The big story here is him saying animals.
Agreed. What a vile racist piece of garbage he is.
I despise Trump, but what part of that was racist? "Animals" is used within a derogatory term to refer to criminals. It is not a racially loaded word.
I think it is racially loaded. Especially in a Southern context.
As if the South had a monopoly on racism.
...that wasn't really my point. I'm just noting that in the South a Democrat today is much more likely to be black than in the rest of the US, so referring to Democrats as animals I think takes on a racial undertone there in a way it wouldn't if this had happened in Vermont.