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Who will win tonight's debate?
Donald Trump
Ted Cruz
Marco Rubio
John Kasich
Baby Hitler
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Neeksy
Mar 29, 2007

Hej min vän, hur står det till?
I missed this debate, is there any good articles of highlights/lows?

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Neeksy
Mar 29, 2007

Hej min vän, hur står det till?

STAC Goat posted:

Hannity is a boot licking piece of poo poo but he's not wrong on the Rubio/Romney Duke/KKK thing. Stop with the "disavow" poo poo. There's a deeper question that Trump should be asked about all the hate groups and leaders that are coming out for him and how he feels about them. He should be asked about the white nationalist tweets and Farakhan and the Neo Nazi shoving around a protester at his rallies. Try and get Trump to make a clear "they're disgusting" statement.

But stop trying to squeeze blood from the David Duke gaffe. Either dig deeper or let that poo poo go. But no one in the Republican Party has ever been capable of digging deeper with Trump. No one even digs below the surface on the Trump U thing. I've seen liberal media bring up more dirt on that in one segment a dozen times than I've heard from the #NeverTrump people all week.

They can't attack him on that, those groups are a major part of their coalition.

Neeksy
Mar 29, 2007

Hej min vän, hur står det till?

STAC Goat posted:

Oh, I know. But again, it goes back to "if you're going to do it, do it right." If they aren't willing to follow through on this line of attack then they need to let it go. Repeating the same Duke gaffe over and over just feeds Trump and Hannity's "I said I disavowed it a dozen times, you're just being unfair" narrative.

It's just incompetent gameplay. You can't do this poo poo half assed. You're going to pull on the strings of Trump's cons? Going to dig into the racist element of his base? Then you better be ready to come correct or don't bother at all.

While you're tactically correct in that if you're going to hit him on it, hit him hard and more fundamentally to the core of his white nationalism problem. However, the GOP lacks any standing to effectively do so; they either risk alienating a group of voters that they have been dogwhistling for decades or come across as hypocrites since their own views and policies are also targeted against the same groups of minorities, but with Atwateresque obfuscation.

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