Each of the 20 candidates needs to reevaluate their messaging regardless of the results, since the GOP has already begun their usual reactionary foolishness using proxies to disinform.
Enlisting pro-Trump African Americans for birther attacks on Harris, we are back to the strangeness of the guy who held up the Blacks for Trump signs at his rallies.
I am not including an example to avoid amplifying their hate, but when you go to one of their twitter locations you see the affiliations with white RWNJs.
For example the Biden-Harris interaction demonstrates the need for Biden to also deal with the GOP’s disinformation about his campaign as well as clarify his positions on public policy.
Yet in anonymously trying to exploit the fissures within the Democratic ranks — fissures that ran through this past week’s debates — Mr. Mauldin’s website hews far closer to the disinformation spread by Russian trolls in 2016 than typical political messaging. With nothing to indicate its creator’s motives or employer, the website offers a preview of what election experts and national security officials say Americans can expect to be bombarded with for the next year and a half: anonymous and hard-to-trace digital messaging spread by sophisticated political operatives whose aim is to sow discord through deceit. Trolling, that is, as a political strategy.
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Mr. Biden’s campaign knew about the fake website for months, but had not been of aware of who was behind it, said T.J. Ducklo, a campaign spokesman. “Imagine our surprise that a site full of obvious disinformation,” he said, “is the handiwork of an operative tied to the Trump campaign.”
Mr. Ducklo sought to place the website firmly in the context of Mr. Trump’s own social media habits — such as tweeting doctored videos — and what he said was the president’s lack of interest in measures to ensure the integrity of American elections.
In addition to Mr. Biden, Mr. Mauldin has anonymously set up faux campaign websites for at least three other Democratic front-runners. “Millionaire Bernie” seeks to tar Mr. Sanders as a greedy socialist; “Elizabeth Warren for Chief” mocks her claim of Native American ancestry; and “Kamala Harris for Arresting the People” highlights her work as a prosecutor who, the site says, “put parents in jail for children skipping school — and laughed about it.”
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Disinformation messaging is only going to get worse before it gets better at this stage as the active measures will only increase. It’s already beyond needing counter-messaging. Serious proactive measures need to be taken since 2016 already showed the effect of foreign disinformation. Much worse are the above GOP operatives, because they will go beyond their stunningly lazy use of stock photos. Breitbart immediately interviewing Gabbard is only the beginning of reactionary efforts for 2020.
Kamala Harris broke out from the other nine Democrats onstage during the second Democratic presidential primary debate on Thursday, calling on her personal experiences of racial injustice as a black woman.
“As the only black person on this stage, I would like to speak on the issue of race,” Harris said.
That’s when she was attacked on Twitter by a conservative provocateur for not being an “American black.” It’s a play straight out of the racist birther playbook used against Barack Obama when he ran for president a decade earlier. This time, though, those kinds of allegations don’t have to circulate for years on obscure right-wing forums before they reach a mainstream audience. On Thursday night, spammers and even one of President Trump’s sons spread the attack to millions of people within hours.
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