Former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele said in an interview late Thursday that former President Trump’s attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris are “incoherent.”
“At a rally in North Carolina, Donald Trump showed in real time how the ground has shifted for Republicans, as he tried out some incoherent attacks on his new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, including repeatedly mispronouncing her name and trying out a recycled insult or two,” Steele said while guest-hosting MSNBC’s “The ReidOut.”
Steele highlighted a whirlwind week in politics after President Biden withdrew from the race and endorsed Harris. Since then, Harris’s campaign has broken donation records and saw an influx of support among voters online.
Steele, during his MSNBC appearance, also highlighted Biden’s speech from the Oval Office late Wednesday when the president said he knew it was time to pass the torch and put the needs of the country ahead of his own ambition to run for reelection.
Steele said Biden spoke “directly to the American people about his decision to leave the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor.”
“He did it for the love of his country,” Steele said. “Now, while President Biden put humility ahead of hubris, Donald Trump, as we all know by now, only loves himself, so he took the route of denigration and division.”
In his first rally since Biden announced he was dropping out, Trump spoke to supporters Wednesday in North Carolina, where he sharply criticized Harris. He blasted her over immigration and inflation, seeking to characterize her as a “radical-left lunatic.”
Trump said he defeated Biden but has “a new victim to defeat: Lyin’ Kamala Harris,” repeatedly mispronounced Harris’s first name and accused her of lying to the public about Biden’s fitness.
Steele highlighted a clip of Trump’s speech in which the former president said Harris is “totally against the Jewish people” and slammed her for her stance on the Israel-Hamas war and skipping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress.
“So, I would think that Kamala Harris being totally against the Jewish people would come as a bit of news to the second gentleman Doug Emhoff, who is her husband and is Jewish,” Steele noted. “But anyway, we’ll move on.”