Exactly my thoughts. True though it may be, denigrate the leader, not his followers. Kamala didn’t fall for that obvious trap in her Fox interview, and now Biden’s made up for that. You never call voters stupid. Especially when they very much are.
Yeah, surely a party that calls their opponents criminals, pedophiles, paid actors, and cheaters repeatedly in every rally would be making a dire mistake that would remove them from any reasonable chance of contention.
Maybe civility politics is just a stupid illusion.
Y’all are forgetting that this whole thing is graded on a sliding scale. If Harris did 1 of the crazy things Trump does every damn day, this wouldn’t even be a close race. So yeah, Trump gets a pass for calling American citizens “trash,” but Harris would be torched for anything remotely similar.
I mean it could go either way really, lots of reports of people peeling off support already because of how extreme MAGA is, if they get riled up even more and really start shooting at the sky it could definitely accelerate that peeling.
My guess is Biden meant Trump donors given Biden has always been friendly to Republican voters from the general public, there was an example of that recently.
Though wtf, why is Biden saying this such an issue and Trump literally said he’s going to send military against “enemies of the state”. Such bullshit double standards
With Biden being connected to the democratic party and directly connected to Harris, any critical comments may have a chance of being flipped back towards them. The MAGA campaign is just that maliciously vindictive.
A comment like that gave Trump fodder to try to spin it like he's the good guy, despite all of this being initiated by a comic at his rally.
Trump and his campaign have been trying to shift the blame off of them. First, with saying that the joke (just one joke?) didn't reflect the view of the campaign. Then, Trump mentioned in an interview that the comic probably shouldn't have been there, yet he was able to finish his set, uninterrupted. Now Trump took Biden's (misspoken) comment and compared it with Clinton's previous, calling the supporters "deplorable".