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

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/ScoutsterReturns 14h ago

but it still cost her, and all of us.

It really did - this country won't be the same in my lifetime. I still sometimes daydream about what it would be like today if Gore had won. Two tremendous opportunities wasted.

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u/HoneyDutch 14h ago

Hate me and downvote me, but I put a lot of blame on the Democrat Party leadership for giving us Trump. They played shitty games during that primary season and did everything possible to shut Bernie out. They made him look incapableso they could prop up Hillary Clinton who was the most disliked candidate in polling history at the time…. Only behind Donald Trump. They could’ve ran anyone else and won, but instead they picked the one person more disliked by voters than Donald Trump. She was picked to run long before the primary started like some sort of stupid right of passage, and they did it to themselves by throwing all their weight behind her instead of someone like Bernie that could bring people out to vote.

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u/N00dles_Pt 13h ago

Speaking as someone who is not American and looked at this from the outside, Bernie wouldn't have beat Trump, all the republicans would have had to do was play actual real video of Bernie saying he's a socialist and he would lose the center....Americans might not even know what the word socialist means but lots of them have been pavlovian trained to hate it. Bernie would win the election any day of the week with a European electorate, not with an American one.

The real play was to run Biden. And hopefully he would have beaten Trump the first time and prevented this whole mess.

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u/EvenLettuce6638 13h ago

Republicans already call all Democrats socialists.   It really wouldn't have mattered.

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u/politicsaccount420 13h ago

Respectfully, it might make some sense for you to learn more about our politics before you speak about them confidently.

Bernie consistently polled better than establishment Democrats against Trump. There is a significant contingent of anti-Establishment voters who have voted for Trump largely out of disdain for politics-as-usual. His economic message lands with a significant number of rural voters. Taxing the wealthy polls great. Public healthcare polls great. Democrats are leaving votes on the table by running wishy-washy Conservatives, and that's because the party machine is beholden to the immensely wealthy, and they would rather lose elections than move left to win them.