President Donald Trump’s landslide victory over Kamala Harris might have seemed like a good opportunity for self-reflection, but the vice president and her failed team of campaign advisers are instead busy blaming others.
Fox News Channel’s Kayleigh McEnany addressed this trend, calling out key staffers who appeared on a podcast to air their grievances about the campaign and election results.
As The Hill reported:
McEnany showed a clip of CNN commentator and former South Carolina state Rep. Bakari Sellers (D), who criticized Harris’s campaign team members for a “lack of self-awareness” and lack of “self-reflection” when reacting to their remarks on Crooked Media’s “Pod Save America.”
“The inability to figure out a way in which you could win this race simply providing messaging and saying that we’re up, where by you don’t believe that in your heart of hearts to be true. I just think was disappointing,” Sellers said on CNN.
During her monologue, McEnany said the “campaign is not in the mood to be lectured by Bakari Sellers. They are playing the victim card.”
She then played a clip of Quentin Fulks, Harris’s deputy campaign manager, saying on “Pod Save America” this week that Democrats scrutinize their leaders more than Republicans do Trump.
“Republicans don’t make Trump apologize,” Fulks said. “And as Stephanie [Cutter] said, we don’t have to mimic it. But I think that there are a lot of times where, if you’re in the Democratic Party and you step out of line, yeah, you get punished for it.”
The podcast interview received significant backlash on social media, too:
If any of you developed the capacity for shame you would never recover
— barbarism critic 🙂↔️🇵🇸✨ (@SxarletRed) November 27, 2024
“We wanted to give the impression that she was different without pointing to a specific issue”
Everyone affiliated with her campaign should never work in politics again. Jfc
— Patrick 🍉 🇵🇸 (@PatriciusAcutus) November 27, 2024
Absolutely useless. Where is the principle of running FOR something? Standing FOR something? Fighting FOR regular people?
— Natalie Holme Elsberg 🇿🇦 (@NatalieElsberg) November 27, 2024
A genuinely horse shit interview from beginning to end
— Glenny Lennox (@glennylennox) November 26, 2024
Fox News offered additional coverage the podcast and Sellers’ reaction:
“Pod Save America” host Dan Pfeiffer spoke with O’Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter in the Harris campaign’s first major interview since the vice president’s loss to Trump. Online progressives sharply criticized the questioning and the defensive posture by the guests.
The Harris aides complained about media coverage and repeatedly cited their time crunch of just over 100 days to put together a campaign, which was due to President Biden going effectively unchallenged in the Democratic primary and not dropping out until three weeks after a disastrous June debate with Trump.
CNN’s Bakari Sellers, a Harris supporter, said during an interview on the network on Wednesday that the podcast interview was “disappointing at best,” panning “their lack of self-awareness, their lack of self-reflection.”
“It was reminiscent of a Kamala Harris interview: nothing is actually said. No one answers the question. No interview push back,” Tricia McLaughlin, a Republican strategist, wrote of the Harris campaign aides’ interview.
Here’s a clip of McEnany’s monologue:
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