“Weird.” It’s an eye-roll-inducing word, overused as it’s been these past two months. The term, which arguably won Governor Tim Walz the No.
2 spot on the Democratic ticket, was a stroke of folksy, linguistic genius: finally, a way to dismissively describe Donald Trump and his cohort without dipping into a self-righteous tone that could turn off wary swing voters. Trump bounded onto the national political stage nearly a decade ago by making race-baiting populism mainstream again. But this year there’s an extra layer of unhinged to his performance—in a recent nationally televised debate , for example, Trump said that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were eating household pets .
When challenged by moderators about this online conspiracy theory, Trump defended himself by saying he’d heard about it on TV, which, indeed, was a weird thing to say. The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. Trump’s Vice-Presidential nominee, the Ohio senator J.
D. Vance , added fuel to the racist conspiracy about his own Haitian constituents, by posting on X, “A child was murdered by a Haitian migrant who had no right to be here.” The child in question, an eleven-year-old named Aiden Clark, died after a Haitian immigrant, who was in the country legally on a Temporary Protected Status visa, crashed his car into Clark’s school bus.
Clark’s death was no less tragic or senseless but certainly less premeditated than Vance’s remarks might let on (the driver was c.