Is MAGA MSG Rally the October Surprise?

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I mean, not that their behavior is surprising but …

I’ve always thought the 1992 GOP Convention, particularly Pat Buchanan’s speech, was the most destructive thing that happened to the GHWB re-election campaign. It wasn’t just Buchanan, though his speech was the culmination of the turn toward far right militia and other groups by an already desperate Bush campaign.

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“…, Patrick J. Buchanan rocked the Republican convention in Houston by declaring there was a “cultural war” taking place for the soul of America, denouncing the Democratic Party as one that supported abortion, radical feminism and the “homosexual rights movement.”

“The agenda Clinton and Clinton would impose on America — abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat — that’s change, all right,” said Mr. Buchanan, a conservative commentator who was a rival to President George Bush in the 1992 campaign. “But it is not the kind of change America wants.”

The speech — along with similarly sharp-edged addresses by the evangelist Pat Robertson and Marilyn Quayle, the wife of Vice President Dan Quayle — pushed issues like abortion, gay rights, religion and the role of women in society to the front of the stage, often loudly. Supporters of Mr. Bush pointed to the tone of the convention as one of the reasons he lost the election that November to Bill Clinton. …”

 
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“I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” said comedian Tony Hinchcliffe

 
I am trying to hold out hope of this, but I also held out hope that the Hurricane Maria response would have some impact on the Florida Senate race at the time and that didn't happen.
 
What’s the surprise? We have always known this is who they are.
We know but we were never voting for Trump.

Maybe these things will make a few Trump leaning African Americans and Latinos think twice.

I have my doubts whether that would happen but my point still stands. Some people don't know who Trump really is.
 
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