Facing an uproar over use of a private fund to cover expenses, vice presidential candidate Sen. Richard Nixon invoked the family dog, Checkers, to salvage his political career in 1952.
  • FuglyDuckEnglish
    10•1 month ago

    For the record… Checkers was one of the ‘gifts’; the comment that changed thigns was that he vowed to keep one gift- Checkers the family doggo.

    Americans love their dogs. (and their cats.) (One more reason to hate trump… what kind of asshole do you have to be, to be hated by dogs everywhere.)

    • @ChronosTriggerWarning
      4•1 month ago

      what kind of asshole do you have to be, to be hated by dogs everywhere

      Dogs’ sense of smell is anywhere between 10,000-100,00x stronger than that of a human. Now, imagine having that sense of smell, and being in the same hemisphere as trump… pretty self explanatory why the doggos despise him, no?

  • @Ensign_CrabEnglish
    7•1 month ago

    One shitty debate can also change the trajectory of a campaign - how Nixon did against Kennedy.