A CNN panel ahead of former President Donald Trump's press conference at his Bedminster golf club grew tense and combative after theGrio correspondent Natasha Alford called out a Republican strategist for both mispronouncing Vice President Kamala Harris' name, and falsely blaming a number of longstanding national policy challenges on her four years in the vice presidency.
"Trump's out here doing press conferences, and Harris is interviewing with her running mate," said GOP strategist Scott Jennings. "We need to know more about this candidacy because of the way it came about and the fact that it's never received a single vote ever in a primary."
"Donald Trump's press conferences are full of lies," said Alford. "I think it was NPR that counted 162 lies and distortions ... we've seen him unhinged, off the rails, doing personal attacks. So there's not substance there. And when we talk about the Biden/Trump debate? It's not that Joe Biden didn't have substantive answers. His style, his performance, his, delivery was poor and everybody saw that with their own eyes, and that contributed to why he is no longer running for president. But we have to show the American people that it's not just about style, it is about substance. And so what we're saying is this is an opportunity for a fair conversation. Let them both talk policy and let Americans decide."
Another GOP strategist, Kristin Davison chimed in. "But when you look at — I mean, this is the second press conference that Trump has done in two weeks. Kamala has not done an interview—"
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"It's Kah-muh-la," cut in Alford. "He wants us to say it wrong. Kah-muh-la Harris."
"You can go on about whatever lies you want to outline, we're not getting — we're getting a revised reality from the Biden/Harris administration," insisted Davison. "They want to pretend like they didn't cause the problems that we are seeing right now. Inflation, the crisis at the border, crime is skyrocketing, the fentanyl crisis. They had four years to fix it. She's been in office for four years. What has she done?"
"They didn't cause the crisis at the border," shot back Alford, to which the GOP commentators around the table erupted, and Jennings began shaking his head. "We have had a problem with immigration for multiple administrations ... this is a problem, we're not, we're not giving them complex nuanced conversations about how these problems actually play out."
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