Speaking Thursday, August 8, during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” FNC host and former Trump Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany jokes about how to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris in the November election. She said that just getting Kamala off the teleprompter would lead to a certain victory for Trump.
McEnany’s joke stems from VP Harris’s tendency to go on rambling word salads, not to mention her characteristic cackle, when she is speaking off of a teleprompter and has to try to answer questions off the cuff. McEnany’s point was that making her do that time and time again would very much help Trump.
She said, speaking on “Jesse Watters Primetime” about that aspect of Kamala’s personality, that she is obviously trying to dodge questions for as long as possible. She said, “They began the day with Kamala’s team telling Politico Playbook we may not do an interview until Labor Day, until after Labor Day. We’re getting out just the message we want. What is the payoff to taking questions?”
Continuing, she added, “Well, the day ended with Kamala doing a gaggle, a solidified debate, and Kamala saying she may do an interview before the end of the month, which is before Labor Day. The pressure campaign is working. Keep doing it. Get this woman off the teleprompter. That is the key to winning.”
McEnany then argued that, far from doing “well,” Kamala is doing very little of note and so is very much avoiding the scrutiny that would come with trying to take positions or stake out room for accomplishments. Thus, McEnany argued, Kamala is doing far less well than left-leaning political commentators might claim.
Beginning that point, McEnanay first noted what she was hearing commentators say about Kamala and her campaign. She said, “I listen to a left-wing commentator say, ‘She’s doing so well. She’s bringing in so much money. She was thrown into our a presidential campaign, look at what she’s done.’”
Building on that, she noted that Kamala has done very little, even from an answering questions perspective, saying, “Well ask, yourself, what has she done? She stood on the stage five times, delivered the same 17 minute speech off a teleprompter five times. That is all she has done. The same words. ‘I know Donald Trump’s type.’ The same words.”
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Concluding, McEnany added that it is absurd to expect that Kamala will be able to win an election based on just an occasional speech, with a teleprompter, rather than frequent, off the cuff answers to important questions. She said, “They are counting on a 17 minute stump speech to take her to Pennsylvania Avenue, give me a break.”
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Trump, roasting Kamala on much the same grounds recently, joked that she’s not smart enough to answer questions like him. He said, “She’s not doing any news conference. Do you know why she’s not doing [it]? Because she can’t do a news conference. She doesn’t know how to do a news conference. She’s not smart enough to do a news conference.”
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