With November fast approaching, U.S. voters have less than three months to decide on the next president, and political rhetoric has ramped up. Some of the rhetoric coming from the MAGA camp against Kamala Harris has been explicitly racist or sexist. While some senior Republicans warned against it and distanced themselves, others like former President Donald Trump have embraced it, revealing a divide within the GOP.
Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman warns that most Americans are unprepared for how ugly the race is about to become and that Trump — deeply offended by the idea that a woman of color might defeat him — will only become more vicious in his racist and sexist attacks as November draws closer.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
Well, I think one of the parts that I don’t know if those who follow politics are ready for in this presidential race is that it is going to get very, very, very ugly. It has become clear that while many Republicans insisted before Joe Biden dropped out that Joe Biden just doesn’t have what it takes to run for president and shouldn’t be running for president, once he did step aside, they were not ready to face Kamala Harris. The attacks reflexively became about how she became Black after being Indian, how she’s a DEI hire, only there due to some kind of race-based affirmative action. She laughs in a way that some people don’t like. She doesn’t have biological children, having only step children. These are not strong attacks.
And on the other hand, Donald Trump has been melting down, daily posts, dozens of posts to Truth Social, seemingly increasingly depressed and sort of sedated at his campaign events. Very often it’s so boring, people are leaving. You can see them leaving at the hour mark of Trump’s speech, which, by the way, is the same speech on repeat time and time again.
And I recently spoke with former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, and he said he believes the thing Americans are really not ready for is we have an expectation, vaguely, generally, that political campaigns can be ugly, and that this one probably will get ugly. Steve told me in a recent interview that he expects the absolute ugliest, often racially motivated attacks to be launched against Kamala Harris in the remaining time between now and the election. And this is informed by a number of different realities, one of which is Trump is in a complete and total panic. Number two is Trump constitutionally doesn’t think he should have to lose to a woman, especially a woman who is not white.
