Kamala Harris is Growing the Base While Trump and Vance Are Shrinking Theirs

If you insult everyone it will start to cost you

MartinEdic
3 min readJul 31, 2024

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The news world today is full of stories about Trump’s latest gaffe, this one universally insulting Jews. On a conservative talk radio show, the host called Doug Emhoff, Harris’s husband, a ‘crappy jew’ and asked Trump if he agreed. Trump said yes.

I’m sorry, but just how stupid is this guy?

He just alienated yet another major voting bloc, Jewish Americans, who he has been courting using the questionable tactic of being Bibi Netanyahu’s soul mate. That gambit may have endeared him to certain right wing Jews, but Bibi is also an unpopular leader in his own country.

Now Trump has sealed the deal with many Jewish swing voters and it certainly isn’t The Art of the Deal.

That’s just the latest. In one week in the harsh spotlight of being Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance has managed to alienate whatever female swing voters may have been sitting on the fence with repeated insults of childless women, women with cats, and his extreme anti-abortion stance (no exceptions for rape or incest).

Oh yeah, suggesting that women crossing state lines for abortions should be pursued and arrested and advocating that those actually…

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MartinEdic

Mastodon: @martinedic@md.dm, Writer, nine non-fiction books, two novels, Buddhist, train lover. Amateur cook, lover of life most of the time!