Republicans reel at Trump’s “embarrassing” remarks about Harris to Black journalists

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/31/house-senate-republicans-trump-nabj-interview

37 comments

  1. Really? Is it enough to cause a single Republican to pull their support from him?

  2. So is Trump German or Scottish? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BOTH!?

    How can they not wrap their head around the idea of having parents with different backgrounds?

  3. One of the responses mentioned in the article is Larry Hogan having put out a completely milquetoast, no names named, “Hey, guys, let’s stop being racist,” tweet, and the responses on it are pretty much uniformly the usual filth that makes up Twitter going, “Change parties if you don’t support being openly racist, asshole!”

  4. > it raised concerns about whether Trump can contain his impulses

    If his impulses are racism and misogyny, what does that say about his character, or lack there of?

  5. This started an hr late because he wouldn’t go on if there was live fact checking

  6. Yet, Republicans will not condemn their racist-in-chief.

  7. Any idea what evidence he’s referencing to claim she failed her law exam? It sounded like it came from a personal letter or something. Definitely weird.

    >claiming she “**failed her law exam,** so maybe she wouldn’t pass a cognitive test.” Harris passed the bar exam and was the attorney general of California.

  8. They’re attracted to his narcissistic psychopathic grifting because he allows and encourages their racist, misogynistic, homophobic tendencies.

  9. >“That was not a demonstration on how to win over undecided voters,” another House Republican said.

    I’d love to hear this guys takes on any number of historical disasters.

  10. Murkowski Is one committee chairmanship away from declaring herself an independent. She’s so done with this circus.

  11. not on r/Conservative they sure as shit don’t. they’re over there saying he came into a “scorpions’ nest” and “won the crowd over”. bunch of delusional racists, that’s all it is at this point. it’s racists vs non racists and as trump devolves into increasingly unveiled attacks, we’re soon to find out who there’s more of.

  12. Today was the day where Trump sounded worse than Biden did, during the June debate.

    Trump pretty much dug his own grave, shot and buried himself.

    Unless I’m mistaken, most people of color will refer to today’s aborted interview with black journalists as the reason they got out en masse, and voted for Harris.

  13. Is it just me or does impulse control now count as a presidential quality? Wonder which side of the fam Trump scored that gem from..

  14. They’re actually leaning into it, which is insane. Watch some of the clips at his rally, they’re all talking about how “Kamala isn’t black,” it’s awful.

  15. > Trump also said he would challenge Harris to a cognitive test, claiming she “failed her law exam, so maybe she wouldn’t pass a cognitive test.”

    lmao I missed this one. Dude doesn’t have new material.

  16. Have to actually have a sense of shame to be embarrassed.

  17. Are they Embarrassing? /r/conservative insists “this is just how he talks” and “he went into the scorpions nest and did what he always does” and “kamala was invited and she turned it down, lets see her speak in front of evangelical christians”

  20. Harris should challenge him to take the US citizenship test.

  22. It’s the same shit he says at his rallies. The only difference is the audience wasn’t filled with a bunch of weird people cheering it on.

  23. They dont care about the racism. They care that hes losing independents and is dooming their chances

  24. For most adults in America, this burns your career to the ground. Not for the leader of the Republican Party tho. Just another day at the office.

    “Idk why people are so upset, he sounds the same as he did in 2016” 🙈

  25. Sen Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said of the Trump campaign: “Maybe they don’t know how to handle the campaign, and so you default to issues that just should simply not be an issue.”

    Murkowski rattled off a litany of what she described as “very unfortunate” recent Trumpworld missteps: “Childless cat women, DEI candidates, now, ‘Is she black? Is she Indian?’”

    Lol. She’s voting for Trump. I guarantee it.

  26. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told reporters: “I haven’t seen them and I haven’t seen the context in which they were made, so I don’t have anything for you.”

    Yes he has seen and heard them, and okay with the comments. Kennedy is cut from the same cloth as David Duke.

  27. I think the main issue is that a lot of people either won’t see this, will see it but not believe it, or will see it and not care because it’s “Trump being Trump”. One of the worst consequences of Trump for America is the desensitization of scandal.

  28. I think that since Harris joined the party, his chances really started to dwindle but I believe that this might be the actual death spiral for him and his campaign(fingers crossed).

    Also he’s definitely going to say the N word at some point

  29. i rarely watch politicians of any party speak. after 40 yrs of voting, i just want to read what they said. but i watched a fair amount of this event because it sounded really bad from the headlines. and i agree it was pretty bad, but the thing that struck me the most (besides his horrible responses of course) was how TFG pronounced the word “black”. he seemed to drag it out in an unnatural fashion kind of like “ok, i don’t want to say this word, but i have to, so here it is”

    from the article linked…i’m glad i wasn’t the only one who noticed it.

    *He declared himself the best president since Abraham Lincoln for “the Black population”. He pushed back on the idea that Kamala Harris would identify as Black. (“She was Indian, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went.”) He enunciated the word with such contempt, as if coughing up a hairball – buh-LAAAAA-kuh.*

  30. To any and all republicans. You don’t have to vote for Harris. You can simply not vote at all. Every vote that Trump *doesn’t* get is just as good as a vote for Harris.

    I believe Harris is going to win. The Dems are motivated and all in. Trump’s authoritarian rhetoric and weird, erratic, demented behavior are really beginning to turn people off.

    Not to mention how evil and un-American Project 2025 is as a manifesto.

    So if you’re a hardline Republican that isn’t in the MAGA Cult, just don’t vote. You could still vote in state and local elections, though I suspect many of those candidates will be MAGA Cultists, but you can simply leave the presidential election empty.

    Democrats not voting is one of the reasons Trump won in 2016.

    Republicans not voting could be part of the reason he loses in 2024.

    This is the end for him, or it’s the end for the 248 year social experiment known as The United States of America.

    *The lowest turn out of GOP voters in history might just save the reputation of Republican Party.

  31. If you watch the coverage on Fox’s YouTube channel there’s a bunch of bots that joined like a month ago and have zero posts or follower history and they’re all commenting shit like, “*as a black woman I find Trump’s words incredibly inspiring.*” 😂

  32. So, I’m beginning to think that Trump is actively trying to lose this election. Maybe he is satisfied with what the Supreme Court did and thinks that he has completely avoided any future legal consequences, which is most likely the main reason that he ran for president again. Maybe he has shored up enough funding through his DJT stock, or stolen enough donation money from his constituents and knows that he’s actually already achieved his goals. Grift all that he can and get the legal issues dismissed. Every decision he’s made and every word he has spoken recently have been absolutely unbelievable. He wants attention and power without all of the work involved.

    I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but something just doesn’t feel right about any of this lately. Maybe it’s just a glitch in the matrix.

  33. I’ve heard Vance is considering removing Trump from the ticket.

  34. Then Trump did a rally in Pennsylvania tonight and he double down on it. So did every other speaker as well as the right wing commentators.

  35. We are incredibly lucky that Trump is so stupid, he’s a complete imbecile.

    If he was smart we would be royally screwed

  36. Republicans: get ready for more, it ain’t stopping anytime soon. Also – y’all enabled him so OWN IT.

  37. They’re voting for a rapist con artist who wants to have sex with his daughter, so this stuff won’t matter either, unfortunately.

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