Trump’s Bizarre Rant About Kamala’s Blackness Exposes MAGA’s Weakness

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Donald Trump’s public statements about Kamala Harris are getting weirder. After Harris had a huge showing at a Georgia rally, he erupted, claiming that “Crazy Kamala Harris” had relied on a concert to draw the crowd. Then, speaking to black journalists, Trump melted down spectacularly while suggesting that Harris had long disavowed her black identity. The connecting thread here: the Trump-MAGA worldview doesn’t allow for any real grasp of how Harris is viewed by the American mainstream. We talked to Professor Nicholas Grossman, author of a new piece for The Bulwark about the MAGA right, who explains how these eruptions show that MAGA assumes it has a broad based appeal that it just doesn’t really have. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.3	Donald Trump's public statements about Kamala Harris have taken a really weird turn.
1:29.9	First, after Harris had a huge showing at a rally in Georgia, he erupted on truth social, claiming that quote-unquote, crazy Kamala Harris
1:37.3	needed a concert to draw the crowd and that he doesn't need concerts to draw his audiences.
1:43.9	Then, under questioning from black journalists,
1:47.0	Trump appeared to suggest that Harris had long disavowed her identity as a black person.
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