# Trump's Republican primary campaign

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 3, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828 "2015-09-03T18:00:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3876 "2016-04-20T22:46:31Z")

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> [@Hank\_Beecher](#):
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> Wait…what…??
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> Let me listen to it again…
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> Oh I see what you mean, because of the “exterminator” term.
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> That’s not how I read it, since as far as I am aware, if you call an exterminator to get a raccoon out of your basement she will set live traps and relocate the raccoon.

But, you know very well that that is not what the intended audience hears. The intended audience does not even hear the first syllable in “raccoon,” and you know that too. Your astoundingly persistent denial of the very existence of dog-whistle messaging is entirely disingenuous and in no way credible. Give it up.

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