The admonitions come as Republicans and Trump‘s campaign scramble to adjust to the reality of a new Democratic rival less than four months before Election Day.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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
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.
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.
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.
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.
From behind closed doors: "Hey guys lets turn down the racism just a smidge. Back to dog whistles for now. Don't worry we can be overtly racist again after the general"
Trump made them think its fine to keep saying the quiet part out loud without realizing the majority hate the sexism and hopefully a majority also hate the racism. They don't know how to attack without dog whisteling and hopefully it continues to drive people away from them.
Time to secretly get some recordings of what they are really saying at their dinner party circles à la the recent recordings of Supreme Court justices discussing flags in their neighborhoods.
I was watching CNN again the other night and they had some Republican guy on the panel who admitted this, when they asked him about the "DEI Candidate" talk he said it was unfortunate and a bad idea but that the language had been monetized on social media so everyone's been trained to say it.