{"id":2213174,"date":"2024-04-04T15:55:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T19:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-trone-backs-out-of-debate-with-african-american-primary-opponent-amid-backlash-over-use-of-racial-slur\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T19:55:28","slug":"david-trone-backs-out-of-debate-with-african-american-primary-opponent-amid-backlash-over-use-of-racial-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-trone-backs-out-of-debate-with-african-american-primary-opponent-amid-backlash-over-use-of-racial-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"David Trone withdraws from debate with African-American primary rival following criticism for using racial slur"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdavid-trone-backs-out-of-debate-with-african-american-primary-opponent-amid-backlash-over-use-of-racial-slur%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2213174&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. David Trone, a Democrat from\u2062 Maryland, has opted out of \u200da televised debate\u200b with his black female Senate primary \u2064competitor due to backlash over his use of a racial slur. This decision follows Trone&#8217;s \u2062inappropriate use of the term \u200d&#8221;jigaboo&#8221; during a conversation with another black woman in March. The \u2062fallout has impacted his \u200bcampaign, with Angela Alsobrooks gaining endorsements and\u200b narrowing the gap in polls. Trone&#8217;s campaign justification for \u2062skipping the debate raised questions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tRep. David Trone (X\/@davidjtrone)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Rep. David Trone (D., Md.) on Wednesday backed out of a televised debate with his Senate primary opponent, a black woman, amid ongoing fallout from his use of a racial slur.<\/p>\n<p>Trone\u2019s refusal to participate in the April 23 debate with Prince George\u2019s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks comes amid fallout from his &#8220;mistaken&#8221; use of a racial slur. In March, Trone used the word &#8220;jigaboo&#8221; as he bantered with Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young, also a black woman, about corporate tax rates.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland Democrat&#8217;s use of the phrase had immediate repercussions for his campaign. Alsobrooks racked up high-profile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/03\/25\/raskin-endorse-alsobrooks-maryland-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsements<\/a> from several members of the Congressional Black Caucus in the week following the incident, and a poll released Tuesday showed Alsobrooks chipping away at Trone\u2019s lead in the race. The Goucher College and <em>Baltimore Banner <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goucher.edu\/hughes-center\/documents\/Goucher-College-Poll-Spring-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> showed Trone with 42 percent support from Democratic voters in Maryland, with Alsobrooks trailing with 33 percent support.<\/p>\n<p>The Trone campaign offered several perplexing explanations for the congressman&#8217;s refusal to debate Alsobrooks on television.<\/p>\n<p>Trone\u2019s campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/article\/maryland-us-senate-debate-canceled-david-trone\/60373579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Wednesday the debate was a waste of time because he &#8220;has already participated in or committed to more than a dozen public forums and a televised debate.&#8221; But Trone has not participated in any prior televised debate since launching his Senate campaign, and there are no other forthcoming debates scheduled before the May 14 primary. Trone\u2019s campaign did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Televised debates weren\u2019t a waste of Trone\u2019s time during his 2022 House reelection campaign. The Total Wine cofounder <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230322092508\/https:\/moco360.media\/2022\/09\/23\/format-disagreement-derails-first-scheduled-debate-in-district-6-congressional-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">railed<\/a> against his then-Republican opponent, state Delegate Neil Parrott, for having &#8220;deprived the voters of this opportunity to hear from us&#8221; after Parrot refused to participate in a September 2022 televised debate hosted by the League of Woman Voters.<\/p>\n<p>Trone has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marylandmatters.org\/2024\/01\/31\/campaign-finance-report-shows-why-trone-has-gained-ground-in-newest-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spent<\/a> $23.2 million, flooding Maryland\u2019s airwaves with ads since entering the race last year.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to Trone\u2019s campaign offered a different explanation for Trone\u2019s refusal to debate Alsobrooks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2024\/apr\/3\/maryland-senate-democratic-debate-scrapped-after-r\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">telling<\/a> the <em>Washington Times<\/em> that the congressman was too preoccupied with the collapse of Baltimore\u2019s Key Bridge and his busy House schedule to attend the April 23 debate. But the House will be in recess the day of the scrapped debate.\t<\/p>\n<p>Trone issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/david-trone-checks-his-privilege-after-mistakenly-using-racial-slur-to-attack-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apology<\/a> to the <em>Washington Post<\/em> on March 21 for uttering &#8220;jigaboo&#8221; as he conversed with Young during a House Budget Committee hearing, saying he had intended to use the word &#8220;bugaboo.&#8221; The Maryland Democrat also checked his privilege, saying he should have known better than to use such a term in any context.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It should never be used any time, anywhere, in any conversation,&#8221; Trone said. &#8220;I recognize that as a white man, I have privilege. And as an elected official, I have a responsibility for the words I use\u2014especially in the heat of the moment. Regardless of what I meant to say, I shouldn\u2019t have used that language.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. David Trone, a Democrat from Maryland, withdrew from a televised debate with his black female Senate primary rival due to backlash over his racial slur. His decision not to join the April 23 debate with Angela Alsobrooks, Prince George&#8217;s County Executive, is part of the continued fallout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":2213175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/GJhxvIFW8AArY3Y_736x514.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/GJhxvIFW8AArY3Y_736x514.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2213175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}