People forget that Trump wasn't a Republican until like 2012. The only reason he ran Republican was that someone convinced him that was the only way he'd ever win. Remember, winning at all costs is literally the only thing Donald Trump cares about.
Honestly, he's never been a Democrat or a Republican. Even now, if you go by what the Republican party was before he took it over. He's always been a Trumpist, nothing more and nothing less. He cares solely, without exception, for one thing: Donald Trump.
i'm skeptical. but i think i'll enjoy spending the next 3 months thinking about republicans flying into a blind frothing rage over losing to a black woman
Ranked most politically left compared to Senate Democrats
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Yeah, but all Senators in the Republican and Democratic party are right wing. Bernie Sanders is an independent so not included in the "Senate Democrats" label. He is a centrist and thus left of her slightly, but there are no leftists in the Senate. Their scale is just from most to least right leaning and not from left to right for a reason.
In addition to what @riotsoma said below, people also don't like her due to her actions as a prosecutor before she was in the Senate. They equate her with police basically.
I disagree wholeheartedly with how she handled drugs in CA, etc., but let's be clear: prosecutors are not cops. How would a modern society function without them? Truly, this is an open question to all those "Kamala is a cop I'll never vote for her" people.
I think the better response, even if a democrat voter DOES do something like this in the future is "Yeah, ok, but it's your policies that allowed him to get a gun so easily without any mental wellbeing checks, or any gun control. Our policies would have stopped him. Your policies gave him free reign."
No that wasn’t Trump! He just let them license his name for the donation. He didn’t make that donation! He can’t be held responsible for the things people do in his name! That’s crazy talk!
Well, guess that means he just can't take credit for other things than either. Trump never picked up a hammer, never worked on that wall. Guess Trump never built that wall. Someone else just did it in his name....So I assume his base will be angry over the news that Trump failed to build them that damned wall. But that's his problem.
"First of all, before we get into it, I'd like to thank Mr. Trump for his donation to my 2011 campaign for attorney general of California. As a New York resident, you couldn't have voted for me in that election. But, this time around I hope I can count on your vote for President. Unless that felony conviction prevents you from voting..."
He was using money to try to buy influence just like Epstein used to do because he has long been a creature of the machine. Politically important people get away with things.
IMO what's interesting about this timing is that in 2011 Trump wasn't yet running for office, but he was at the head of the racist "birther" movement. And, this was months after Obama had made fun of Trump at the White House correspondents dinner.
So, while this isn't GOP presidential-candidate Trump supporting a democrat, it's definitely after Trump started getting involved in politics as an opponent of the democratic president.
Says more about Harris than Trump tbh. She hates Black people as much as he does and actively worked to harm them by arresting BLM protesters and fighting to keep them in jail when they should have been released.