Flustered GOP strategist drips sarcasm as he loses cool over gushing Harris coverage
A GOP strategist unleashed an attack on Kamala Harris that was dripping in sarcasm Thursday after losing his cool over positive media coverage of the Democratic Party’s presumed presidential candidate.
Doug Heye was on CNN as the vice president finished a rally speech in Houston.
As his co-guest, Democratic Party strategist Maria Cordona, finished praising the candidate’s performance, Heye got flustered.
Raising his voice, he said, “Everything we heard is 'Oh my god, Kamala Harris is the greatest thing ever. She's the greatest cook that we've ever had near the Oval Office. She knows more about wine than anybody other than maybe Thomas Jefferson. Everything she does is amazing.'
“So we should just cancel the election because clearly she's going to win by 25 points?”
He then tried to bring the CNN panel back from what he saw as rose-colored adoration.
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“The reality is, i'm not going to get in Donald Trump's head, don't want to be there, don't know what's in there. But he sees the same polling that we do," he said.
“Kamala Harris is marginally less unpopular than Joe Biden. She's not winning in the polls. Maybe that changes in a week or two, or six or eight, but at this point, Donald Trump is still winning despite this barrage of nothing but positive press for Kamala Harris and has been marinated in the public's mind.”
Cardona had set him off by suggesting that Trump was “going through a mental meltdown” because of his opponent's popularity.
“Not just that she is incredibly accomplished as DA, AG, senator, VP,” she said, “but the fact that she is also very attractive. I mean, I have to say it.
“...In addition to that, she's not only a woman, she's a woman of African American Asian descent, daughter of immigrants, Jamaican descent.
I mean, it's it's this sort of cauldron of all of the things that Trump has nightmares about every single night.”