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Trump: ‘Look at My African-American Over Here’

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DrForester

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echoshifting said:
They're gonna let it happen. They've almost all fallen in line. I think there are maybe half a dozen major exceptions
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I still expect some about faces. Once they think the Senate, or even the House is in danger of flipping, they'll throw Trump under the Bus.
 
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echoshifting said:
They're gonna let it happen. They've almost all fallen in line. I think there are maybe half a dozen major exceptions
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I remember Mitch McConnell saying they will "drop him like a hot rock" if he's on track to lose the GE by a landslide. The senate majority is really important to them. The recent Ipsos/Reuters poll shows Clinton with a 10 point lead. If this continues, then yeah, I pretty much expect them to distance themselves from Trump.
 
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Not contesting the convention will go down as the greatest tactical error since the design of the exhaust vents on the Death Star.
 
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thepotatoman

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ultratruman said:
Would anything change if Trump straight up used the N-word onstage?
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That one's easy for them to defend. White conservatives using the n-word behind closed doors happens very often, and they've already come up with all the ways to defend themselves like "black people can say it", or "it doesn't mean I think every black person is an N-word".

There were even a few conservative talk show hosts that tried to defend Cliven Bundy's comments about black people being better off under slavery as nothing more than a lack of media training, or as a character flaw that they disagree with but doesn't change the way they look at him.

And that was some nobody they could easily drop. Have Trump go all the way to saying something like that and I bet at least Hannity and Rush would try to explain it away as not a big deal, though that probably would pass the line where people like Paul Ryan rescind their support.
 
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idolminds

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DrForester said:
Need a poll for this thread.

What's worse?

"My African American"
or
"And he's sitting there behaving"
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3rd option: "Says he tells his supporters are to treat protesters kindly, then IMMEDIATELY tells a story where the hero is a Trump supporter that punches an unsuspecting protester."

EDIT: Er, I know you were going for a specific angle but I just couldn't believe that 2 minute video could be 6 flavors of wrong. Even if he hadn't uttered the "my African American" or the "behaving" lines, it would STILL be a train wreck of a clip.
 
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DedValve

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Just another link to add when Trump supporters try and get coy saying Trump isn't racist because he never declared himself as such. Bookmark folder is getting a bit fat now.
 
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DrForester

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It's OK everyone. Trump's African American was cool with it.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/201...y-african-american-supporter-i-wasn-t-n585821

A Republican singled out at a rally by Donald Trump as "my African American" said the episode was "odd," but insisted he was not offended.

Gregory Cheadle said he was the man in the crowd pointed out by Trump, who as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee boasted of his support among African-American voters.

Trump's remarks were made Friday at a rally in Northern California where he told an anecdote about another black male supporter who got into a fight at one of his previous events.

"I didn't take offense at all because of what he said afterward," Cheadle later told NBC News. "I liked what he said about his black supporter fighting off a man dressed as a klansman at his rally."

"Yes, it was odd, but since he went on to tell the story, it's OK," Cheadle added. "I know some are saying it was demeaning, objectifying or possessory. But that's not the conclusion I came to."

Cheadle described himself as a Republican, but said he would not necessarily vote for Trump even after attending his rallies.

"When you come from the inner city, seeing someone like Trump is so far removed from my thinking," he said. "I wanted to see a presidential candidate. I'm open to attend his rallies, but I'm not necessarily going to vote for him."

"I'm an 1856 Republican like the white Republicans back then who were trying to free the black slaves — fighting for the people, not corporations," he added. "Hillary Clinton is all about power and money."

In his remarks about another black supporter, Trump recounted how "we had an African-American guy, who is a fan of mine, great fan, great guy."

That man "slugged" a protester dressed in a Ku Klux Klan outfit, Trump said.

"So when the African-American cold-cocked this guy, this guy never knew what happened ... We have tremendous African-American support," the real estate mogul assured.

However, the protester described by Trump says he never wore a hood of any kind. Video of the event, in Tuscon, Arizona, shows him being escorted out along with another protester, a woman who was wearing a KKK hat. She took it off as she was walked up the stairs toward the exit.

A man who identified himself as the protester said on Twitter that he had never met the woman and attended the rally alone.

"I am the protester attacked at the Tucson rally," Bryan Sanders tweeted late Friday. "I did not wear a hood of any kind! Trump has told this lie repeatedly."
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