Trump’s Racist Attacks on Kamala Harris Are Part of a Larger, Unhinged Plan

Rolling Stone via Yahoo ^ | August 2nd, 2024 | Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez

[Mariner]

Donald Trump’s comments on Wednesday questioning whether Vice President Kamala Harris is Black were not an off-the-cuff expression of racism, but part of a broader campaign strategy that Trump and many of his key lieutenants plan to make a heavy focus of their final three-month sprint to retake the White House.

Asked on Wednesday about Republicans accusing Harris of being a “DEI hire” or “DEI candidate,” Trump responded by questioning Harris’ racial identity. “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black,” he said, adding: “She made a turn, and she became a Black person, and I think somebody should look into that.”

As unhinged as this sounds — and is — Team Trump believes this is a politically smart message, according to three people on and close to the 2024 Trump-Vance campaign. In their private conversations, Trump and some of his closest advisers appear to believe that leveling this attack as loudly as they could help sell the idea that Harris is a “phony” in the minds of independent voters. Trump believes he wins battles when he gets to define the messaging terrain and have Democrats and his media nemeses fight him on his terms (hence, Trump’s deep annoyance at Harris and Democrats’ relentless drive to call him, J.D. Vance, and other conservative leaders “weird”). So, Trump and his allies have been reveling in this line of racial-identity sniping, hoping to bait Democratic leaders into a mud fight.

[Mariner]

She's not an authentic American Black woman.

[glorgau]

She’s also tossed her Indian card.

[Rastus]

Is Rolling Stone really still a thing or is it just digital (on Yahoo, I guess?)?

[Steely Tom]

Trump’s Racist Attacks on Kamala Harris Are Part of a Larger, Unhinged Plan

What happened to "weird" ?

[Jeff Chandler]

The Democrats ALWAYS use the race card. The Republicans ALWAYS assume the fetal position in the face of the race card.

Not this time.

[Indy Pendance]

Is the word for the week “Unhinged”?

[lightman]

(With apologies to all good and Godly Tamaras and derivatives)

She is the ultimate TAMI

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[Jane Long]

Rolling Kidney Stones still shilling for the commies.

[Mariner]

“Not this time.”

RACIST!! Ain’t what it used to be.

[Trailerpark Badass]

They’re waiting to resurrect “dark message.”

[reasonisfaith]

At that level, if you’re still against Trump you probably have some very bad things in your closet.

[farmguy]

The left sees everything through racist colored eyeballs.

[OttawaFreeper]

Rolling Stone, they who contributed “A Rape on Campus” to the annals of journalism.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Candace Owens is an authentic American Black Woman.

[Phoenix8]

Every time R.S. Makes some Marxist article I just remind everyone of something. The time they glorified a terrorist who bombed the Boston Marathon with glamor shots of him.

[Dogbert41]

Rolling Stones Via Yahoo and the CIA.

[frank ballenger]

Still around in the few brick and mortar book stores and some others.

With tongs someone can pick up a reeking copy if they so desire.

[mass55th]

LOL!! Rolling Stone. The same rag that had to airbrush a bulge in Al Gore’s pants.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I’m waiting for Paul McCartney to diss him. To reporters his response will be ‘you people are mistaken-Paul is dead’. Have you ever listened to a Wing’s album?

[cowboyusa]

They have to keep talking about this because they have nothing.