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He’s melting down. Just a matter of time before he says a slur in public. His fan base won’t care, but it’ll be enough to turn off fence-sitters and moderates.
i’m having a real hard time believing that anyone’s actually “on the fence” about whether to vote R or D at this point. i think they’re voting R and just don’t want to say it out loud
They’re called “low information voters”, the common clay of the new West.
You know...morons.
I lol’d
It's from this scene in Blazing Saddles if you weren't aware.
That’s why I lol’d
Gabby Johnson is RIGHT!
The real question at this point is who shows up to the poll booth. I'm not sure how much trump using the n word would depress his turnout or enthuse kamala turnout.
Him saying it out loud would probably make his turnout better, but also enthuse Harris turnout
I think and or hope theres a lot of people who will vote D but dont want their friends and family to know
I will admit, I don’t think we are as “in your face” as the Trumpers are. This is the first time I’ve been vocal. Just got my Cat Ladies for Kamala T-shirt in the mail today. 😻
There's probably a small cohort that would vote for him for tax or regulatory reasons that might get turned off by too much of this crap, but I don't it's electorally significant.
I have a real hard time believing in a mythical voter who has no problem with "grab 'em by the pussy" but draws the line at the hard-r n-word.
I think open sexism is more normalized than open racism. There's no "it's just boys being boys" or "locker-room talk" description of dropping the n-word.
Black conservatives blindly holding out hope it's not true that he's a racist?
If they're able to think that after all he's done, they'll find an excuse to ignore it just like everything else.
This is pretty par for the course. He called Biden a Palestinian *a while back.
*Was gonna say months ago but the time dilation on this campaign is ridiculous. Might've happened yesterday for all I can tell.
What's the over/under on him doing a hard-R before November?
At this pace I think it's almost a guarantee. Every time he does an interview it gets worse somehow.
Normally I'd say there's no way that he would have a slip of the tongue that egregious, but then I remember the several credible eyewitnesses that made statements saying that he used the n-word in private many times. I think if he really is struggling with his mental faculties, it's possible he could slide right into a racist tirade without realizing his audience isn't just some rich folk or old white advisor dudes who might share his views.