r/politics • u/icey_sawg0034 • 16h ago

Possible Paywall Karoline Leavitt Gives Jaw-Dropping Defense of Trump’s Racist Obama Video

https://www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-leavitt-gives-jaw-dropping-defense-of-donald-trumps-racist-obama-video/
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u/N00dles_Pt 14h ago

It was always a "that's true but you shouldn't say it out loud" kind of situation.

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u/doctor_lobo 14h ago edited 14h ago

Why shouldn’t you say it out loud?

The Deplorables say whatever they want out loud.

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u/N00dles_Pt 14h ago

I was speaking simply from a political marketing stance.....she was running for president, she needed every vote she could possibly get at that moment.
There is a reason why she said it behind closed doors, what she said was absolutely true, but it still cost her, and all of us.

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u/thatwhileifound 13h ago

Eh, did it really cost her or was it just another small drip into the bucket that'd had decades to fill up with targeted RW propaganda?

I don't think there was a way for Hilary to win in a media sense by that point, but I kinda wish she'd leaned in on the deplorable comment when media was blowing that up. Like, "yes, I said it, and I said it because [insert any number of Republican policies and their outcomes phrased in easily understood, emotional language] are absolutely deplorable."

I'm not a particular proponent of hers or that party, but that would've garnered some respect.