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no_hypocrisy

(46,080 posts)
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 07:07 PM Jul 2019

Does Trump believe that he can garner more white voters by attacking cities and

Elijah Cummings while simultaneously inviting more African American voters by making futile gestures like trying to interfere with the Swedish criminal justice system and getting A$AP Rocky out of jail as well as the country?

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empedocles

(15,751 posts)
1. Suspect trump is not trying to broaden his base, as to start mobilizing his existing base
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 07:10 PM
Jul 2019

for future 'resistance'.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
4. Wapo's E. Robinson's article today headlines, 'Rump is acting as though he knows he'll lose in 2020'
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 07:49 PM
Jul 2019

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
3. Yes, that is obvious.
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 07:44 PM
Jul 2019

Suburbanites whose kids are giving them shit about voting for Trump grab onto any liferaft to justify doing so in 2020. Trump gives them a way to mask their racism.

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
6. Yes, and it will work with a certain segment of the white population.
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 07:55 PM
Jul 2019

There are PLENTY of people here in Wisconsin (in the rural parts mostly) who hear Trump's racist dog whistles and respond approvingly.

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