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Dulcinea

(7,294 posts)
Sat Sep 21, 2024, 06:08 AM Sep 21

Harris campaign, Jewish groups fiercely criticize Trump preemptively blaming Jewish voters if he loses

(ABC News) Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign and Jewish advocacy groups on Friday forcefully criticized what they called former President Donald Trump's "dangerous" and "antisemitic" comments saying Jewish voters would be to blame if he lost the presidential election.

"I'll put it to you very simply and as gently as I can: I wasn't treated properly by the voters who happen to be Jewish," Trump said at an event Thursday night in Washington that was meant to highlight antisemitism. "I don't know. Do they know what the hell is happening if I don't win this election? And the Jewish people would really have a lot to do with that if that happens, because at 40% that means 60% of the people are voting for the enemy."

The backlash was fierce.

"Donald Trump is resorting to the oldest antisemitic tropes in the book because he's weak and can't stand the fact that the majority of America is going to reject him in November. But we know that words like these can have dangerous consequences," Harris campaign national security spokesperson Morgan Finkelstein said in a statement. "As Trump has proven, including over the past few weeks with his lies about Springfield, Ohio, he will cling to fearmongering and intimidation, no matter the cost."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/harris-campaign-jewish-groups-fiercely-200631139.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO&ncid=crm_19908-1202929-20240921-0&bt_user_id=uXEuXg7mDkc2LpNfllS8UqsEP4MTIlIJrX7VRMuf9MElDT304dk27IpgRcFi2UHl&bt_ts=1726910152517

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Harris campaign, Jewish groups fiercely criticize Trump preemptively blaming Jewish voters if he loses (Original Post) Dulcinea Sep 21 OP
That mofu is stoking the Nazi hellfires. GreenWave Sep 21 #1
Interesting that TSF isn't threatening Mainstream Christians, no_hypocrisy Sep 21 #2

GreenWave

(8,755 posts)
1. That mofu is stoking the Nazi hellfires.
Sat Sep 21, 2024, 06:11 AM
Sep 21

I hope he gets decimated in the elections and I don't want to hear from judges that his political demise is punishment enough.

no_hypocrisy

(48,339 posts)
2. Interesting that TSF isn't threatening Mainstream Christians,
Sat Sep 21, 2024, 07:10 AM
Sep 21

e.g., Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians, non-Evangelical Christians, if THEY don't vote for him.

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