Donald Trump on Wednesday night falsely smeared Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as a “proud member of Hamas.”
The Republican presidential nominee made the insulting remark about the top-ranking U.S. Jewish official at a rally in Pennsylvania. It came on the same day that Trump separately sparked an angry backlash for questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity.
He’s melting down. Just a matter of time before he says a slur in public. His fan base won’t care, but it’ll be enough to turn off fence-sitters and moderates.
i’m having a real hard time believing that anyone’s actually “on the fence” about whether to vote R or D at this point. i think they’re voting R and just don’t want to say it out loud
The real question at this point is who shows up to the poll booth. I’m not sure how much trump using the n word would depress his turnout or enthuse kamala turnout.
Him saying it out loud would probably make his turnout better, but also enthuse Harris turnout
They’re called “low information voters”, the common clay of the new West.
You know…morons.
Gabby Johnson is RIGHT!
I lol’d
It’s from this scene in Blazing Saddles if you weren’t aware.
That’s why I lol’d
I think and or hope theres a lot of people who will vote D but dont want their friends and family to know
I will admit, I don’t think we are as “in your face” as the Trumpers are. This is the first time I’ve been vocal. Just got my Cat Ladies for Kamala T-shirt in the mail today. 😻
There’s probably a small cohort that would vote for him for tax or regulatory reasons that might get turned off by too much of this crap, but I don’t it’s electorally significant.
I have a real hard time believing in a mythical voter who has no problem with “grab 'em by the pussy” but draws the line at the hard-r n-word.
I think open sexism is more normalized than open racism. There’s no “it’s just boys being boys” or “locker-room talk” description of dropping the n-word.
Black conservatives blindly holding out hope it’s not true that he’s a racist?
If they’re able to think that after all he’s done, they’ll find an excuse to ignore it just like everything else.
Normally I’d say there’s no way that he would have a slip of the tongue that egregious, but then I remember the several credible eyewitnesses that made statements saying that he used the n-word in private many times. I think if he really is struggling with his mental faculties, it’s possible he could slide right into a racist tirade without realizing his audience isn’t just some rich folk or old white advisor dudes who might share his views.
What’s the over/under on him doing a hard-R before November?
At this pace I think it’s almost a guarantee. Every time he does an interview it gets worse somehow.
This is pretty par for the course. He called Biden a Palestinian *a while back.
*Was gonna say months ago but the time dilation on this campaign is ridiculous. Might’ve happened yesterday for all I can tell.