Conservatives Torch Controversial Comedy Routine at Trump Rally: ‘Stupid,’ ‘Classless’ and ‘Racist’ https://www.mediaite.com/news/conse...e-at-trump-rally-stupid-classless-and-racist/
Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally Sunday evening was supposed to provide his closing argument against Kamala Harris. Instead, Trump and his supporters are being forced to answer for hateful and racist rhetoric delivered from the podium Sunday night with just eight days left in the campaign. The comments, while reminiscent of many made by Trump in the campaign’s final weeks, were made by a comedian early in the night’s schedule and were supposed to be jokes. Now, they are dominating the news cycle and putting Trump’s campaign on the backfoot with just under a week until the election. Longtime Trump adviser Peter Navarro is calling the comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, “the biggest, stupidest asshole that ever came down the comedy pike” after he called Puerto Rico a “floating island of hot garbage” during his often-vulgar opening set. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/28/trump-madison-square-garden-rally-tony-hinchcliffe-00185793
Abraham Lincoln's favorite song was "Dixie", which ironically had been adopted by the Confederacy as one of its de-facto national anthems during the civil war. Lincoln had it played at several of his political rallies and also to a crowd at the White House the day after Robert E. Lee's surrender.
It's a data point or you are only interested in data that suits your bubble? How about this Do swing voters care about New York Times headlines? Absolutely not, which is why it’s strange that the Times’s critics are so obsessed with them. But there’s some initial evidence that the rally is drawing broader attention: today and yesterday are the top days of Google search traffic for Trump since the second assassination attempt against him in September. This data, from Google Trends, took a little while to put together5. But I think it was worthwhile because it shows off the degree to which the campaign has really been dictated by major events that occurred earlier on in the race. And in particular, one major event: the first assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. My view is that the attempted assassination is of underrated importance in assessing the trajectory of the race, in part because it occurred amid a number of other major events (Biden dropping out and the Republican National Convention) that are hard to disaggregate. But Trump’s favorability ratings rose by a net of about 4 points after the assassination to the highest level they’ve been in years and have more or less held there since. If the race is as close as polls show, the sympathy it generated might be enough to make a difference. But the MSG rally does show some signs of going viral. Google searches for Hinchliffe have — presumably temporarily — surpassed those for Taylor Swift. https://www.natesilver.net/p/trumps-dominating-the-news-again