He reserved his most notable criticism of his party for their handling of the border crisis. "Too many Democrats thought it was politically incorrect to stand up for controlled borders. People hate chaos," he said. He was more reserved when Sorkin tried to draw him on the New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd's criticism that for Democrats "woke was broke". "There's something to that," he said, but he did not discuss his reported opposition to the Harris campaign's handling of Trump's transgender attack ads.
The former president was mostly upset by Biden's breaking of repeated promises that he wasn't going to pardon his son.https://t.co/8vFB1jQiqt
" The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 4, 2024
Lots of interesting stuff in there. Will the Dems listen? Probably not. From another article discussing Bill C's take:
The Charlamagne ad ranked as one of the Trump team's most effective 30-second spots, according to an analysis by Future Forward, Ms. Harris's leading super PAC. It shifted the race 2.7 percentage points in Mr. Trump's favor after viewers watched it. The anti-trans ads cut to the core of the Trump argument: that Ms. Harris was "dangerously liberal" - the exact vulnerability her team was most worried about. The ads were effective with Black and Latino men, according to the Trump team, but also with moderate suburban white women who might be concerned about transgender athletes in girls' sports.
Those were the same suburban women Ms. Harris was trying to mobilize with ads about abortion.
Democrats struggled to respond. At one point, former President Bill Clinton told an associate, "We have to answer it and say we won't do it." He even raised the issue in a conversation with the campaign and was told the Trump ads were not necessarily having an impact, according to two people familiar with his conversations. He never broached the topic publicly.
The Harris team debated internally how to respond. Ads the Harris team produced with a direct response to the "they/them" ads wound up faring poorly in internal tests. The ads never ran.
Why Trump's Anti-Trans Ad Worked
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