Michael Steele Criticizes Trump's "Horror Show" Comment on Kamala Harris

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00:00of the campaign trail doing these mini town hall style events where she will go, she'll

00:05sit with someone, she'll be in conversation and she'll take questions and so she is primed

00:09and ready to kind of have a conversation, answer questions about specific policy issues.

00:15Donald Trump, he has been doing these, you know, big box and I have to use quotes when

00:19I say big box because he had his rally at the same place in Atlanta yesterday that Vice

00:22President Harris had hers.

00:23How did that turn out?

00:26Not well.

00:27He puts himself on the stage and says, I'm not happy, like there are a lot of stream

00:30of consciousness thoughts happening.

00:32He does tell you what he's thinking.

00:33He tells you right what he's thinking and I just, I think that the format that he has

00:37been taking in his engagement on the campaign trail, it has not supported the idea of debating

00:43a, you know, a seasoned debater, if you will, and that's who Vice President Harris is.

00:48He is concerned.

00:50This is what Donald Trump had to say about the Vice President, about trying to define

00:54her.

00:57So we have to work hard to define her.

00:59We, I don't want to even define her.

01:00I just want to say who she is.

01:02She's a horror show.

01:03She'll destroy our country.

01:04She doesn't want anybody saying Merry Christmas.

01:07Now she's denying it.

01:08You have a candidate who is fake, fake, fake.

01:13On the other hand, you have a president who will fight, fight, fight for America.

01:19He's just repeating what the consultant told him.

01:24That was an internal campaign conversation, the senior advisor conversation that was

01:27had with him.

01:28Sir, we have to define her.

01:29You have to stay on message.

01:30I've been there.

01:31I've been there delivering the message, not to Donald Trump, honey.

01:35He's undisciplined and frankly a bad candidate.

01:40They just don't know.

01:41They don't know how to run against Vice President Kamala Harris.

01:44They were ready, prepared and excited to run against Joe Biden.

01:47Oh, the election was over.

01:48That was their entire plan.

01:49They thought the election was over.

01:51They had everything they needed, you know, and, you know, President Biden was giving

01:54them plenty of evidence every single day to what they were saying, how they were framing

01:59him.

02:00They are having a hard time clearly framing and defining, as he was putting it, Vice President

02:05Harris.

02:06You know, last week we talked to, for Playbook, we talked to a bunch of both Republicans kind

02:11of in the apparatus, but then folks on the campaign.

02:13And they said, we are ready where, you know, the first week we were called it off guard,

02:17but now we're coming back and we have a whole different idea.

02:20We're going to talk about, you know, her as the border czar, which isn't true.

02:23We're going to talk about X, Y, and Z.

02:25But then what ended up happening is every turn, now they're back talking about her race,

02:30about her gender.

02:31It is almost impossible to get him away from that at this point.

02:34So I was just saying to Simone during the little media moves, listening to him, can

02:43we just use his words against him?

02:47I don't understand why we don't.

02:49So for example, let's just take the quote we just heard.

02:54And this is this is any of us, including Kamala Harris, if she wants to go down this road.

02:59So we have to work hard to define him.

03:02I don't want to even define him.

03:05I just want to say who he is.

03:07He's a horror show.

03:09He'll destroy our country.

03:11He doesn't want anybody saying Merry Christmas.

03:14Now he's now he's denying it.

03:16You have a candidate who is a who's fake, fake, fake.

03:20On the other hand, you have a president who will fight, fight, fight, or a vice president

03:25who will fight, fight, fight for America.

03:27This the thing about Donald Trump, and I'm curious how reporters cover this, because

03:32to be honest, y'all leave a whole lot of ish on the table, just leave too much on the table.

03:41And you take what this man says as if A, it's meaningful, B, it's it's important.

03:48And but for that title president, former president in front of his name, there is no way this

03:55iteration of Donald Trump would be a viable candidate for dog catcher, let alone president.

04:00And I just don't understand why we allow so much of what he says to seep into our culture

04:10and our politics as normal.

04:13That's not a normal quote from a human being running for president who cannot string a

04:19competent, coherent sentence together talking about someone else who is his political opponent.

04:25And we in the press and the media and others look at this as this sort of dogfight, this

04:32who's ahead, who's behind rat race, as opposed to what this actually says about how we have

04:39fallen as a country to allow that crap every day on our air.

04:44But that's just me.

04:45What do I know?

04:46I'm just sitting here trying to have some coffee.

04:49Just hanging out.

04:50I mean, the question of whether or not what this tells us about the country, that's why

04:54we come to people like y'all, right?

04:56People who have worked in politics before, people who are free to share their opinions.

05:01I don't think, you know, reporters, the country is not confused about who Donald Trump is.

05:06They weren't confused about who Joe Biden was.

05:09And that's why people didn't want this race, the race between the two of them.

05:12And so what we-

05:13But of the two of them, why did Joe Biden have to go?

05:16But anyway-

05:17Well, I mean, I understand.

05:18Well, because of people pushing him out, honey, but we discussed that.

05:21I would just say this to Michael's point, though, that I do share your frustration about

05:24Donald Trump.

05:25Like he is not a worthy opponent to Vice President Harris, wasn't a worthy opponent, in my opinion,

05:32to Donald Trump.

05:33Yet the polls were close, I continue to say, and they will continue to be close, because

05:37there are people in this country that want what Donald Trump is selling.

05:39That's true.

05:40There are folks that are just fine with the incoherent sentences to an extent, but I think

05:45playing his sound and us dictating what he just, you know, going back over it, is important

05:50because I think sometimes people think we're making it up, that Donald Trump, oh, he didn't

05:54say that, but y'all are being dramatic.

05:56He didn't mean it like that.

05:57No, he is saying these things, and y'all need to take him and his slurred words for face

06:02value, honey.

06:03Take it slurry, first thing in the morning.

06:06Eugene, stick around.

06:09Next Vice President Harris is close to giving a rose to her running mate.

06:13I love that imagery.

06:15And later in the hour, March for Our Lives co-founder David Hogg.

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