’10 Months and One Failed Presidential Campaign Later’: CNN Anchor and Rahm Emanuel Brutally Roast Kamala Harris
CNN’s Kasie Hunt and and ex-Obama adviser Rahm Emanuel brutally roasted former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Tuesday.
Harris returned to The View to promote her campaign memoir, 107 Days, on Tuesday, and Hunt was unimpressed by Harris’s reference to her much-maligned answer after being asked what she would have done differently than President Joe Biden last fall.
“Ten months and one failed presidential campaign later, Harris, now on book tour, offered this response when she was asked about that infamous moment,” mused Hunt before allowing Harris to explain herself:
That day and that interview for me really was symbolic of the issue, which is that I’m a loyal person, and I didn’t fully appreciate how much people wanted to know there was a difference between me and President Biden. I thought it was obvious. And I didn’t want to offer a difference in a way that would be received or suggested to be a criticism. I realize now that I didn’t fully appreciate that-, how much of an issue it was.
“‘Didn’t fully appreciate how much of an issue it was,'” repeated Hunt incredulously. “Just the entire ballgame!”
She then turned the floor over to Emanuel so he could get his licks in.
“That was not a trick question, that wasn’t a pop quiz,” remarked the former Chicago mayor. “That was the question, and not to have an answer-, And even if you wanted to say, ‘Look, there are plenty of places we disagreed, but out of both loyalty, and out of the character, I’m not gonna do that and air that publicly. It’s not the right thing to do. At least then that becomes a character thing, not the answer. But to say you didn’t appreciate that people were looking for a change, The irony is, if you look and do an autopsy of the election, Biden-Harris is eight points down. She gets the baton, she runs all the way up to three points up. That’s an 11-point swing. From that interview and the debate forward, she goes back from change to continuity, and she loses the election by a point and a half.”
“It was actually the continuity of Biden, which is the trip point,” he continued. “And to say that you don’t get it, you don’t appreciate it means you didn’t understand where the election was, or one of the major fault lines of the election was. People wanted a change and you could have been that.”
“It’s actually very straightforward, especially when you lay it out that way,” replied Hunt.
Watch above via CNN.
