Elon Musk's creepy Taylor Swift tweet only made things worse for Trump

In politics, it's always good to rely on completely disingenuous claims that dehumanize an entire segment of the population while one of your key surrogates mocks a hugely popular pop star with a creepy comment that sounds like the kind of thing a sexist divorced dad would hit on a younger woman.

Is that true? Okay, maybe that's not true. That sounds like a bad political maneuver.

But that's exactly what Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign has been doing since he stumbled off the debate stage in Philadelphia on Tuesday night after being soundly defeated by Vice President Kamala Harris. Republicans are repeating Trump's grotesque lie that immigrants eat people's pets while watching billionaire and Trump superfan Elon Musk foolishly try to get the attention of Taylor Swift.