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The Press Response to Trump's Word Salad Answer on Childcare is Peak Sanewashing

He rambled for two minutes. You wouldn't know that from a lot of the media coverage.

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Sep 06, 2024
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Earlier this week, I wrote an article for The New Republic (and expanded on it in a post here at TPA) about how the media “sanewashes” Trump. If you missed that, I recommend checking it out.

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And then yesterday, we were given a perfect example of this.

Moms First CEO and Founder Reshma Saujani asked Trump: "If you win in November, can you commit to priorit…

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