Democratic strategist Aisha Mills burst into laughter at former Rep. Scott Taylor’s (R-VA) criticism of Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, before describing his remarks as “comical and a joke.”
Reacting to Harris’ lead in the polls on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront, Taylor said, “I think it will fade.”
He explained:
It has been consistent for about two, three weeks because she’s had a tremendous amount of positive press. Of course, she hasn’t sat down and talked to you and talked about policies or anything like that. So I think that if this was over months and months and months and there was momentum or it was consistent there, yes, I would be a little bit concerned.
But here’s the reality. I mean, I lost election, I was up by seven, eight points one week before the election. We have a long way to go and I don’t think that these polls in August are indicative of what’s going to happen in November.
Taylor went on to recall the time he watched Harris speak at the NAACP’s National Convention in Baltimore.
“In 2018, I was invited to the National NAACP Convention in Baltimore, and at the time it was right before she launched the presidential campaign and all the rumors were this is the next female Obama,” he said. “In that audience, mostly– I mean, all African-American audience, mostly women, politically in tune, it was horrible. She didn’t connect with that audience, it fell very flat. I went back to my staff that night and said, ‘She’s going nowhere in this presidential race. There’s no way.'”
As Mills burst into laughter, Taylor continued, “In my opinion, the more the American people, and certainly the independents which are crucial as you said, the more they see her in her own words, in her own videos, the more I think that they will dislike her, and I think that that momentum will come to a screeching halt.”
Mills laughed again before responding, “This is just comical and a joke that so many Republican operatives at this point are dragging themselves out claiming to have been watching Kamala Harris for years and wanting to meet her and see what she’s up to, and she wasn’t up to anything back then.”
She continued, “The momentum is absolutely on the Democrat side and here’s why. It’s because even when we get to those really hard conversations – some will be difficult – about policy, where all Democrats may not even agree on the policy agenda of this administration, and certainly Republicans might not. The big idea here, though, is that we share the same values of who we want to be as a nation, even if we don’t agree on every single detail.”
Mills argued that disagreements over policy within the Democratic Party would not “cause her to lose support,” and instead would remind Democrats and Americans that “we are bigger than the sum of our parts.”
She concluded, “So I don’t see this slowing down at all. I think that this energy, certainly for the next 83 days, is not going to dissipate, and that’s why the other side is struggling with what your strategy is going to be.”
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