Team Trump believes questioning Harris’ racial identity is smart politics — and is behind him “100 percent,” says a person close to Trump. Donald Trump’s comments on Wednesday questioning whether Vice President Kamala Harris is Black were not an off-the-cuff expression of racism, but part of a broader campaign strategy that Trump and many of his key lieutenants plan to make a heavy focus of their final three-month sprint to retake the White House. As unhinged as this sounds — and is — Team Trump believes this is a politically smart message, according to three people on and close to the 2024 Trump-Vance campaign. In their private conversations, Trump and some of his closest advisers appear to believe that leveling this attack as loudly as they could help sell the idea that Harris is a “phony” in the minds of independent voters. Trump believes he wins battles when he gets to define the messaging terrain and have Democrats and his media nemeses fight him on his terms (hence, Trump’s deep annoyance at Harris and Democrats’ relentless drive to call him, J.D. Vance, and other conservative leaders “weird”). So, Trump and his allies have been reveling in this line of racial-identity sniping, hoping to bait Democratic leaders into a mud fight. Some Trump advisers have even argued — including long before Trump began this Harris-isn’t-Black crusade — that painting Harris as inauthentically Black could potentially resonate with certain Black voters, particularly disaffected, young men — who are already skeptical of Harris and President Joe Biden. The sources stressed that Trump’s comments were not — as has been the case numerous times in his campaigns and during his administration — a situation in which the former president has gone rogue on the stump and indulged his own lack of political impulse control. (These sources in the past have generally had no trouble privately admitting it when that has been the case.) Rather, this is a case of Trump and an array of his aides and influential allies settling on a race-baiting strategy that they are, for the time being at least, convinced will work out well for them in this presidential election.
Yes! This was what I was hoping. The trump campaign is run by dudes who just interact with other dudes doom scrolling about trans people and wokeness so they have no clue what a normal voter cares about.
Conservatives used to have a home in the Democratic Party as a means to keep the status quo. But when FDR went progressive, conservatives in the GOP took the initiative and staked a claim and used the southern strategy to effectively flip the electorate.
You mean when he was already separated from his wife. I god forbid what a sin. So comparable to sleeping with a p*rn star while married. Unbelievable how dumb this is gettting from you.
Cities are generally more liberal than rural areas. Democrats and Republicans are not inherently one or the other.
they somehow think normal people have never heard of a biracial person…they somehow think white people thinking they can say who is and isn’t black is a good look these are the same people who chose JD Vance for VP, so I’m not surprised they think this is a good strategy they all have right wing terminally online brain rot
Red were republican in the pre-Trump world while blue went democrat and green were toss ups. Trump’s coalition is circled and it wrangled around the key democratic voters that people like Hilary took for granted but he absolutely alienated key republican voters. The parties are realigning.
