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Trump’s New Rival May Bring Out His Harshest Instincts
The New York Times ^
| July 23, 2024, 5:03 a.m. ET
| Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Posted on 07/23/2024 10:25:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Donald J. Trump and his political team spent nearly two years tailoring a campaign to defeat an old white male president who is conspicuously frail and who most Americans had told pollsters they doubted could handle another four-year term.
Suddenly, Mr. Trump faces a starkly different opponent: a vice president who is a Black woman, nearly 20 years younger, and who brings her own strengths and weaknesses but who adds new uncertainty into what had been a remarkably static race.
Allies of Ms. Harris have already telegraphed that she will run a campaign framed around a “prosecutor versus felon” theme, highlighting her experience as a prosecutor and underscoring the fact that Mr. Trump has been indicted in multiple jurisdictions and convicted of 34 felonies.
The prosecutor-versus-felon approach may appeal to undecided voters who had been sour on both Mr. Trump and President Biden. It may also goad Mr. Trump, who reacts strongly to criticism, into resurrecting the language he has used against other Black female prosecutors, such as Letitia James in New York and Fani Willis in Georgia, both of whom he has called “racist” and attacked in personal terms.
In a preview of what’s to come, Ms. Harris made the prosecutor’s attack line explicit during an appearance on Monday, describing her past as the district attorney of San Francisco and the attorney general of California.
“In those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds: Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type,” she said.
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TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: gaslightmedia; haggiemaberman; jonathanswan; maggiehaberman; newgaslighttimes; newyorkgaslight; thegaslightmedia; thenewgaslighttimes; thenewyorkgaslight
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The New York Times is a fake news outlet. Every word it publishes is either a lie or projection. Article presented for the benefit of those who want to know what their enemy is up to, not for those who want to stick their collective heads up their collective Obamas and pretend it is nighttime.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Maggie “Gaslight” Haberman weighs in.
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posted on
07/23/2024 10:27:01 AM PDT
by
kiryandil
(FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Does anyone believe the Times?
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Harris has melanin but she is NOT “Black”.
Color her Caribbean.
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posted on
07/23/2024 10:28:00 AM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Or maybe not? Trump might decide that the smartest line is to treat KH as a lightweight, not to be taken seriously.
To: proxy_user
Heels-up can’t hit it 50 yards.
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posted on
07/23/2024 10:29:11 AM PDT
by
kiryandil
(FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Their assassin’s bullet missed.
Now they are back to their kangaroo courts.
I doubt if undecided voters are going to be swayed Democrat once they learn that the prosecutions in those cases are Democrat Party hacks.
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posted on
07/23/2024 10:29:48 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
a vice president who is a cackling, ignorant, unintelligent, gibbering, smarmy, phony, smirking whore; the descendant of Jamaican slave-peddlers and an Indian national.
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posted on
07/23/2024 10:31:45 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Who dreamed her up to be VP in the first place?
To: proxy_user
Listen to Kamala, the California Cackler, talk about
Space Travel If you dare ...
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posted on
07/23/2024 10:34:25 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I think Trump knows exactly how to not help when the enemy is self-destructing.
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posted on
07/23/2024 10:35:18 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Of course, this is the New York slimes. You can’t trust anything they say, they have proven that repeatedly over the last several decades. In this article, they start off by saying that Kamala Harris is a black woman. No, actually she isn’t. She is half Jamaican and half Indian. If she was qualified to be president, I don’t think anybody would have a problem with this. However, she has seemingly all of the mental infirmities of Joe Biden, without the excuse of, being old and having dementia. She’s already trailing in many poles, not the least reason for which is that the Democratic Party doesn’t even like her. She was rejected by Democrat voters resoundingly in 2020.
Besides, Walter has to do is saddle her with the failures of the Biden administration. That will not be the least bit difficult, especially since she was the “immigration czar” for an utterly failed policy - which she still backs.
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posted on
07/23/2024 10:36:53 AM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." - The Weapons Shops of Isher)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Putting racial armor around Kamala by calling her black even though she has probably very little African heritage. They pretend that they aren’t using the darker skin complexion as their proof.
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posted on
07/23/2024 10:37:14 AM PDT
by
webheart
To: lightman
Harris has melanin but she is NOT “Black”.The only black DNA in Harris is Willie Brown's.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Lawfare worked pretty well for them so far. Let them keep at it!
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posted on
07/23/2024 10:37:47 AM PDT
by
eclectic
(Liberalism is a mental disorder)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
...a vice president who is a Black woman
Stop your garbage right there. I would think this would be offensive to black women.
To: NorthMountain
Thanks. I could use a good dose of “intellectual heft” about now.
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posted on
07/23/2024 10:38:36 AM PDT
by
Blennos
( Byaasearepeat itnbelow.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The NYT is now treating us to things Trump may do. This is commonly known as "making sh*t up".
To: E. Pluribus Unum
She’s not a Black woman. You two pixie honkies need to wake up. Sbe’s an Indo/Caribbeaner. You idiots need to get real jobs.
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posted on
07/23/2024 10:40:09 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Hi! I'm Fling. My pronouns are Dem, Deez and Doze. )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
07/23/2024 10:42:29 AM PDT
by
TornadoAlley3
( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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