Rachel Maddow took a couple of minutes throughout her present Monday night time to interrupt down a few of the basic variations between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns and bemoan the media’s baffling need to fake the 2 candidates are someway on the identical taking part in area.
“They are not the same kind of candidates. They are not doing the same kinds of things,” Maddow mentioned, citing the greater than 700 nationwide safety and former army officers who lately signed a letter endorsing Harris.
And alternatively?
“Here’s Trump promising that if he’s president, he’s going to find where California is hiding its huge secret faucet that they used to dump all the rainwater into the ocean,” Maddow mentioned. Even Canadians, who’re legendarily good, say Trump’s insistence that water scarcity points could possibly be simply mounted by ending environmental protections is “uninformed.”
Maddow then pointed to Harris’ plan to assist working- and middle-class households with an expanded little one tax credit score.
“Here, on the other hand, is Donald Trump saying he’s going to abolish the Department of the Interior,” Maddow mentioned, then paused. “For some reason. Nobody has bothered asking him why. Why do you want to abolish the Department of the Interior?” Anybody questioning gained’t be stunned to study that very thought may be examine within the anti-democracy Challenge 2025.
Maddow additionally highlighted Trump’s many guarantees to punish his critics utilizing government powers.
Her apparent conclusion?
“One in all these items just isn’t like the opposite.”
The truth that Home Republicans largely ignored Trump’s latest calls for to close down the federal government “would have led the news for days,” Maddow explains. But the media is all business as usual “while Trump instead races toward Election Day, rolling out a new scam, some new money-making effort to squeeze money out of his fans almost every day.”
This consists of every thing from cryptocurrency, to Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara releasing a brand new music video, to former first woman Melania Trump’s weird social media marketing campaign making an attempt to drum up press for her upcoming memoir.
“Imagine if Kamala Harris was, like, rolling out a mortgage scam and some commemorative trinkets right now?” Maddow says. “Not for the campaign, but just to, like, get her and Doug some money.”
The bar for Trump is so low it could be not possible to search out.
