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Dem Strategist Spots How Trump Is 'Punishing' Vance With His 'Turn Black' Remarks
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Simon Rosenberg said Trump's comments could cause "even more significant" estrangement between him and his running mate.
Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg explained why it’s “clear” to him that former President Donald Trump is regretting picking Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate.
“He’s aware that it’s dragging the entire ticket down and I think in his own diseased brain he started punishing Vance by now raising this issue of biracial heritage and everything else,” said Rosenberg in a recent interview with the MeidasTouch Network.
Trump, in a disastrous Q&A at the National Association of Black Journalists convention on Wednesday, made a racist claim about Vice President Kamala Harris’ identity and declared that she “happened to turn Black.”
The Democratic strategist, earlier in the interview, told host Ben Meiselas that Trump’s comments could cause “even more significant” estrangement between the former president and his VP pick, whose wife Usha Vance is a child of Indian immigrants.
He said Trump’s “disaster” VP choice was one of three things that contributed to “this magical moment” in the 2024 election cycle.