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Trump Keeps Turning Up the Dial on Vulgarity. Will He Alienate the Voters He Needs? - The New York Times

  

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Via:  jbb  •  4 months ago  •  14 comments

By:   Ken Bensinger Karen Yourish and Michael Gold (nytimes)

Trump Keeps Turning Up the Dial on Vulgarity. Will He Alienate the Voters He Needs? - The New York Times
Donald J. Trump has been reposting racially and sexually charged insults of Kamala Harris, continuing a history of crass attacks. But in Ms. Harris, he may have found a particularly risky target.

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Donald J. Trump has been reposting racially and sexually charged insults of Kamala Harris, continuing a history of crass attacks. But in Ms. Harris, he may have found a particularly risky target.

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By Ken Bensinger, Karen Yourish and Michael Gold

Aug. 29, 2024

Over his decades in the public eye, former President Donald J. Trump has a well-established history of making degrading and racist remarks about women, people of color and pretty much anyone else who crosses his path.

It is a proclivity that dates to his days as a reality television star and that has only expanded in the meme-driven era of social media. In the words of Senator Kevin Cramer, Republican of North Dakota, Mr. Trump is "an equal opportunity offender."

But in Vice President Kamala Harris, Mr. Trump has found a particularly complicated and risky target for his trademark brand of transgression, as more Americans are suddenly tuning in to what has become a highly competitive race.

Although there are no clear signs that Mr. Trump has increased the quantity of abuse he levels at his opponents, his decision to repost a string of sexually and racially charged broadsides in recent weeks suggests that he has turned up the dial when it comes to pure vulgarity and crudeness.

That eagerness to offend is likely to receive increased scrutiny as the election enters its final stretch. With both major parties battling for female and moderate swing-state voters, Mr. Trump could potentially alienate an undecided audience uncomfortable with his coarse rhetoric.

Since July 21, when President Biden stepped out of the race and endorsed Ms. Harris, Mr. Trump has directed a seemingly constant fusillade of invective at a challenger who happens to be Black, South Asian and female.


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JBB
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1  seeder  JBB    4 months ago

The MAGA Stooges are throwbacks to the 50's.

This works perfectly for Harris & Walz on 2024!

original

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
2  Sparty On    4 months ago

And yet, even the fake polls remain close.

Good luck in November …..

 
 
 
JBB
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2.1  seeder  JBB  replied to  Sparty On @2    4 months ago

No, polls show Harris ahead the swing states.

The popular vote was never going to be close!

Every day in every way it is dawning on MAGA...

original And, Trump is being a deplorable chicken shit...original

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
2.1.1  Sparty On  replied to  JBB @2.1    4 months ago

Good luck in November.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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2.1.2  Gsquared  replied to  Sparty On @2.1.1    4 months ago

Thanks for your good wishes, but luck has nothing to do with it.  The completely bizarre maga candidates, starting with Trump and Vance, and their extremist unAmerican/antiAmerican policy positions are boosting Democrats up and down the ballot.

 
 
 
Sparty On
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2.1.3  Sparty On  replied to  Gsquared @2.1.2    4 months ago

Well, I wasn’t talking to you but I can.

Good luck in November.

 
 
 
evilone
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3  evilone    4 months ago

How much will the policy change announcement to cover IVF cost Trump? I was reading a number of Republicans say it was a non-starter even one at the campaign event with him last night.

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
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3.1  sandy-2021492  replied to  evilone @3    4 months ago

I doubt it will cost him anything, TBH.  His base has shown that they are fine with him making promises he can't keep in order to pander.  Mexico will pay for the wall, beautiful new healthcare plan, etc.  They cheer and say how great it is that he's going to do that, then promptly forget that those promises were ever made when he inevitably fails to keep them.

 
 
 
evilone
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3.1.1  evilone  replied to  sandy-2021492 @3.1    4 months ago
I doubt it will cost him anything, TBH.

It won't cost him his base, but it may cost him some fiscal conservative independents. This IVF plan coupled with his promise to bring back his tax cuts would result in record deficits. 

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
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3.1.2  sandy-2021492  replied to  evilone @3.1.1    4 months ago
but it may cost him some fiscal conservative independents.

Maybe.  IMO, most folks already knew that Trump wasn't a fiscal conservative.

 
 
 
Hal A. Lujah
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3.2  Hal A. Lujah  replied to  evilone @3    4 months ago

Where are the folks who were hyper critical about Biden forgiving student loans because it’s unfair to those who already paid theirs off themselves?  Isn’t it the same thing?  IVF isn’t cheap.

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
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3.2.1  sandy-2021492  replied to  Hal A. Lujah @3.2    4 months ago

The same place as the "keep the government out of my healthcare" folks.

 
 
 
Hal A. Lujah
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3.2.3  Hal A. Lujah  replied to  sandy-2021492 @3.2.1    4 months ago

384

 
 
 
devangelical
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3.3  devangelical  replied to  evilone @3    4 months ago

trump's thumper base won't let him do anything on IVF that doesn't strictly conform to their dogma and theocratic agenda...

 
 

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