swayed.
Imo it's more important to pay attention to how she's voted, how she acts, and whether she will change her mind when presented with important information. In that way she's by far our most trustworthy candidate even on issues like this one.
The bigots who buy the "migrant crime" narrative were always gonna vote Trump. Being the lesser evil holds no appeal to them. But the party covets votes it will never get and will throw marginalized people under as many buses as necessary in hopeless pursuit of the vote of the fictional "good" bigot.
Here's the dumbest part, the only problem with the American/Mexican border is that the U.S. is too slow at processing migrants and getting them into the country. The far-right has invented a narrative of a migrant crime wave requiring harsh restrictions at the border, the public bought the lie, and now Democrats are trying to pass legislation based on the lie to appeal to the public.