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‘Americans Need to Wake Up!’ Fox & Friends Freak Out Over Kamala Harris Surge While Campaigning ‘More Like a Republican’
By Colby Hall,
12 hours ago
The Fox & Friends curvy couch was particularly vexed Tuesday morning by Vice President Kamala Harris’s large rally crowd and her campaign running “more like a Republican!”
The right-of-center morning show appeared particularly frustrated by what they see as unfair media treatment of Harris, who has not sat for an interview or taken meaningful press questions since she ostensibly became the Democratic nominee just over three weeks ago.
After running a series of headlines critical of Vice President Harris from well before President Joe Biden stepped down from the nomination, Lawrence Jones was gobsmacked by Harris’s apparent resonation with polled Americans and her rallygoers. what he claimed was a lack of messaging.
“She doesn’t even have a campaign theme,” he said to Ainsley Earhardt. “If you go on a website, there’s no issues, there’s no theme. At least [Barack] Obama had ‘Change you can believe in.’ You know, you have Bill Clinton, that had his thing. You had George W Bush , ‘compassionate conservatism.’ They had something. Well, it’s not even a theme! There’s not even a video. Why am I running? You know, every candidate doesn’t. Why am I running? I want to do this. I want to change this. There’s nothing, you know. There’s no movement!”
“You know what’s so sad?” Earhardt asked. “She says what she’s telling the voter is, ‘I don’t need to have a theme. I don’t need to have issues. I don’t need to tell you how I’m voting, people. I’m getting the crowds. People like me and I am. They’re just so grateful that Joe Biden’s not running. They’re going to vote for me no matter what.'”
“It doesn’t matter if she’s flip-flopped on everything,” she continued. “That’s why the American voter needs to wake up and look at her voting record. You have to look at these issues. What is she going to do to our country? Is she going to make our country better? Is it been better over the last three years since she’s been vice president? No.”
Earhardt then compared Kamala Harris to Bernie Sanders’ campaign in 2016, insisting that the Independent Senator from Vermont was pushing “socialism.”
“In the beginning, when we started doing it, we were shocked. Like what? This is America. We’re a republic. We’re not a socialist, Marxist country. He starts preaching this, and we’re all in shock,” Earhardt claimed before pivoting back to Harris. “She votes more progressive than he does. America needs to wake up this woman who’s getting on stage that everyone is rallying around. Do you know what she stands for?”
Steve Doocy noted that, in the context of Harris’s lack of media availabilities, her campaign is almost certainly saying that they are doing very well right now without them. Brian Kilmeade then mocked how Harris’s current policy positions (which they claimed are not known) are more in line with former President Donald Trump’s than the socialist agenda that Earhardt just laid out.
“ She’s going to be strong on the border. It’s going to crack down on crime. She’s not going to tax on tips,” Kilmeade offered. “She’s trying to be more MAGA than Donald Trump. That’s what she’s doing because that’s more popular than what she stood for and who she worked for. “
Doocy cracked, “Well, don’t be surprised if at the conclusion of the DNC next week, she says, and I’m Kamala Harris, and I want to make America great again, right?” to which Earhardt added, “All of a sudden, more of a Republican.”
While the segment was entirely designed to be critical of Kamala Harris’s changing positions, one wonders if the message to some Fox & Friends viewers was that Kamala Harris is more pragmatic and centrist than the socialist and progressive caricature that Team Trump is looking to paint her as.
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