Usually Trump’s crowds bail on him when he gets close to the hour mark in his incoherant rambles. This time the crowd couldn’t even stick with Trump for a half an hour.
A more savvy candidate would notice his crowd getting bored and leaving and tighten up their speech to get it over with faster, or start giving shorter remarks to keep the crowd from heading to the parking lot, but Donald Trump is not smart. These speeches aren’t for the crowd. Trump isn’t giving anything to the audience. He is taking from the crowd to fill his endless need for love and affection.
Trump’s events have been low energy throughout the entire campaign.
The Harris campaign says that the attacks on Puerto Ricans at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally have broken through with voters in a big way.
The Harris campaign says that the attacks on Puerto Ricans at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally have broken through with voters in a big way.
Selina Wang of ABC News reported:
The Harris campaign sees that whole rally as a fortuitous gift for the campaign. You heard the Vice President today saying that this is just more of the same from Donald Trump, more of this divisive and chaotic language where Donald Trump is seeking to have Americans point fingers at each other instead of trying to come up with practical solutions.
And what’s really notable is that the exact moment that this rally was underway, where people were comparing Puerto Rico to a floating island of garbage, Vice President Harris said Was actually at a Puerto Rican restaurant engaging with the local community and that very morning she had just laid out her economic plan for Puerto Rico, which includes rebuilding some of the energy grid as well as trying to provide more access to affordable housing.
And I just spoke to a campaign source who is telling me that they are seeing We’re seeing this backlash breakthrough in a way that they have not seen yet. This cycle with non traditional media outlets and with celebrities who aren’t politically engaged hopping into this conversation. Bad Bunny, who is one of the most influential figures in the Latino community, especially with Latino men and young Latino men, he had reposted a video of Vice President Harris talking about her plan for Puerto Rico.
You had other celebrities getting into this conversation as well. I’m told that the campaign is going to continue seizing on this that they’re working on an advertisement around this right now, and they’re well aware, Kira, that in battleground Pennsylvania, there’s some half a million Puerto Ricans.
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Campaign source tells me they're seeing Puerto Rico comparison to "floating island of garbage" breaking through in a way they haven't seen yet this political cycle Campaign had already been in convos with Bad Bunny on Puerto Rico policies Pennsylvania has ~500K Puerto Ricans @ABCpic.twitter.com/K4lnJo8JAw
Trump held a big MAGA gathering in the epicenter of American media, and instead of generating attention on his closing message, it exposed the racism that is fueling his campaign.
People aren’t talking about Trump’s rally as a triumph, but how it might end up costing him the key state of Pennsylvania, and maybe the election.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) suspected that Trump's secret plan with Mike Johnson is a backup plan to overturn the election.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) suspected that Trump’s secret plan with Mike Johnson is a backup plan to overturn the election.
Goldman said on CNN:
Donald Trump hinted yesterday in his speech that he has some secret with Speaker Mike Johnson. Now, you wonder, why did Donald Trump come to New York nine days before the election? This is going – this state is going to go to Kamala Harris. And the answer is that the House really runs through New York. There are seven races that could go either way in the House. And that will likely determine the majority.
And make no mistake, the House, we get sworn in on January 3rd. On January 6th, the certification of the Electoral College will happen again. And we – as we know from 2021, whoever is in control of the House, of Congress, will be able to have a lot of say on what happens on January 6th. And I suspect, we don’t know, but I suspect Donald Trump’s little secret plan with Mike Johnson is a backup plan for when he loses and he tries to go to the House of Representatives to throw out the Electoral College, the certification from the states, and have the House of Representatives under the leadership and the control and the gavel for Mike Johnson and try to overturn this election.
It was the exact reverse on January 6, 2021. You had Mike Pence, the vice president, who was presiding over the joint session, but you had Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, who were presiding over Congress. If it’s the reverse, the Republicans have a lot more opportunity and a lot more possibilities for overturning this election.
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Trump’s “closing argument” at MSG was a vile, vitriolic display of MAGA extremism.
Every speaker was hand-picked and vetted by him.
But beyond the racism, Hitler references, and authoritarian ideals, he revealed his “secret” plan with Speaker Johnson to overturn the election. pic.twitter.com/nALF7huQH9
Speaker Johnson was asked to comment on Trump’s claim that the two men have a secret which Trump referenced after claiming that Republicans will do better in the House than people think. Trump is never subtle. It is a safe guess that Trump and Johnson have worked out a scheme to block certification and steal the election for Trump.
The problem as Goldman explained is if Democrats win the House, they will be running the certification process on 1/6.
If Democrats win the House any secret plan that Trump has with Johnson will be irrelevant.
From the April 7 edition of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes:
TODD ALLBAUGH: I've been a Republican for a long time. It was at that moment, Chris, in that room in the senate Republican caucus when I heard people, a Party I had fought for for over 30 years of my life, actually giddy and happy and talking about how we can take people's Constitutional rights away, or at least impede them, in order to hang onto power.
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Now, you have a group of people in the state legislature, particularly in the senate Republican caucus, who want to impede peoples' voting rights. That's the point where I said "I can't do it anymore." I can't be a Republican, I can't keep going to caucuses because this Party no longer represents me and what I believe in.
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Republicans used to fight for voting rights, and here they were taking them away. So, yes, the point is, this was a poignant point in my life. I remember it clearly and certainly the point in that room that day was how do we do this quickly because there was a lot of recalls going on in Wisconsin at that time. How do we do it quickly so that we can make sure we hang onto power in the future.
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