Fox News's Awful New Kamala Harris Smears Hit Nuclear Levels of Idiocy

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Ever since President Biden suspended his campaign, Fox News and right wing media have been scrambling madly for an effective attack on Vice President Kamala Harris. They’ve ridiculed her laugh. They’ve mocked her as a product of DEI. They’ve attacked her as too soft on crime and too tough on crime. All of which gets at a larger story: Kamala Harris is very hard for the right to pigeonhole. We talked to Elaina Plott Calabro, a staff writer for The Atlantic who reports trenchantly on Harris’ political career, about why the right’s contortions could prove a major dynamic in the presidential race, and how Harris’s own struggle to find her political identity could now loom large. Listen to this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:50.6	In the time that's passed since President Biden stepped down as presidential nominee,
1:56.6	Fox News and right-wing media have been searching madly for an attack line against Vice President Kamala Harris, who is now the presumptive nominee herself.
2:00.8	They've attacked her laugh, and they've attacked her as both too soft Kamala Harris, who is now the presumptive nominee herself.
2:05.9	They've attacked her laugh, and they've attacked her as both too soft on crime and too tough on crime.
2:07.4	And right-wing media has offered a barrage of weird conspiracy theories to explain the
2:11.9	Democrats move.
2:13.6	All this gets at a larger story.
2:15.5	Kamala Harris is very hard for the right to pigeonhole,
2:18.7	and this could prove a major dynamic in the presidential race. Today we're discussing this with
2:23.6	Elena Plot Calabro, a staff writer at The Atlantic, who has written a series of smart pieces
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