OK, here’s the thing.
This should be a state issue, and a better answer to this obvious setup would have been “look, that’s not a federal issue, so my views on that particular point don’t really matter’, or words to that effect.
But what he said was: “There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go. They use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate ... “
Which seems to me to be missing the point in a couple of ways, the first of which is that NC should be free to set their own rules, and second that all the state law did was get out ahead of the sickos and keep things the way they are, preventing local jurisdictions from forcing people to allow “trans” people into the ladies’ room.
That said, Trump somewhat uncharacteristically was diplomatic and oblique. But the distinction between “They use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate...” and “Just let the perverts choose their own toilets” is one of inflection, and perhaps politeness. It would only become a “lie” if the poster tried to present those words as a direct quote, which he did not.
But anyway, what I’m trying to get at in a sort of roundabout way is that this infighting is going to kill us. I don’t know how Trump charts a course to 270 electoral votes. But it’s bigger than Trump. It’s going to take all of us pulling together to have even a remote chance. And with all due respect, characterizing a fair representation of one of Mr. Trump’s less-than-conservative utterances as a “lie” is toxic.
He could have done better, but the problem I have is with the mischacterisation by the Cruzers of his central points.
They claim he’s transgender supporting, or a dozen other ugly things they claim about this nothing burger. Which, by the way ARE lies.
I agree about the infighting, I also agree with Jim Robinson when he says that Cruz staying in only thrills the totalitarian left.
He can’t win, but he can continue to do the bidding of the bush/romney/gope and be the turd in the punch bowl.
In doing that, he and his supporters have lost their collective minds and are cooperating with the very forces they claim to be against.