‘This Is All Theater’: Bakari Sellers Dismisses Megyn Kelly Rallying For Trump As Not Helpful With Actual Voters
CNN contributor Bakari Sellers called former Fox News host turned podcaster Megyn Kelly joining Donald Trump on the campaign trail Monday nothing more than ineffective “theater.”
Anchor Jake Tapper kicked off the conversation, asking, “Liz Cheney is out there campaigning with Kamala Harris and I’m sure helping win over moderate conservative women who are concerned about Trump. I mean, even if it’s just one, it’s helping. Trump has not accepted Nikki Haley’s offer to campaign. Is that a mistake?”
“It’s interesting. Who is kind of working on the surrogates there, right? So he does have Tulsi Gabbard out there. He does have. You know, Megyn Kelly is now going to go out there. So when we talk about kind of who’s an effective surrogate, I think what’s interesting about this race and is how much the American people are kind of tired of being told what to think. They know where the economy is. They know where we are on immigration. And I don’t know that surrogates are really that valuable right now in these last days when they are experiencing kind of the state of the country right now,” replied Republican strategist Machalagh Carr.
“Well, you just mentioned Megyn Kelly, formerly of Fox and NBC. Now, she has a very successful YouTube channel. She said that she’s going to be appearing at a Trump rally in Pittsburgh. And you might remember, because she said this after Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden a week and a day ago,” said Tapper before playing Kelly’s comment:
You clean up the bro, talk just a little so you don’t alienate women in the middle of America who are already on the fence about Republicans. We’re trying to get him elected. We don’t need to rally the base or guys anymore.
“So I guess they’re taking her advice?” Tapper then asked Sellers.
“I guess, I don’t know. I mean, I think all of this is kind of theater. I don’t think it matters. Megyn Kelly going to wherever she will be, to Pittsburgh for Donald Trump. I am not sure she has the fortitude that you would look to for somebody who’s able to penetrate where Donald Trump necessarily needs it. And to your point, I agree with you. I don’t think surrogates matter as much,” Sellers replied, adding:
I do think, though, when you look back at it and we actually do the postmortem, I think that’s what Alex Thompson and those guys do. They do that big autopsies and post-mortems. I mean, they dig deep. One of the biggest faux pas, the mistakes of the Trump campaign was selecting JD Vance.
And when you look at the fact that he could have chosen Nikki Haley or Glenn Youngkin, this is a totally different race. I would actually venture to say this race is probably over and Donald Trump is probably the nominee because where he is losing, you have a Youngkin or a Haley. You don’t have 20 point gender gaps with those individuals. I mean, you have individuals like, JD Vance’s negatives are so high because of the way he talks about women.
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