39 second YouTube video.
He’s desperately looking for an Indian name he can give her that his mouth breathers would recognize. If he went with Indira, he’d have to include the Ghandi, and then they would be derailed thinking about the bald guy.
The risk there is that tagging Kamala as “Usha” (or whatever) creates collateral damage for Mrs. Usha (JD) Vance.
Not that Trump would care – of course. Neither would the horribly craven, deliciously Machiavellian, shockingly invertebrate JD Vance.
But some voters might.
It’s akin to when Trump attacked New York Justice, Juan Merchan for his country of origin (Colombia), apparently not realizing that his lapdog, Judge Aileen Cannon, was also born there.
Every racist, xenophobic, and intolerant thing Trump says is a highwire act. His supporters really can’t vote twice, and he risks losing moderates that he so desperately needs.
The same way Donnie’s own kids are half asshole, half gold digger.
And anchor babies to boot.
The Harris campaign could just as easily say this about Donald Trump:
The difference from Harris, of course, is that she truly does have both Indian and Black heritages.
Trump’s claim to be of Swedish heritage was a family lie, to enable them to make more money:
…assdigger?
I like to think that if the cowardly asshole stayed the whole hour they would have gotten to the Central Park 5, with the full page call for their executions projected large.
I don’t think you can say “write themselves” when they’re all made up. But I think I get what you mean: the Republican talking points which land best in polling are inflation and the border, so some way to taint Harris with those things is probably their most effective strategy.
Yes – I’m not saying that their attacks have any validity. But these are clearly the lines of attack that have the most promise. Instead, we’re having weird conversations about whether she can be black AND Indian, a concept that 99% of voters don’t have a problem reconciling.
Oops mistake
And he’s already used Pocahontas.
They are still trying to convince the stupid ones. The stupid ones are a lot more than 1%. There is a picture bouncing around the internet of Harris and her “parents.” The other two people in the picture appear to be Indian. Google is free and her father was a prominent Stanford professor so it’s not hard to find a picture of him. Now I don’t know if it’s directly from the campaign or from elsewhere but that disinformation is out there.
I just cannot imagine that this election is going to be won or lost over an argument about whether Kamala Harris is black. The people for whom this is an “issue” are already voting for Trump. The election is going to be won by whomever can get independents and slight leaners to break their way. And these voters care about what’s going on with their household budgets and are susceptible to fears about an “unsecured border.” Republicans have now spent four days completely sidetracked from these issues because of Trump’s mouth.
Welcome to the internet age of politics. Whether it comes from the campaign, internet trolls or foreign actors it doesn’t matter. The individual memes, lies or fringe issues don’t matter. The point is to create a cloud of negativity around a candidate so when a low information voter looks at the name on the ballot they don’t like it even if they can’t articulate why. Will it affect more voters than the issues? Probably not. Will it affect enough? Ask Hillary Clinton.
I suspect they are not the intended audience. Trump had made progress vs Biden specifically with younger Black men and while not included in the polling data I saw, likely lower income.
He wants to cut off any sense of “she one of us” play to them in particular. And from what I can read that explicit approach wouldn’t play effectively to that group. She is indeed intersectional. And overall I suspect young lower income Black men will not strongly identify with her by way of identity solidarity.
Unfortunately what he accomplished is counterproductive to his goal. She doesn’t play any “Black card”; he has played it for her.
My WAG is that that specific group would not react well to her “I was that little girl” type of deprived Black childhood spiel. But will react in solidarity when her Blackness is attacked by a white dude.
Her parents were a PhD biomedical scientist and a Stanford economics professor. Regardless of race I don’t think the deprived childhood spiel would work for her.
Not saying she had an easy childhood coming from a broken home with what appears to be a distant father both emotionally and physically. But on paper it looks like a privileged background
The one I’ve seen going around has the caption “This is a picture of Kamala less than a year after she decided to be black.” It’s a picture of her father holding her as an infant.