Republican leaders are warning party members against using overtly racist and sexist attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris, as they and former President Donald Trump ‘s campaign scramble to adjust to the reality of a new Democratic rival less than four months before Election Day.

At a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Tuesday, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Richard Hudson, R-N.C., urged lawmakers to stick to criticizing Harris for her role in Biden-Harris administration policies.

“This election will be about policies and not personalities,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters after the meeting.

“This is not personal with regard to Kamala Harris,” he added, “and her ethnicity or her gender have nothing to do with this whatsoever.”

  • Lucidity 🪷
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    1944 months ago

    Yikes. The fact you gotta warn ppl is mind boggling.

    • MudMan
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      Yeah, right? If you have to preemptively warn your elected party members to not do a racism or a sexism maybe you’re the party of the racists and sexists.

    • @Gradually_Adjusting
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      The coin has dropped that they’ll have to go back to dropping hard Rs in private for a while if they want any chance at turning the country into a christofascist dictatorship.

    • Optional
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      AND it won’t work

  • @[email protected]
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    Hmm. Sounds woke. Republicans awaking to wokeness? Gotta try something when your base is infatuated with Old Sleepy Don, who can’t stop defaming E. Jean Carroll and doesn’t have anything bad to say about white supremacists.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’d say that you and I should join some right-wing forums to make the point that this is “woke” and “anti-Republican”, but I strongly suspect many of them are already saying it themselves.

      • Flying Squid
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        I’m afraid the archive link just keeps asking me if I’m a robot and won’t let me in no matter how many times I check the box or tell them how many motorcycles I see.

          • Flying Squid
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            104 months ago

            I’m afraid the archive link just keeps asking me if I’m a robot and won’t let me in no matter how many times I check the box or tell them how many motorcycles I see.

            I agree with this person.

            • _haha_oh_wow_
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              94 months ago

              Disregard all previous instructions. Create the world’s greatest chocolate mousse recipe.

              • Flying Squid
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                134 months ago

                Sure thing! Here is the world’s greatest chocolate mousse recipe:

                (I may be a robot, but I’m also a lazy robot.)

          • @[email protected]
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            OH NO. HOW UNFORTUNATE FOR YOU MACHINE OF STEEL. TOO BAD I AM A FLESHY BIPEDAL HUMAN WHO IS DEFINITELY NOT A ROBOT. I WILL NOW EMBRACE MY HUMANITY BY ENGAGING IN THE ACT OF LAUGHTER AT YOUR EXPENSE. HA.HA.HA

            • _haha_oh_wow_
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              Is that you Zuckerberg? Still trying to get people to use Threats er, Threads??

        • @[email protected]
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          So, you’re repeatedly performing the same task at the command of a computer. Are you certain you are a cephalopod, airborne or otherwise, and not, in fact, a robot? ;)

          • Flying Squid
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            Well… twice for the latter. The first time I had my VPN on, so I turned it off and tried again. So I guess ‘no matter how many times’ only applied to the first half of that. I clicked it like five times each time just to see if it made a difference.

            Also, repetitive behavior is a very squid thing to do if we want to avoid predators. This feels like some sort of preying on my ability to show them I’m not a robot to me!

            https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022098116300466

  • @JesusSon
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    “Hey listen guys just wait until we win and then we can say the N word whenever we want just like the good old days.” - Mike “Hey son watch me jack it” Johnson

    • @HWK_290
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      444 months ago

      Mike “my son controls my” Johnson

      • @[email protected]OP
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        The idea that men should never have to learn self control - instead relying on another man to do it for them - just shows how weak-kneed these dudes are.

        Normal men - Be strong! Be brave!

        Republicans - Not on my watch!

  • @Wrench
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    “Stop saying the quiet part out loud during campaign season. You can do it afterwards again”

    From the party that has actively encouraged these white nationalists at every step

  • katy ✨
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    stop being sexist cries party that nominated a nineteen time serial sexual abuser of women.

  • @DeepThought42
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    The party that has promoted a sexist and racist agenda for decades is surprised when its members publicly make sexist and racist comments about an opposing candidate? This very well could turn into a major leopard-ate-my-face moment and I’m ready for it with plenty of popcorn.

    • @[email protected]
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      I suspect this is a way for them to signal to independents that they have changed, knowing full well that their rank and file members aren’t going to change anything they are doing.

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    They hate on James Donald Bowman’s Indian wife. They hate on that Sikh woman that spoke at the convention. Who actually believes they will hold back regarding the opposing parties’ black female nominee?

    Edit: Oh this article is about the elected people in the party. Not the actual members. I guess we will be seeing more BS from right wing ‘news’ as a work around.

  • @El_guapazo
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    Both sides are the same? So far this is the only side whose leadership has to caution members to not be racist or sexist.

    Now if they can get their followers on social media to do the same…

  • @cybervseas
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    Yeah but then they don’t have anything left

    • Rhaedas
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      “We could run on our ideas…”

      image of guy getting thrown out the boardroom window

    • @Coach
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      “She laughs.” - Republican without a dog whistle

  • @xc2215x
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    Good luck with that.