Former President Barack Obama deconstructed some of Donald Trump’s playbook attacks while campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris in Nevada on Saturday.
Speaking at a rally in Las Vegas, Obama accused the Republican presidential nominee and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), of leaning on scaremongering about immigration as an answer to any issue.
“If you challenge them, they’ll fall back on one answer. It does not matter what it is — housing, health care, education, paying for the bills — one answer: blame the immigrants,” he said.
“He wants you to believe that if you elect him, he will just round up whoever he wants and ship them out and all your problems will be solved,” he added.
He acknowledged that there’s a “real issue” at the border and elements of the system are “broken,” but criticized Trump’s approach.
“When I hear Donald Trump talk … he’s very quick to say to Kamala, ‘Well, you were vice president for four years,’” he added. “Dude, you were president for four years!”
“He couldn’t solve the problem because deep state.”
There is no zinger, no matter how truthful, that will penetrate the average republican voter’s weaponized schizophrenia.
If he can’t do anything about this deep state as president, maybe there’s no reason to vote for him.
If the deep state is as deep as he says then they’re the ones who made him president the first time.
It’s Mitch McConnells all the way down.
They’ve weaponized xenophobia too!
Too? I think that’s their entire arsenal. No positive policies. Just fear mongering based on immigration.
No they also use fascist fear mongering about democracy as well (literally trying to claim aren’t a democracy and Trump openly saying he’d end elections)
And stupidity
So the deep state is still there and now you’re on the list.