2024 Elections

Donald Trump's dog whistle rhetoric has fueled a "staggering" increase in hate crimes in the U.S. that one expert warns has reached the point of crisis.

Sharon Nazarian, political science professor and board member of the Anti-Defamation League, told Salon Friday that Trump's rhetoric, such as when he described some of the white supremacists who marched at an infamous 2017 rally in Charlottesville as "very fine people," to a stark increase in anti-Semitic attacks.

Reacting to the growing number of Democratic lawmakers who have publically called for President Joe Biden to step aside for another 2024 presidential nominee, the Rev. Al Sharpton warned on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," that the party is in danger of losing Black voters.

Speaking with co-host Willie Geist, Sharpton noted that the overwhelming number of the lawmakers who have taken that stand are white, which he suggested is indicative of a tone-deaf party.

Asked about the possibility of Biden stepping aside, Sharpton replied, "I'm hearing it, yes, but I'm also hearing, not so fast because, if not Biden, then how do we do a transition that doesn't put us in a more dangerous position?"

"I was in Milwaukee yesterday doing a eulogy for a Black man killed by some hotel guards," he recalled. "People in an uproar about that are saying to me, you cannot win Wisconsin without Milwaukee and Black turnout. And they were saying to me, well, we have questions about Biden's age, but where do we go? Are they going to try to undermine Kamala Harris?"

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"So, I think that if we're talking a coalition, you've got to remember the basic roots of that coalition: Blacks, Latinos, and labor," he continued. "You can't just take for granted, we're going to go where some people just want to go and abandon someone who has been with us."

"I looked at the press conference last night and said, where are the Black reporters?" he told the MSNBC host. "I mean, we're looking at all whites questioning Biden, and Black voters are supposed to get in line? I think that a lot of the people that are stepping out there taking things for granted. You notice that maybe only one member of the Congressional Black Caucus has said Biden ought to step aside."

"Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC) will be on [MSNBC's] 'Politics Nation' with me tomorrow night. I'll be guided a lot by what he has to say," he remarked. " Don't forget, it was the stonewall of the Black voter and then the Latino vote that put Biden in nomination. And for us to be left out of these discussions I think is offensive and elitist."

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During a segment on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" about the controversial Project 2025 that Donald Trump is fleeing from, regular contributor Elise Jordan stated it is the best weapon against the former president and his campaign and it is getting under their skin.

Speaking with co-host Wille Geist, NBC correspondent Vaughan Hilyard set the table by noting that the authoritarian Project 2025 proposed firing as many as 50,000 civil service workers and replacing them with Trump loyalists.

As Jordan argued, revelations like that are frightening the public and that is the last thing they want to deal with when they feel that they have President Joe Biden on the ropes.

"You could destroy the infrastructure of government that's taken so many decades to build up," Jordan, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, explained.

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Two Middle Tennesseans will be featured on billboards erected near Milwaukee’s Fiserv Arena, site of the 2024 Republican National Convention, as part of an advertising campaign organized by Republican Voters Against Trump. The campaign includes 15 billboards and a 60-second ad running in four battleground states.

Scott Moore, a 63-year-old from Nashville, is one of the featured Tennesseans. An Army veteran, Moore said he was a Republican voter from the time he registered to vote at 18 — he voted for former President Donald Trump in 2016 — and that the choice to connect with the group was difficult.

Reacting to President Joe Biden's largely successful press conference on Thursday night, MSNBC "Morning Joe" regular Mike Barnicle diverged from the topic at hand and criticized the press — including himself — for over-dwelling on the president's "flubs" while disregarding Donald Trump's more egregious comments.

Speaking with co-host Wille Geist and "Way Too Early" host Jonathan Lemire, Barnicle said a little self-reflection by the Washington media mob would go a long way.

"What's amazing to me is the amount of attention we pay in the media, all of us, to the flubs," he began before noting Biden meant to say Vice President Kamala Harris and substituted Trump's name.

"You know, Vice President Trump instead of Vice President Harris — things like that," he continued. "That stuff has come with the dinner with Joe Biden for 40 years and we regard it each and every time he makes a flub, it's shocking. It's not shocking."

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"What is truly shocking in terms of balance, and you referenced it, is Donald Trump's, not flubs, his incendiary rhetoric. Rhetoric aimed at dividing the country, at turning one group of people against another group of people, of threatening institutions like NATO, of threatening a country like Ukraine, things like that," he added.

"We pay less attention to his rhetoric than we do," before adding a mocking "'Oh, my god, he called her Vice President Trump.' No, we have to get our act together and balance this thing out."

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