NewsNation host Chris Cuomo on Thursday advised Vice President Kamala Harris against being “mean” if she wants to defeat former President Donald Trump in the upcoming election.
Willie Brown, former San Francisco mayor and Harris’ ex-boyfriend, in an interview published Wednesday, expressed concern that the vice president might be unlikeable and contracting “Hillary Syndrome,” a reference to former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s unpopularity. Cuomo on his podcast suggested five things Harris must do to defeat the former president, the second of which was not to “be Trump.” (RELATED: Kamala Harris Fails To Sit For Interview During First Week Of Presidential Campaign)
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‘She’ll Be Seen As A B*tch’: Chris Cuomo Warns Kamala Harris Not To Be ‘Mean’ If She Wants To Beat Trump pic.twitter.com/2aii2f4fmr
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“Don’t be mean. Don’t respond in kind. Now, women have to develop this talent anyway in public life and often in private life,” Cuomo said. “You don’t get to play by the same rules that men do. It’s not a fair standard. She gives Trump what he gives her, she’ll be seen as a bitch. People won’t say it out loud, but that’s what they’ll be thinking, especially as a brown woman. There’s a lot of animus, a lot of prejudice, there’s a lot of bias … explicit and also implicit.”
Cuomo also told Harris not to “be Trump” in terms of “slogans,” particularly telling her to cease her often-used line about being “unburdened by what has been.”
“You have to be careful about slogans. Whatever her ‘focused on the future, unburdened by the past, focused on the future, unburdened by the past, focused on the future’ — whatever that thing is that she says three times every time she says it, got to stop,” he said. “Why? That’s a positive thing. It’s still a cheap, hackneyed play and voters who want to reject Trump don’t want a lefty facsimile of him … someone who’s playing the same games of messaging, who’s one inch deep. They don’t want it. Don’t be that.”
Cuomo in June suggested Harris was a liability to the president’s reelection bid, as voters might be reluctant to support Biden due to concerns about the vice president potentially stepping into the presidency if Biden were to be reelected and unable to complete his term.
“Isn’t she the Achilles’ heel other than Biden’s perceived health, that people are going to say, ‘What, Harris? She’s why I won’t vote for Biden. I don’t want her as president?’” he asked Democratic strategist James Carville.
Carville on Thursday urged Harris to tell the “progressive left” to “go fuck themselves” because they doom campaigns.
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