Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney caught blowback on social media for invoking what many believe are racist tropes by describing the Democratic presidential nominee as a "DEI hire," in addition to being "uninformed and lazy" during a Fox News interview Friday. In an interview with host Larry Kudlow, Tenney, of New York, ridiculed Harris' “cackle” and “horrible record,” and laid into President Joe Biden for picking Harris as “basically a diversity, equity and inclusion hire.
” “He wanted to hire a black woman,” Tenney said. “But I think Trump needs to be careful here because I think we need to really focus on her record.” Read also: Trump-loving New York Republican spent thousands in campaign cash on her own companies: report GOP leaders have begged members to shy away from racist and sexist attacks on Harris, but that didn’t deter Tenney from continuing her thinly veiled rebuke.
“The bottom line to me, Larry, is she's uniformed and lazy,” Tenney said. “I think the best attack at her is going to go at her on substance, because she doesn’t have any. You scratch the surface with her, you get more surface.
” On social media, users ripped into Tenney for the insult. “They’re not even using dog whistles anymore. This is just blatant racism,” wrote @HereLiesBlueDog.
“Racism doesn't sell with the majority of voters. They are going to find that out,” wrote @A_tothe_Z_Amber. “It's amazing to think that racists were slightly more OK with a liberal president just because he was a white guy named Joe,” wrote @sirDukeDevin .
“And this is part of the reason why Republicans are going to get crushed. They can’t help themselves. The racism and misogyny is hard for them to control,” wrote @yonathanseleshi.
Watch the clip below or at this link . Moments after describing Kamala Harris as a DEI hire, GOP Rep. Claudia Tenney adds that she's "uninformed and lazy" pic.
twitter.com/8WexmZy5wp — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 26, 2024 Donald Trump cast himself in a poor light this week by backpedaling on his debate agreement , as experts said it made the "big, bad tribesman" look "weak." “ABC, the home of George Slopadopolus, is not worthy of holding a Debate, of which I hope there will be many!” Trump posted on Truth Social , using a demeaning name for newsman George Stephanopoulos.
Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, longtime Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher said the move makes Trump look bad. Read also: Trump vs. Harris will seem compressed.
But it’s the norm elsewhere. In a previous segment, he noted Kamala Harris is "the most famous unknown person." The first several days of her new campaign have been about defining herself to America , and Republicans have failed in their first week.
Belcher explained that one of Trump's biggest fears is " looking weak " and running away from Harris, and the debate is making it worse. "Right now, he looks weak," the pollster said. "He particularly looks weak — like he's running from a woman, which is something -- you know, the big bad tribesman never wants to do.
I think he's in a really awkward position. At the same time, he knows, in fact, if he has a debate with her, the prosecutor, she's going to prosecute the case effectively against him." It puts Trump in a no-win situation, Belcher said.
"It looks weak on his part for him to be running away from the debate, and she is doing the absolute right thing," he closed. "The campaign is doing the right thing, not letting him get away with it. Calling him out, because the last thing he wants to do is seem weak.
Right now, he seems weak." The Rev. Al Sharpton also joined the conversation, saying that comparing Harris' resume with that of Trump or his running mate, Sen.
J.D. Vance (R-OH), "it's almost a joke to try to compare the two.
" See the comments in the video below or at the link here . 'He looks weak': Pollster says of Trump 'running' from debate with Kamala Harris youtu.be CONTINUE READING Show less I’m feeling a feeling unusual; It isn’t my usual mope.
It’s a curious, happy-type feeling; The feeling I’m feeling is hope! It’s because of events quite momentous. It’s about whom we may now elect. There’s a shift in our sense of the future.
It must be the Kamala Effect. At the moment Joe passed the baton, She was ready to enter the race. In fact, she seems more than just ready.
She’s setting a vigorous pace. She seems filled with energy contagious, Prompting thousands of new volunteers. The money floods in in the millions.
Her crowds are erupting in cheers. Can it be that she’ll be the difference? Can she o’ercome the lead of the Don? Will this country remain a Republic? On Harris a lot’s riding on. So far we’re a party united.
Our differences quenched for a time. Let’s just get out the vote, make some his’try. Help Harris to victory climb! Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl is the former deputy inspector general for inspections at the Central Intelligence Agency and co-author of “ The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze .
” CONTINUE READING Show less Former President Donald Trump plans to hold a rally in the name of Corey Comperatore, the firefighter fatally shot during the assassination attempt against Trump at his Pennsylvania rally earlier this month. "I WILL BE GOING BACK TO BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, FOR A BIG AND BEAUTIFUL RALLY, HONORING THE SOUL OF OUR BELOVED FIREFIGHTING HERO, COREY, AND THOSE BRAVE PATRIOTS INJURED TWO WEEKS AGO," Trump wrote on Truth Social . "WHAT A DAY IT WILL BE — FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS.
" Comperatore's family said that he dived on top of his wife and two daughters to protect them when the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, who was also killed in the attack, opened fire on the former president. Trump himself escaped with just minor injuries to his ear. Read also: The strange reason Trump showed off misspelled jacket for firefighter killed at rally His family refused to take a condolence call from President Joe Biden, in honor of Comperatore's commitment to Trump.
"He would not have wanted me to talk to him," his wife told reporters. She added: "I don’t have any ill will towards Joe Biden." Trump himself ultimately did not attend Comperatore's funeral, with officials citing security concerns.
He did, however, show off Comperatore's firefighting uniform at his nominating convention in his honor. No motive is still officially known for the attack, although the few details that are known appear to suggest that Crooks himself came from a heavily Republican background and his motivation for the killing was not partisan politics, as he also apparently researched how he might plan an attack on Biden as well. All of this comes as Trump's campaign tries to regain its footing after Biden's exit from the race and Vice President Kamala Harris takes over as the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.
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