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    From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to All on Mon Oct 28 18:28:06 2024
    Trump Team Fears Damage From Racist Rally Remarks

    The Trump campaign issued a rare statement distancing itself from a
    comedian's offensive joke about Puerto Rico at his rally on Sunday, a sign
    that it was concerned about losing crucial votes.

    SOURCE: The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/us/politics/trump-msg-rally-backlash.html

    "Donald J. Trump and his allies are full of bravado over his chances of victory in the closing days of the 2024 campaign. But there are signs, publicly and privately, that the former president and his team are worried that their opponents' descriptions of him as a racist and a fascist may be breaking through to segments of voters.

    "That anxiety was clear after Mr. Trump's six-hour event at Madison Square Garden in New York City, where the inflammatory speeches on Sunday included an opening act by a comedian known for a history of racist jokes who derided Puerto Rico as 'a floating island of garbage' and talked about Black people carving watermelons."

    So, we are starting to do well with Latino and Black voters... how 'bout we open our next rally with a racist comedian?!? If Trump loses in November, he will only have his campaign to blame.

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Mike Powell on Mon Oct 28 19:28:02 2024
    So, we are starting to do well with Latino and Black voters... how 'bout we open our next rally with a racist comedian?!? If Trump loses in November, he will only have his campaign to blame.

    The comedian shouldn't have been there, and Trump should have condemned the guy's joke immediately, or at least as soon as it was Trump's turn to talk.

    We need every vote we can get and that crap probably cost us a few.

    But the media overreacted to it. Sunny Hostin replied to the comment and directed her reply to Trump as if he were the one who made the comment. That's like me blaming Sunny Hostin for things that Joy Bejar said.

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Aaron Thomas on Mon Oct 28 22:19:08 2024
    We need every vote we can get and that crap probably cost us a few.

    This crap also cost you a few..

    https://youtu.be/DJWmLoa5DoA

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Alan Ianson on Tue Oct 29 06:06:24 2024
    We need every vote we can get and that crap probably cost us a few.

    This crap also cost you a few..

    https://youtu.be/DJWmLoa5DoA

    Yes, but it was worth a try.

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