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>> Trump, with his lying and outright vote buying (No Taxes on Tips) is the kind of right wing candidate that can win enough immigrants to be nationally viable.

• rayiner 1y ago
  The democratic party has been operating on that principle for a lot longer, because low information immigrants are also a key part of their coalition (and have been since the irish and italian immigration of the 20th century).
• danaris 1y ago
  But the media wasn't interested in reporting on what Harris's positions were, only on whatever Trump said that week. The same as the media wasn't interested in reporting on all the many accomplishments of the Biden administration, despite the headwinds they had to push against. So most people thought that "no taxes on tips" was a Trump position that differentiated him from Harris.
  • docdeek 1y ago
    I don’t think that it was the coverage (or lack of it) that had people associate that policy more with Trump than Harris. I think it is far more likely that Trump announcing it in June and talking about it for two months before Harris announced she also supported the policy in August was what made it seem more a Trump policy than a shared policy. The Democrats were slow to react and so - even if they decided to get on board a couple of months before the election - they were always going to be depicted as playing catchup.
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    • danaris 1y ago
      I mean...if Trump announced the policy in June, that was before Harris was even the presumptive nominee.