We’ve got lastly reached Election Day 2024. October alone appears to have lasted roughly 1,000 days. However what was the vaunted “October surprise,” that information occasion that will have modified the election’s consequence?
It’s arduous to say when the one most outrageous political candidate of the trendy period is operating for workplace. Nonetheless, let’s have a look at what the occasions that almost all influenced this race.
Trump chickens out of “60 Minutes” interview
After attacking Vice President Kamala Harris and saying she was too afraid and never mentally competent sufficient to do sit-down interviews, Donald Trump ran sooner than a hen at a fox’s dinner desk from a “60 Minutes” interview. Harris did the interview and nailed it. How badly scared was Trump? Virtually a month later, he sued CBS for $10 billion, saying the enhancing of Harris’ interview quantities to “election interference.”
The Madison Sq. Backyard rally
Nothing encapsulated the MAGA motion fairly just like the bigotry on show at Trump’s Bund-style rally in New York Metropolis’s well-known Madison Sq. Backyard. On the occasion, far-right comic Tony Hinchcliffe hurled racist “jokes” about Blacks and Latinos, at one level referring to Puerto Rico as “a floating island of garbage.”
The blowback from the occasion has lasted, insulting a whole block of voters. The hateful show was so past the pale that even some Republican racists, like Florida Sen. Rick Scott, distanced themselves from the occasion.
Trump says a well known critic of his ought to face a firing squad
This previous Thursday, when former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a serious Trump critic, got here up throughout a Q&A with former Fox New host Tucker Carlson, Trump stated, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her where the rifle’s standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about—you know when the guns are trained on her face.”
This indefensible assertion was made worse when Trump surrogates tried … to defend it. (They did very poorly, to say the least.)
Trump’s “enemy from within” assertion
Throughout a mid-October interview, Trump stated that the individuals he considers the “enemy from within” are extra harmful than overseas adversaries in Russia and China, and he would contemplate deploying federal army forces towards them. It was such a scary assertion that Fox Information tried to whitewash throughout its interview with Harris by making an attempt to go off a separate clip as the unique assertion.
Trump wished he had Nazi generals
On Oct. 22, The Atlantic revealed an article by which sources advised a narrative of Trump admiring Adolf Hitler’s generals, saying, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had. … People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.” This text, together with one in The New York Instances, additionally featured retired Gen. John Kelly, the longest-serving chief of employees in Trump’s White Home, spoke about Trump’s admiration for dictators and appropriately stated Trump met the definition of a fascist.
Trump reminds everybody he’s rubbish
This one is multipronged.
First, in an try to distract from his racist Madison Sq. Backyard rally, Trump staged a media stunt the place he struggled to open the door of a rubbish truck earlier than taking questions and footage whereas sitting within the passenger seat.
But additionally, regardless of the upcoming election, Trump and the GOP struggled to cover their misogyny. Whether or not it was the fury with which conservatives responded to the suggestion {that a} girl may need her personal opinions of Trump as president, or Trump telling girls he would “protect” them “whether the women like it or not,” Trump and his social gathering couldn’t cease themselves from proving, repeatedly, how little they consider girls and girls’s rights.
Perhaps there isn’t a one shock, and perhaps with somebody like Trump one can by no means be stunned at how monstrously low he can sink.
If I missed any, please be happy to throw them within the remark thread under!
