Maggie Haberman Calls BS On Trump Over Major Anti-Kamala Harris Attack: ‘She Actually Did Get Votes’

New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins that a key ex-President Donald Trump attack against Vice President Kamala Harris is groundless.

Trump has bitterly complained about the VP replacing President Joe Biden atop the ticket, even calling it a “coup” and claiming she didn’t get a single vote in the primaries.

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins asked Haberman about Trump’s attacks on Harris’s legitimacy, and Haberman pointed out that Harris actually was on the primary ballot — albeit as VP:

COLLINS: This is something he comes back to a lot, is he’s like aggrieved for Joe Biden. It’s probably the only time he and Joe Biden maybe have had, like, a Venn diagram of agreement.

But I do think there is a concern of if he is moved on, to that, he’s facing Harris in this race. Not Joe Biden anymore.

MAGGIE HABERMAN: Yes. Jonathan Swan, and I, wrote about this, this weekend. It’s like he’s trying to will this into existence, as if he’s trying to get Joe Biden back in the race, and try to run the race that he wants it to be.

And we have seen him do this before, when things have not worked out the way he wants them to. This is what he did during COVID, in 2020, when he would repeatedly talk about how great the economy it was, how great it was, how great it was, how unfair this all is.

OK. Well, but now you have a different future in front of you, and you have to deal with that. And they are wasting time. He is wasting time, I should say. I think his team clearly has more of a sense of how it wants to run against Harris. He seems to be all over the place, and wants to attack her personally, as we got to see it, what was built as an economic speech, earlier today.

COLLINS: Well, and he also said that by putting her at the top of the ticket, that it has defrauded the public, that she’s defrauding the public by doing that.

When you hear that, though, I know everyone tries to separate out what Trump means, and what he actually intends to do, but I do think it raises the question of, if he intends to say this was an unfair election, if he loses, because it was someone different at the top of the ticket.

HABERMAN: He’s already saying a ton of things that suggest to me that he is seeding the groundwork for saying if he loses, that these are the various reasons why. Whether it is because there was a change in the top of the ticket.

And he keeps saying, they broke the rules, they broke the rules. There were no rules for this. This was a totally new situation. Now, she was on the ticket with Joe Biden. So, she actually did get votes. She just didn’t get votes as the presidential nominee. But he is going to blame that.

He is going to blame the legal cases against him. Remember, he’s getting sentenced, next month, or scheduled to, in New York. We’re already seeing him talk about that.

So, yes, I think, he is working the soil. And we have seen him do this before, again, man of few moves, to say, these are all the reasons why I lost, if he did.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.

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