‘It’s Cruelty!’ Joe Scarborough Slams Sarah Huckabee Sanders ‘Hateful’ Attack On Kamala Harris For Having No Biological Children
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough slammed Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders for what he deemed as. a “hateful” attack on Vice President Kamala Harris for “having no children” during an event for former President Donald Trump in Michigan on Tuesday.
Sanders, who worked as White House press secretary for the Trump administration, told the crowd that her children keep her “humble” and that “unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.” The governor was reviving a trope previously used by Trump’s running mate Senator JD Vance (R-OH).
After rolling the clip back, Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski pushed back on the remarks first: “What is their obsession with women without children of a biological connection?”
She continued, “Kamala Harris is a stepmother of two children with her husband Doug Emhoff, Cole and Ella Emhoff. They call her ‘Mamala.’ They consider her as much of a mother as their own.”
“It’s cruelty. Really,” Scarborough added.
Brzezinski said: “You know you’re turning off an entire population of people so they just don’t want those voters.”
Scarborough replied: “They are playing for a very small subset that relishes the cruelty. First of all, it’s [worth] adding Sarah Huckabee Sanders still can’t pronounce Kamala Harris’s name correctly. That’s the first thing. For the other… You want to make them the other? Continue to mispronounce their name that everybody seems to do on Fox News, when they know. It’s Kamala.”
He continued: “Why do you mispronounce her name when you know its Kamala? To make her seem like the Other? So he starts there, Kamala doesn’t have her own children. It’s so patently obvious that it’s just to be hateful. They do this to be hateful because they know the truth. They have heard Doug’s children’s mom say time and time again that they are all part of a blended family. Not everybody, I guess, is perfect, like Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Donald Trump. I guess Donald Trump and maybe J.D. Vance are perfect in this respect. A lot of us stumble through life. A lot of us have blended families. A lot of us figure out how to make blended families work.
He added: “But I’ve just got to say politically, there are a lot more people who have blended families, a lot more people who understand what Kamala Harris and Doug are doing. There are a lot more people who understand, again, blended families than people who are just self-righteous and mean and hateful.”
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