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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 2919903)

Joe is on point.

Yes he is and Joe don’t beat around the bush either, he comes out swinging’ man.

Is it true ‘ kamala’ in Finn means horrible? Horrible Harris is quite fitting :har:

https://youtu.be/De2aexEdgzs

Trump and the NABJ interview. Sheesh. Trump could have done better. So could the journalists. But hey, it was no less similar than Trump going on The View. :doh:

Well, we still got Megan the Stallion and twerking. All is well in the country. Carry on.

They did what all interviewers should do and didn’t let him sidestep the questions.

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Originally Posted by Buddahaid (Post 2920009)

They did what all interviewers should do and didn’t let him sidestep the questions.

He did sidestep. I did not see much of any direct answers IMO. The audience appeared to be laughing with him and not at him. I do not think it went as either party had thought.

And come on man(Biden), Harris identifies as black does not make her black. If I identify as a mountain panda it does not make me a panda.

JD Vance – who has biracial children – tries to dismiss Trump’s attack on Harris’ heritage as ‘hysterical’

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JD Vance, who has three biracial children with his wife of Indian heritage, has tried to brush off Donald Trump’s stunning attack on Kamala Harris’ racial heritage by calling the backlash “hysterical.”

The Republican vice presidential nominee – who is also facing backlash over his misogynistic comments branding Harris and other women “childless cat ladies” – was asked about the former president’s comments on his campaign plane on the way to a rally in Arizona on Wednesday.

“I frankly just think it’s hysterical how much the media is overreacting to it,” he said, before leaping to defend Trump.

“How nice it is to have an American leader who's not afraid to go into hostile places and actually answer some tough questions,” he said.
“I think he pointed out the fundamental chameleon-like nature of Kamala Harris,” Vance continued.

“She’s flip flopped on every issue. She’s fake. She’s phony. And I think our whole campaign is going to have a very fun time pointing that out. And it sounds like the president kicked us off in stride.”

The former president sparked outrage on Wednesday when he wildly questioned Harris’ heritage and claimed she “happened to turn Black” during an interview on stage at the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago.

“She was always of Indian heritage. And she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black,” the 78-year-old claimed to gasps from the crowd.

“So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”

He added: “I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t, because she was Indian all the way and all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a Black person.”

Harris is the first African-American and Asian-American vice president. Her father is Jamaican economist and Stanford University professor Donald J. Harris, and her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a biomedical scientist from India.

Vance’s defense of his running mate comes despite his own wife being of Indian heritage, meaning that his children are, like Harris, biracial.

Vance married Usha Chilukuri in an interfaith Christian and Hindu marriage ceremony in 2014 after the couple met while attending Yale Law School.

Republican Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton – a major MAGA loyalist – also jumped to defend Trump, telling CNN’s Kaitlin Collins that “of course” Trump’s comments are defensible.

But, when pushed to answer if questioning a fellow politician’s race is right and if it will even win any votes for the Republican Party, the senator avoided the question and instead labeled Harris as a “dangerous San Fransisco liberal”.

Vance and Collins are in something of a minority in defending Trump for his racially-charged comments.

Fellow Republican party member and former governor of Maryland Larry Hogan condemned Trump in a post on X.

“It's unacceptable and abhorrent to attack Vice President Harris or anyone's racial identity. The American People deserve better,” he wrote.

Harris responded to Trump later on Wednesday when she appeared at a Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority gathering in Houston, Texas.

The Democratic presidential candidate dismissed Trump’s comments as “the same old show of divisiveness and disrespect” and said: “America deserves better.”

Her potential vice presidential pick Arizona Senator Mark Kelly also blasted Trump by denouncing him as a “scared old man”.

“It was very obvious to me watching him, and just what I've seen over the last week while she's been across the country just his kicking butt, that he's afraid,” the senator added.

“He's afraid to debate her. He's certainly afraid to lose an election to her in November, and he's afraid about his own future.”

Trump’s stunning comments are far from the first shocking remarks to come from his campaign.

Over the last week, Vance and Trump have been in damage control after a 2021 clip of the vice presidential candidate resurfaced showing him calling Harris and other Democrats “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives”.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...35196d3c&ei=19

Obama's father was black, his mother was white, and he was called black by everyone. Harris's father was black, her mother was Asian, and she's not called black by MAGA?

Tell me, just how much black makes someone black? Why wasn't Obama called white?

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2920030)

JD Vance – who has biracial children – tries to dismiss Trump’s attack on Harris’ heritage as ‘hysterical’

Biracial is one thing. Harris stating she is black is identity politics. Her heritage shows otherwise. However, in some peoples thinking if one identifies as a muskrat they are a muskrat. Yet all indications show otherwise. This is why we are no finding cat litterboxes in schools for the kids who identify as a cat. :doh: Yes, in Calvert county MD a few public schools have litterboxes. Family in this county school system pulled their child from the school as a result.

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Originally Posted by Buddahaid (Post 2920034)

Why do they not call her white? Why not call her the potential first biracial president? Why black for Obama and Harris? See a pattern here? I see manipulation.

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 2920036)

Why do they not call her white? Why not call her the potential first biracial president? Why black for Obama and Harris? See a pattern here? I see manipulation.

As she goes changing her position on every issue depending on how the polling goes, and the mainstream starts to help by deleting references to her old radical positions what we should be calling Kamala Harris is the biggest flip flop ever.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7w...2E-1200-80.jpg

So, you do. On another note, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals with two Trump appointed judges, have killed Florida's anti woke law for good.

https://apnews.com/article/stop-woke...941f89d0c193af

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 2920004)

I think if we're honest as conservatives, Trump is horrible and cringing at times when debating or doing interviews with opposition. They are prepared to bait him and he always takes the bait and comes across as a 5 year old. Good politicians ignore the bait, switch to their policies and attack the policies of their opponent. Trump does amazing in forums where he's in charge or friendly journalist, etc. When he was president he was brilliant speaking to NATO and the UN, even prophetic. I'm sure people around him try to prep him, but too much ego. I can imagine his family members face palming when they watch him often and screaming STFU at the TV. Trump just can't grasp going all in on the right wing base isn't gonna when him the election. I don't see him winning, not even against Harris. If he was smart, this would be a blow out, but he's not. I personally hope if he blows this he goes to jail, not for petty crimes, but for being an idiot.

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Originally Posted by em2nought (Post 2920039)

Her tune has changed quite a bit from 2020.

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Originally Posted by Armistead (Post 2920042)

Trump is awful debating and interviews. The worst I have seen. If he truly stuck to the facts he would fair much better. He knew he was walking hostile room yesterday. The went right after him.

Vegas has odds for Trump winning. Always bet with Vegas.

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Originally Posted by Armistead (Post 2920042)

I know I was facepalming. All he needed to say is I don't care what color anyone is, I want to improve the lives of every single American, and I want to improve the lives of those in more dire circumstances even more than the lives of those who are better off. As to DEI I'd rather see the best person in the job. If nine African American men were applying for a job who were all more qualified than an African American woman who was applying would you really want me to give the job to the woman? I think he should claim to have lost his voice and take Vivek Ramaswamy along with him to speak for him from now until November. Make Vivek his Press Secretary.