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Fox News host Jesse Watters believes that former President Obama and former Speaker of the House, California Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, have “unleashed a wrecking ball” on their own party with Vice President Kamala Harris.
“The reason Kamala is the nominee is because Biden was a failure. Why can’t Kamala say ‘I learned from the mistakes he made’? Catch and release was a bad idea. Printing a gazillion dollars, I wouldn’t do that again. Instead, she just squirms and argues like a lawyer without a point,” the host said.
“Grow up. Accept the past and move forward. Instead, she just lies to us. Harris has tried to rewrite history in an implausible way to boot. But that Kamala Harris is some sort of Glock-carrying conservative who idealized John McCain and admired the statesmanship of Dick Cheney is laughable. It is insulting to those involved,” he said.
“She is alienating the left and playing the rest of us for fools. Harris appears to be in the process of defeating herself. Nancy and Barack have unleashed a wrecking ball. Biden at least was still kind of holding the coalition together. Kamala is poisoning it. She has lost unions, black men (and) Hispanics. You don’t easily put back political coalitions once they have been shattered,” the host said.
“She is not just losing voters. They are being scooped up by the opposing party. These coalitions take decades to build. If Kamala loses, this coup will have done long-lasting damage to the Democratic Party. It has destroyed their coalition and their credibility at the same time. And it is burning through billions of dollars. Writer Tom Klingenstein puts it this way: ‘The Democratic Party is the destructive party and Kamala is the destructive leader’ … ‘This election is between one candidate who wants to destroy our country and the other who wants to save it.’ Look how much damage Biden-Harris did in just four years. She has already promised she wouldn’t change a thing. This country would not survive,” he said.
And former President Obama did his own damage with black, male voters in a recent speech where he scolded those who do not want to vote for the vice president.
Hours before his first campaign rally for the Democratic nominee, Obama made an unplanned visit to a Harris campaign field office in Pittsburgh. There, he stated his intention to “speak some truths” and specifically address Black men, delivering his most direct comments yet regarding their reluctance to support Harris to date, the Washington Post reported.
“My understanding, based on reports I’m getting from campaigns and communities, is that we have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running,” Obama said, adding that it “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.”
Obama questioned why voters, especially Black voters, remain undecided about supporting Harris or the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, the Post noted further.
“On the one hand, you have somebody who grew up like you, knows you, went to college with you, understands the struggles and pain and joy that comes from those experiences,” Obama said, recounting a list of Harris’s flip-flop policy proposals. In Trump, he falsely claimed, “you have someone who has consistently shown disregard, not just for the communities, but for you as a person … And you are thinking about sitting out?”
The former president then discussed what he believed was causing black men’s lukewarm support for Harris, suggesting that some were uncomfortable with the idea of electing the first female president, the Post noted.
“And you’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses. I’ve got a problem with that,” he said. “Because part of it makes me think — and I’m speaking to men directly — part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”
