‘How Much Do We Want to Give Him Air?’— A Governor Grapples With Trump’s ‘Insanity’
The ex-president is descending on Aurora, Colorado today. Gov. Jared Polis talks about what to expect.
DONALD TRUMP IS HOLDING A CAMPAIGN rally in Aurora, Colorado, today as part of his ongoing campaign portraying the suburb of Denver as beset by roving bands of killer Venezuelan migrants who have more powerful weaponry than the U.S. military.
Aurora has taken on quasi-mythical status in Trump’s efforts to run the most doggedly anti-immigrant campaign in modern political history. The former president has gone so far as to claim that the crisis there is so grave it could result in Colorado’s Democratic governor Jared Polis fleeing the state.
So we checked in on Gov. Polis, who is safely ensconced in colorful Colorado. It was, he conceded, tricky to figure out how to counteract Trump’s demonization of the city.
“How much do we want to give him air? We’re talking about him. That’s what he wants. I’m trying to shift to how great Aurora is. I mean, whether it’s Koreatown or Stanley Marketplace or, you know, the new rec center that was actually funded by marijuana dollars . . . Aurora’s got a lot going on, and I’d love to pivot to that and attract more businesses and families to our third largest city. . . . Not only is all well. It’s better than it was. It is a much better city than it was in the ’80s and ’90s, and frankly, it is a safer city than it was two years ago.”
Polis also explained his rationale for supporting Kamala Harris, who he believes will be a “better president” than Joe Biden, and his fears of what might happen if Trump wins.
“I think we all realize it’s gonna be so painful to white knuckle the next four years over this lunacy,” he said. “So please, let’s elect Kamala Harris. This is just insanity.”
Trump will be speaking about 10 minutes from my home in Aurora today to talk about how Venezuelans like my wife are supposedly "destroying" my city. I get to spend the afternoon on the way home from work in I-70 traffic stuck behind MAGA assholes going to see him talk about this bullshit. Great start to my weekend, let me tell ya.
Listing to you and Jared reminding me of an aspect of the Trump tariffs that I don't think gets enough attention (and admittedly it's secondary or tertiary to the inflationary impact) is the mixing of tariffs with Trump's penchant for authoritarianism and punishing enemies and rewarding allies...imagine impacted businesses coming before the king asking for the inevitable exception from tariffs for their company.....the inevitable corruption and resultant picking of winners and losers by ONE man should make every ALLEGED conservative's head explode. He'd LOVE and abuse that sort of power and there'd be zero legal consequences for it and tragic impact on our economy. Would that argument help sway any of those "gettable" Republicans/independents or would they have the failure of imagination and/or just say that's TDS thinking?