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Knowing he needs to do some work to start getting back the suburban white women who should have been his bread and butter, Donald Trump decided to get debate help from Roger Ailes — the alleged serial sexual predator who was recently ousted from Fox News based on an internal investigation into numerous sexual harassment claims against him.
Trump doing debate prep today w help from Roger Ailes and Laura Ingraham per @KellyO
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) August 28, 2016
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Nothing says “surrounding himself with the best people” like bringing on yet another low brow person in deep legal trouble.
Donald Trump is polling down with white women. NPR reported on a NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll that while “Romney won white women by 14 points — 56-42 percent, according to national exit polls”, Donald trump “is down a point with the group, 43-42 percent. That’s a 15-point shift. No Republican can afford that.”
So what does he do… He brings in Roger Ailes.
While Trump has been speaking to his mostly white audiences about African Americans to offer his supporters some kind of plausible denial of his racism to hang their hats on in public, he hasn’t done anything about his problem with women. He just keeps on digging the political misogyny grave.
Even with his new hire of Kellyanne Conway, who was touted as the person who could fix his problem with women (based on her past comments and positions, I never understood this reasoning and it seems for good reason), Trump doesn’t have a clue how to appeal to women. And he’s running against a woman, and continuing to say really insulting things like she doesn’t “look” like a president.
Many of Ailes’ alleged victims were conservative women too, reportedly including Fox News star Megyn Kelly. And at least one of them is reported to have a very damaging recording of Ailes.
This is not the sort of person a presidential candidate should be standing next to, let alone a person from whom a presidential candidate should be seeking debate advice.
For a debate against a woman, no less.
The media has drastically lowered their standards for Trump, perhaps in a sign of exhaustion, but it’s a dangerous road to go down. The man is running to be president. Standards matter.
This is the new “presidential”, Republican style — pallin’ around with an alleged serial sexual predator.
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