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Harwood: Trump Fixated On Race, "Trying To Alarm White Voters About Black And Brown People"
RCP video ^ | 6-27-2020 | Ian Schwartz

Posted on 06/28/2020 6:01:31 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

CNN White House correspondent John Harwood said President Trump's reelection strategy is to use his fixation on race to rile up white voters about "black and brown people" in the United States.

LEMON: The president is downplaying the pandemic as some kids with sniffles and rambling about race and black people thanking him and on and on. I would like to know who those black people are. But, why? Why is he doing this?

JOHN HARWOOD, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Don, the president is fixated on two distinct ideas. One is that he had this strong economy that was going to, he was going to surf to re-election until he was hit out of the blue by this pandemic.

Now, he didn't build the greatest economy in the world as he says but he is fixated on that. So, what he is trying to do is get back to that by in essence wishing the pandemic away trying to avoid focus on it and shift back to the economy.

The second thing he is fixated on is the idea that racial conflict works for him. It worked for him in 2016 to get the Republican nomination and the presidency. And so, he is beating that drum. Trying to alarm white voters about black and brown people in the United States.

The problem that he has is that the polls show it's not working, in particular it's not working among whites. He carried whites against Hillary Clinton by 20 points in 2016. In the polling that gap narrowed substantially for -- in the direction of Joe Biden. He's got big problems.


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Another obvious case where/when the media hacks miss the punching bags of GW Bush, Willard Romney, and other spineless GOPs. President Trump does not follow the previously established DC "protocol", he fights and has been fighting, sometimes seemingly all by himself.

1) Trump didn't BUILD the greatest economic comeback, American people did. He just made sure gubmint did not stand in our way.

2) OKay, polls show those white voters he carried in 2016 are now going to vote for Joementia Biden. ===> Good luck with these capricious myopic morons. If Harwood is to be believed in the first place.

1 posted on 06/28/2020 6:01:31 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

Yet another example of the Left accusing their opponents of exactly what they’re doing. Standard Alinsky tactic. Trump is fixated on race? Seriously?

The Democrat party is like a crazed monkey throwing its feces around its cage over race these days. White Privilege, “Institution Racism™” blah blah blah. The only thing I’ve heard President Trump say about race lately is to mention the decrease in black unemployment he helped bring about prior to the Pandemic.


2 posted on 06/28/2020 6:05:59 AM PDT by Junk Silver (If we're "all in this together" name one government employee or bureaucrat who has been laid off.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Can’t wait for November. Will vote for President Trump if the line is 2 miles long.


3 posted on 06/28/2020 6:06:47 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sir Napsalot

and these protests/riots aren’t meant to spin up the black vote??? especially since it all started right after Biden stuck his foot in his mouth with the “you aint black” comment.


4 posted on 06/28/2020 6:07:48 AM PDT by BobinIL
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To: Sir Napsalot

Why does anybody care what a CNN Correspondent thinks? When is ATT going to fire Jeff Zucker and sell CNN?


5 posted on 06/28/2020 6:07:57 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Sir Napsalot

RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. .RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM. RACISM.


6 posted on 06/28/2020 6:08:11 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Projection, it’s what Progressives do

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Righteous_Mind

According to Haidt, Conservatives understand Liberals far better than Liberals understand Conservatives. When it comes to morality, conservatives are more broad-minded than liberals.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-righteous-mind-by-jonathan-haidt.html


7 posted on 06/28/2020 6:08:19 AM PDT by HangnJudge (When one is in a house of mirrors, everywhere you stand is “center)
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To: Sir Napsalot

:Harwood is either full of shit or he has an incredibly Biden-like attention or retention span.


8 posted on 06/28/2020 6:08:56 AM PDT by yardboyd (Call me a rose.... or leave me alone.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

This prof married liar was fired after he was caught having a
Affair with a Lefty Dem senator Cantwell .
Yet CNN hires the evil bastard .


9 posted on 06/28/2020 6:09:45 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists)
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To: goodnesswins

Who is Harwood? What are his credentials. Is he KNOWN to be trustworthy? Never heard of him!


10 posted on 06/28/2020 6:10:42 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Sacajaweau

I also have to take issue with the Left’s constant mention of “Brown People”. What exactly are “Brown People”? Latino/Hispanics? People from India?

All the Indians and Latinos I know work their asses off and are successful. I don’t think many of them consider themselves to be aligned with the rioters (i.e. Liberal whites and blacks). I haven’t seen any “Brown People” looting anything, although there have been several cases of Mexican Americans sending out armed Militias to guard their neighborhoods


11 posted on 06/28/2020 6:11:31 AM PDT by Junk Silver (If we're "all in this together" name one government employee or bureaucrat who has been laid off.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Racism is a weapon of the Military Industrial Complex/deep state and has been around for a long times.


12 posted on 06/28/2020 6:11:51 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

scum is as scum does.


13 posted on 06/28/2020 6:12:23 AM PDT by chief lee runamok
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To: Sir Napsalot

Yup, nothing says yer a racist like engineering the economy that had the lowest unemployment figs on record for people of color.

Meanwhile, on the pols busily destroying that economy...crickets.


14 posted on 06/28/2020 6:21:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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"said President Trump's reelection strategy is to use his fixation on race to rile up white voters about "black and brown people" in the United States."

And the Democrats' election strategy for any election - to use their fixation on race to rile up black and brown voters about white people in the United States.

15 posted on 06/28/2020 6:22:23 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Sir Napsalot
WRT poll numbers (pushed by NYT/Siena Polls)

From NYT (webpage archive, not link to NYT) -

Most stark may be Mr. Biden’s towering advantage among white women with college degrees, who support him over Mr. Trump by 39 percentage points. In 2016, exit polls found that group preferred Mrs. Clinton to Mr. Trump by just 7 percentage points. The poll also found that Mr. Biden has narrowed Mr. Trump’s advantage with less-educated white voters. [Emphasis added]

The exodus of white voters from the G.O.P. has been especially pronounced among younger voters, an ominous trend for a party that was already heavily reliant on older Americans. [Emphasis added]

Fifty-two percent of whites under 45 said they supported Mr. Biden while only 30 percent said they supported Mr. Trump. And their opposition is intense: More than twice as many younger whites viewed the president very unfavorably than very favorably. [Emphasis added]

(hattip to John Binder @ Breitbart)

16 posted on 06/28/2020 6:25:57 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I think he’s confusing Trump with the Democrats.


17 posted on 06/28/2020 6:28:03 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: goodnesswins

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18 posted on 06/28/2020 6:33:07 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: Sir Napsalot

for a dummiecrap to say that Trump is fixated on race is projection by a collectivist lefturd loon who wants group warfare


19 posted on 06/28/2020 6:34:23 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Sir Napsalot

Ask him how Maria Cantwell is doing


20 posted on 06/28/2020 6:35:11 AM PDT by Lod881019
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