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Brace Yourself for an Ugly, Ugly Campaign
September 4, 2024 at 5:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 105 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/09/04/brace-yourself-for-an-ugly-ugly-campaign/
"SNIP............
Stephen Collinson: Trumps invective amounts to some of the most hardline political rhetoric in years, even by his own standards, and means the next two months are likely to be brutal.
The question is whether this barrage of negative attacks is merely successful in stoking feelings of existential anger Trump uses to drive his base the polls, or whether it begins to tarnish Harris at the margins in battleground states.
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Think of it this way: The 1988 Bush campaigns Willie Horton ad was the subject of controversy for years for exploiting racially-charged imagery.
But this year: Trumps campaign is firing off Willie Horton-style attacks every single day on television, social media, and in hundreds of thousands of mailers. And the media basically shrugs it off as Trump being Trump.
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(30,383 posts)It's about time. Biden and Harris should lean on Egypt hard for the facts ASAP or else.