UVA Professor Larry Sabato, speaking on CNN this morning, had the following to say:
- “You started off your show calling [Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally] disgusting. If anything…that’s an understatement. Really, what’s happened is, we now are so hardened to this kind of stuff, we’re numbed to it after 9 years of Donald Trump, so that we don’t react like we used to react, it doesn’t affect the vote the way it used to affect the vote.”
- “In one tweet, I referred to the 1939 gathering at the old Madison Square Garden of the German-American Bundestag…pro-Hitler, and it was funded by the Nazis….That happened there. That is not to say that the…thousands and thousands of people who came were Nazis, it was a reference to what Donald Trump has been revealed as having said favorable to Adolf Hitler, which once would have been the kiss of death in politics. And we know it’s true, because people who have more integrity in their pinkie like John Kelly and Gen. Milley have told us what Donald Trump…said during his first term, and my guess is he’ll go even further in a second term.”
- “That is the one practical result of this that I can see that’s possible at least, maybe it’s probable, I would say possible, you’ve got 580,000 Hispanics just in Pennsylvania, about half of them are Puerto Rican, of Puerto Rican descent. By the way, all Puerto Ricans are American citizens…So it may have some impact there, we’ll have to see. But there isn’t much time left. Maybe Bad Bunny can do a better job of communicating it than any campaign could.”
- “It’s not at though editorials really influence many votes, but the whole idea of these major news organizations really being intimidated even before someone is elected or takes office is shocking. The Washington Post’s slogan during the Trump administration was that ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness.’ Well it also dies in silence – and they’ve chosen to be silent. And it sent exactly the wrong message to Americans before they go to the polls and potentially how we will approach a second Trump term.”
By the way, the fact that Sabato is being attacked by the likes of Stephen Miller (“what you’d get if Joseph Goebbels and Pee Wee Herman fucked and made a baby, then never once gave it a hug”) and Chris LaCivita (yep, the “Swift Boat” smear monger guy) for saying something that’s obviously true is VERY telling. Of course, what they’re trying to do is intimidate Sabato from speaking out, but hopefully they won’t succeed – stay strong, Professor Sabato!
10.28.24 1055 am ET CNN Newsroom Anchor Jim Acosta @acosta w/
Director, @UV @center4politics, Larry Sabato @LarrySabato
Focus : Continued analysis of the Trump MSG Rally and The Washington Post not endorsing a Presidential Candidate
Sabato : “We are so hardened to this… pic.twitter.com/XGKxgOyUML
— Jeff Storobinsky (@jeffstorobinsky) October 28, 2024
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