Does anyone think that person who made the racist comment was a plant by another Republican?

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41. What would it matter?

It's possible, but considering Trumps history it's not the only possibility. It could well have been a true believer/follower. Couldn't it have been?

What I don't get is how it matters. After what has come out of his mouth historically, how is this a thing to his followers?

He is who he is, and what he supports what he does. He's a birther and he's a bigot and racist. His base expects such from him. It's what they love the most about him. Make no mistakes on this. This is how low we've fallen as a nation. Some 40 something percent of their racist have come out of the closet to admit this is what they want.

Yeah, such doesn't sell on a national level. So what? It's still who he's been for years and what he's been branding himself as being for this run for president. It's him, he owns it. Even if he's reluctant to do so now that there's some small semblance of backlash for him being him. This is still who he is and what he has publicly stood behind.

This is the face of the 40+% of the Republican voters out there. We need to keep that in the front of our minds at all times. This is the reality of the people we're up against.