Newt Gingrich Predicts VP Harris Will ‘Lose The Election’
Vice President Kamala Harris's recent interview with CNN anchor Dana Bash has sparked significant criticism, with former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich predicting it could have a severe impact on her campaign.
During an appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings With Maria,” guest host Cheryl Casone discussed the interview with Gingrich, who speculated that Harris might “lose the election” as a result of her performance.
“I thought President Trump was being very unfair in that comment. In fact, I think he should invite Kamala Harris to have Governor Walz with her at the presidential debate as a sort of comfort blanket. You know, that way Walz could be allowed to stand next to her; he couldn’t say anything, but she would feel so much more comfortable having him there. My real reaction was, first, that she told us how really, truly liberal she is,” Gingrich commented.
Gingrich continued, “Walz basically told us he’s a total liar. He couldn’t even admit to Dana Bash that he had lied about serving in combat. If you watched that segment, he dives off into a bunch of nonsense and can’t bring himself to say, ‘Yes, what I said was wrong.’ That’s typical of Walz’s character. As for Harris, the big takeaway from last night is she claims she was really aggressive as the attorney general in California, tackling various international gangs. But then why is there a Venezuelan gang terrorizing Aurora, Colorado?”
He added, “Under her watch as the border czar, we now have eight or nine million illegal immigrants, along with gangs from El Salvador, Mexico, and Venezuela. It doesn’t ring true. In that sense, last night showed us that Kamala Harris is on track to lose the election.”
Harris faced further criticism from CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings, who argued that Harris’s decision to bring Walz along for the interview underscored her perceived vulnerability as a candidate.
During a panel discussion on CNN with anchor Anderson Cooper, Jennings addressed the issue of Harris’s reluctance to appear for interviews or press conferences solo since becoming the Democratic Party’s presumptive 2024 nominee.
“Is the line now going to be, well, why isn’t she doing it by herself?” Cooper asked.
“Yeah, I do think people are going to bring that up,” Jennings responded, noting that while he had “great confidence” in both the network and anchor Dana Bash, he agreed that it was a poor decision for Harris to bring Walz along.
“I think it’s incredibly weak — weak sauce — to show up with your running mate. The fact that they don’t have enough confidence in her to let her, the actual top of the ticket, do a single interview on her own…” Jennings said. “I think the hand-wringing and gyrations over this in the last month show a troubling lack of confidence in her political ability. Which also makes you wonder, as a voter, what kind of president she would be if a small decision like whether to do an interview or not seems so difficult.”
Jennings concluded by saying, “So yes, I think Republicans are going to see it as pretty weak to show up with, essentially, someone to take up half the time,” referring to Walz as Harris’s “emotional support animal” in a post on X.