Donald Trump is leaning into racist screeds in the closing days of his re-election campaign, and the Rev. Al Sharpton says that was inevitable.
The Republican presidential nominee has been ramping up his attacks on immigrants, whom he devoted nearly an entire speech over the weekend in Wisconsin by smearing them as “stone-cold killers," “monsters” and “vile animals," and Sharpton told MSNBC's Morning Joe" that Trump doesn't really have any other moves.
"He doesn't know any other strategy, because he did start his political campaigns on birtherism," Sharpton said. "He has a long negative racial history here in New York, and he's like an entertainer that just has no new material. He's gotten where he can't hardly go on stage without fumbling. I mean, to listen to his speeches and the incoherence of what he's saying, he can only go back to what he knows, which is race, because the rest, he just completely embarrasses himself."
However, his campaign against Kamala Harris remains neck and neck, and Sharpton said that even a deeply flawed candidate like Trump can't be counted out.
"The danger, though, is that a lot of people are playing into it and listening to it, and I always say to Democrats, we can laugh and joke about how he's losing it, he's still very much tied in the polls in key places," Sharpton said. "He should not be underestimated, and it tells us a lot about the work that we have to do in this country when a man can stand up and talk about, 'Let's have one violent day,' and he doesn't lose any points on the polls. We have a long way to go and we're the ones that are going to have to bring our country to that place."
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