Welcome to Chicago!
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The first question came from ABC's Scott, who asked about Trump's past inflammatory rhetoric toward women of color.
"I want to start by addressing the elephant in the room, sir. A lot of people did not think it was appropriate for you to be here today," Scott said. "You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals, from Nikki Haley to former President Barack Obama, saying that they were not born in the United States, which is not true. You have told four congressmen, women of color, who were American citizens, to go back to where they came from. You have used words like 'animal' and 'rabbit' to describe Black district attorneys. You've attacked Black journalists, calling them a 'loser,' saying the questions that they ask are, 'stupid and racist.' You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar a Lago resort."
"So, my question, sir, now that you are asking Black supporters to vote for you, why should Black voters trust you after you have used language like that?" Scott asked.
"Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question. So, in such a horrible manner, a first question. You don't even say hello. Who are you? Are you with ABC? Because I think they're a fake news network. A terrible network," Trump began.
It went downhill from there. And Vance didn't get any glowing words of support.
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Weird.
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I think he and JD were fighting over who should attend that one.
And here's the link to today's interview:
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No wonder he was so worked up by the time he got on stage.
Moments before former President Trump took the stage at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention in Chicago on Wednesday, the organization's president was called back to address an issue.
Why it matters: Trump did not want to be fact-checked live and was refusing to go on stage, NABJ president Ken Lemon told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/02/trump-nabj-fact-checking-black-journalists
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@ShiroKuro said in Welcome to Chicago!:
Trump being Trump.
Yup. Just being himself.
Don't call it a comeback. Donald Trump has been this way for years.
Trump had the greatest summer of his political life. After years of jokes about Republican infighting, the Democratic Party was truly in disarray as panic spread about President Joe Biden's fitness to lead the ticket.
National polls showed that Trump was in the best position of any Republican presidential hopeful in more than two decades. Many Democrats were worried about a blowout. And to top it all off, Trump finally got the raucous convention coronation he craved. During the lovefest, his two former primary foes, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, urged the party to unite around Trump.
In the middle of it all, Trump survived an assassination attempt. Some thought the moment would change the 78-year-old. It did not.
Less than 100 days before the presidential election, Trump can't seem to accept the reality that this race has fundamentally changed.
After Biden made the virtually unprecedented decision to quit the race, Democrats have rallied around his vice president, Kamala Harris, to become his successor. Trump's team now appears nervous about defending North Carolina, a state Republicans have carried in all but one election since 1980.
And with a series of unforced errors, he is once again showing that for all his political talent, he has an uncanny ability to inspire breathtaking opposition. On Wednesday, Trump showed he is who he always has been. At a conference of Black journalists, the former president questioned if Kamala Harris was truly Black. He didn't focus on the litany of progressive positions Harris has backed away from or try to tie her to an unpopular president. Instead, he harkened back to ugly moments in US history and, frankly, his own.
"He did crap the bed today," Scott Jennings, a Republican political strategist, told CNN after Trump's appearance at the conference. "The only question is if he's going to roll around in it or get up and change the sheets."
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@ShiroKuro said in Welcome to Chicago!:
Trump being Trump.
Yup. Just being himself.
Don't call it a comeback. Donald Trump has been this way for years.
Trump had the greatest summer of his political life. After years of jokes about Republican infighting, the Democratic Party was truly in disarray as panic spread about President Joe Biden's fitness to lead the ticket.
National polls showed that Trump was in the best position of any Republican presidential hopeful in more than two decades. Many Democrats were worried about a blowout. And to top it all off, Trump finally got the raucous convention coronation he craved. During the lovefest, his two former primary foes, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, urged the party to unite around Trump.
In the middle of it all, Trump survived an assassination attempt. Some thought the moment would change the 78-year-old. It did not.
Less than 100 days before the presidential election, Trump can't seem to accept the reality that this race has fundamentally changed.
After Biden made the virtually unprecedented decision to quit the race, Democrats have rallied around his vice president, Kamala Harris, to become his successor. Trump's team now appears nervous about defending North Carolina, a state Republicans have carried in all but one election since 1980.
And with a series of unforced errors, he is once again showing that for all his political talent, he has an uncanny ability to inspire breathtaking opposition. On Wednesday, Trump showed he is who he always has been. At a conference of Black journalists, the former president questioned if Kamala Harris was truly Black. He didn't focus on the litany of progressive positions Harris has backed away from or try to tie her to an unpopular president. Instead, he harkened back to ugly moments in US history and, frankly, his own.
"He did crap the bed today," Scott Jennings, a Republican political strategist, told CNN after Trump's appearance at the conference. "The only question is if he's going to roll around in it or get up and change the sheets."
@wtg said in Welcome to Chicago!:
"He did crap the bed today," Scott Jennings, a Republican political strategist, told CNN after Trump's appearance at the conference. "The only question is if he's going to roll around in it or get up and change the sheets."
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