Who Trump Is Trying to Reach With His Attack on Harris' Race

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : But whether Trump realized it or not, he touched on a topic that has circulated in fringe online communities for years -- and not just in right-wing forums.
36% : But it's important to note that critiques from ADOS and the like differ from those of right-wing actors like Trump.
21% : This is the message that Trump seeks to sow with his contempt for Harris' identity: that she won't pick a side -- and that her lack of allegiance to one race or ethnicity or "side" makes her inherently untrustworthy.
7% : Trump's going to "try to de-authenticate her as Black," Alim said, "trying to paint her as someone using Blackness to gain political favor."And indeed, by the end of the day, Trump proxies were attempting to build on this initial attempt to paint Harris as "a liar" and a "phony."
6% : There are already tweets circulating about Harris' birth certificate, a clear callback to the bad-faith attacks on Obama's first campaign that were also pioneered by Trump.

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