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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Countering the Criticisms of the Harris-Walz Campaign | The Response Room

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In the first episode of "The Response Room", Steve Schmidt takes on the role of campaign strategist for the Harris-Walz campaign and offers his advice on how to respond to criticisms and attacks from Team Trump. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the response room.

0:02.6

In this segment, I'm going to answer the attacks of the Trump campaign against the Harris campaign.

0:10.6

I'm going to give voice and say some things maybe that the campaign can't say.

0:17.8

I'll be direct.

0:19.0

I'll be clear.

0:20.2

And I'm going to be truthful.

0:24.5

There are all sorts of different types of attacks in politics. One of them, the worst type,

0:30.2

is the whining type. The, oh, they're not playing fair type. And that usually manifests itself

0:37.1

when the losing campaign starts

0:39.5

complaining about the press treatment that the winning campaign is receiving.

0:45.3

She should be doing interviews. She doesn't want to do interviews.

0:48.9

Why does she refuse to answer questions from the media?

0:51.7

She's not doing any news conference. You know why she's not doing it?

0:54.4

Because she can't do a news conference.

0:55.8

She doesn't know how to do a news conference.

0:57.3

She's not smart enough to do a news conference.

0:59.5

And again, I really can't believe she's been the presumptive nominee for 17 days.

1:03.7

And she hasn't taken a real question from reporters.

1:06.3

She won't even do interviews with friendly people because she can't do better than Biden.

1:11.2

Now, specifically here, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are complaining that Kamala Harris

1:19.2

hasn't done enough news conferences with the American press. The answer to the criticism

1:26.0

is to laugh and laugh some more and some more after that

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