Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign is employing a decidedly different tactic than what President Joe Biden used when he ran against former President Donald Trump.Axios reports that while Biden's campaign presented Trump as a dire threat to the American republic, the Harris campaign has opted fo...
  • DharkStare@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Her quote never really felt that outrageous. She wasn’t even calling all Trump supporters “deplorable”. Here’s her quote

    “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.” She said the other half of Trump’s supporters “feel that the government has let them down” and are “desperate for change.” “Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well,” she said.

    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, as usual she was pretty astute. If she had her husbands charisma and wasent vilified unjustly for decades, the above would not have been turned against her.