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Do people think Trump recent tweets and subsequent comments about the so called squad help or hurt him?
The case that they hurt him is:
1) it distracts from talking about the economy and an optimistic "morning in America" type message that may help him win over moderate and broaden his base.
2) His approval ratings have been consistently low despite the economy and his reputation for racial division seems to be among the chief culprits.
The case it helps him:
1) negative campaigns work. It drives up his negatives, but it hurts the Democrats by elevating the Squad as the face of the party. The squad is unpopular for a variety of reasons ranging from simple racism to disagreements over their bombastic rhetoric and left wing policy. But a higher profile for them is likely bad for Dems in purple areas.
2) If shifts the campaign from pocketbook issues to battles over race and identity. Democrats would rather present themselves as champions of the working and middle class against big business (80 percent vs the 1 percent). While Republican probably do better if politics is framed as whites(70 percent of the electorate) vs minorities.
I want to believe the 1st one, but I'm not so sure. Clearly there won't be mass defections of Trump supporters morally outraged by his rhetoric. A lot depends on how the Democratic presidential candidates respond. Do they criticize Trump's rhetoric while primarily focusing on the economy/class or do they punch back and talk about the US being a white supremacists country that is running concentration camps and double down on the woke rhetoric?
Joe Biden has been strangely silent. So have the rest of the leading contenders.
I think they are loath to support Omar, AOC, and the other radicals in the Democrat party and that is what will happen if they do go after Trump. It's fascinating to watch Trump set that trap for them. Eventually they will be forced to do something about it.
Probably didn't do anything, he can shoot someone on Fifth Ave. and wouldn't loose any voters.
He didn't loose any of his 1%er's or any of his devoted 35% rural base.
so you really think his only base is rural America? Think again, and please do your homework: just because a state is rural doesn't mean there are not major cities with major corporations in those cities with lot of Trump supporters.
As for his silly tweeting, both sides need to be sent to bed without any dinner or put in time out and I don't mean time out for an hour, I mean for a long time. They make my 7 year old great granddaughter sound like an adult.
The Jihad Squad are good people who sacrificed so much for America and shouldn’t be criticized for being people of color. America was never great.
try living in another country or explain the line of people trying to get to America and then tell us America isn't great. I guess the saying still goes: America love it or leave it. This doesn't mean our country has no faults. but sorry it was great and is still great in many ways.
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