Geraldo Rivera Breaks Down ‘Wicked Effective’ Tactic That Won Donald Trump The Election
Geraldo Rivera wrote on X, formerly Twitter, about how he believes his onetime friend Donald Trump decisively beat Democratic rival Kamala Harris (who Rivera endorsed) in the 2024 presidential election.
Harris may have been a history-making candidate, Rivera acknowledged in the lengthy post. But Trump proved “he is in a league of his own, the real Teflon Don” and as a “force of nature,” was “supremely confident and strategic” with his strategy of staying out of jail and demonizing “illegal immigrants, which he did with gusto,” said the former Fox News personality.
Read the full post here:
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kamala Harris, who ran a pretty good campaign under tough circumstances, a schedule squeezed by the last-minute swap of candidates. Once that bloodless coup was over, and President Biden reluctantly stepped aside, she went to work, a candidate for the…
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) November 10, 2024
Trump “made the undocumented synonymous with rapists and murderers,” Rivera continued. “They were poisoning the blood of the country, vermin, animals, dog and cat eaters from floating islands of garbage. He and his mouthpieces appealed unabashedly to every prejudice and fear of the other.”
That strategy was “wicked effective,” Rivera lamented because it “made Americans believe the country we all love was being stolen out from under us.”
But “mainly,” Rivera said, Harris just “wasn’t Trump, larger than life, powerful, heroic, defiant survivor of assassination attempts, Godzilla in a suit and extra-long necktie, avatar of free enterprise and gaudy realization of the American Dream.”
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