Donald Trump is proving heā€™s racist and stupid with his latest post.

In a Truth Social post Thursday morning, Donald Trump appeared to suggest, again, thatĀ presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris isnā€™t really Black, ramping up his identity-based attacks to the horror of those in his party who consider racism a losing electoral strategy.

Earlier in the week, many GOP strategists, including in the Trump camp,Ā worriedĀ that attacks on Harrisā€™s race and genderā€”which seemed all but inevitable considering Trumpā€™s history of racism and misogynyā€”would pose a serious liability for the campaign. ā€œWe hope he doesnā€™t act like a crazy racist and sexist person, but we canā€™t control him,ā€ a source close to the campaignĀ toldĀ The Washington Post.

These hopes were quickly dashed in the course of Trumpā€™s interview with the National Association of Black Journalists Wednesday afternoon, in which the candidateĀ claimedĀ that, for years, Vice President Kamala Harris ā€œwas Indian all the way, and then suddenly she made a turn and she became a Black person.ā€

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    How many conservatives do you know that admit the severity of covid after the fact, even after losing loved ones?

    Their heads are firmly buried in the sand. Itā€™s a non-factor of that voting demographic.

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      My sister is adamant my dad didnā€™t die of covid despite you know, getting covid and dying in the hospital a few days later. And the death certificate states the cause of death as Covid. Oh, he most likely caught it in her bar which she reopened as soon as the WI supreme court ruled that lock down doesnā€™t apply to bars.

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      I have a conservative friend whose father died from covid which absolutely devistated her. Sheā€™s from a small rural town she used to love but cannot stand it anymore because everyone she knew there was like ā€œgodā€™s planā€ blablabla without offering any real sympathy. So there are a few running around out there, but by far the minority.

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      I know several people that sort of leaned moderate republican that are now just democrats. It really depends on their news

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        Personally, all the moderate conservatives I knew abandoned the republican party long before covid hit, but I can see that being the last straw for a few. By the time covid came along, the only conservatives I know that were still Red voters stayed red after covid