Transcript: Trump’s Angry, Abusive Tirade at Kamala Demands a Response
Milligan: No, I do. Again, with an abortion referendum on the ballot in Nevada, I think that could help a lot. A lot of stuff, we don’t know; for example, voter registration and turnout in a lot of these states. I don’t think that Taylor Swift’s endorsement is going to make people say, The woman who’s saying I’m never ever getting back together with you endorsed Kamala, therefore I’m going to vote for her. But I do think that she has gotten a lot of young women to register to vote and make some feel empowered and will probably increase turnout for us. There’s some things that we can’t when we that we don’t see in the polling. We don’t really see motivation and we don’t see some of these new voter registration numbers.
Sargent: I do agree that that’s going to be a big factor. I want to remind everyone as well that there was a time earlier in the summer when Trump advisors and allies were publicly saying that Trump needed to dial back the personal attacks on Harris. You notice how we don’t hear that anymore? Trump is not only going to traffic and slime all the way to the end, he’s won this argument with his party that this is how they’re going to do politics from now on by treating women like shit.
Milligan: Yes, we’re seeing that even from some Republican members of the Senate and the House, people that you would not have expected to speak that way before, making insulting comments about Harris, repeating lies, suggesting that people in North Carolina aren’t getting any assistance from FEMA and it’s Harris’s fault. I would not have expected that from them even four years ago, never mind before 2016. But the thing with Trump is that that worked for him in 2016, and he keeps reverting back to what worked in 2016 because let’s remember, he hasn’t really won an election since then. There was a big pushback even in 2017 in the offyear elections. In 2020, obviously, 2022, the only win they had was Glenn Youngkin, big win in Virginia, and that was, frankly, because Terry McAuliffe was not the strongest candidate. But the senate races, the senate candidates that Trump has backed have lost. So he keeps reverting back to the thing that worked for him in 2016. I just don’t think that that’s what people are looking for now. One of those things is having huge rallies, not doing a lot of groundwork there, and insulting people, but I think it’s gotten old.
