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 • 3 months ago • 14 commentsBy: Ken Bensinger Karen Yourish and Michael Gold (nytimes)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
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.
New York Times
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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The MAGA Stooges are throwbacks to the 50's.
This works perfectly for Harris & Walz on 2024!
And yet, even the fake polls remain close.
Good luck in November …..
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...
Good luck in November.
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.
Well, I wasn’t talking to you but I can.
Good luck in November.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe. IMO, most folks already knew that Trump wasn't a fiscal conservative.
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.
The same place as the "keep the government out of my healthcare" folks.
trump's thumper base won't let him do anything on IVF that doesn't strictly conform to their dogma and theocratic agenda...