The aftershocks continue from Donald Trump's neutron bomb of an interview on Wednesday at the National Association of Black Journalists.
Aside from learning Trump kept the crowd waiting for over an hour because his staff was pushing back about being fact-checked in real-time, the overt racism on display inspired Democrats to raise a whopping $23 million for Vice President Kamala Harris in just one day.
Trump claimed that VP Harris wasn’t Black, and had "only recently decided to turn Black." Trump also attacked the three Black female journalists interviewing him rather than answer the questions, and handed the Harris campaign plenty of new content for their ads and posts.
Donations began spiking in the hour after the interview ended, according to Democratic pollster and strategist Matt McDermott.
In other good news for Democrats, the United Auto Workers (UAW) endorsed Vice President Harris for president on Wednesday. The endorsement was expected since they had already backed President Joe Biden before he stepped aside. President Biden was the first sitting president to stand on a picket line with UAW workers, and his loyalty hasn't been forgotten.
UAW President Shawn Fain said in a statement that the union’s “job” in this year’s election was to defeat Trump. The union has more than a million active and retired members with a strong base in what the Democrats call the “blue wall” states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
“We can put a billionaire back in office who stands against everything our union stands for, or we can elect Kamala Harris who will stand shoulder to shoulder with us in our war on corporate greed,” Fain said.