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A Republican strategist unloaded on her party Tuesday evening and accused GOP candidates of failing to speak truth on women's health care.
CNN anchor Erin Burnett played a clip of Sen. J.D. Vance attacking "childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices they've made" during an interview with Tucker Carlson, followed by former President Donald Trump's declaration, "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!" after the artist endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris and attached a photo of herself with her cat.
After playing the infamous Access Hollywood tape — in which Trump was recorded saying that when "you're a star" you can do anything, including "grab [women] by the p----" — Burnett questioned why attacking or insulting women is "smart politics for the GOP."
When Burnett asked her panelists to react to a clip of Trump telling women, "I will be your protector," Democratic political commentator Kate Bedingfield called the comments "patronizing" and "a little creepy."
"He does not seem to understand and the Republican Party across the board doesn't seem to understand why they have a problem with women," she said.
Bedingfield, who previously served as the White House communications director during the Biden administration, said Trump and his running mate "talk about women like they don't know any women."
"They talk about women like women are this 'other' like this foreign object. They don't talk about women like they're human! And you constantly hear them degrading women. Suggesting that women over the age of 50 don't have any stake in some of these policy positions. They don't seem to understand that the policies they're putting forward take freedoms away from women."
In a rare moment of bipartisan agreement, Republican strategist Erin Perrine, who served as principal deputy communications director for Trump, agreed with Bedingfield.
"It's a bit of a head-scratcher that this is the line of attack that Donald Trump and Bernie Moreno are taking," she said.
She said that Republicans are "losing" anytime they aren't talking about immigration and the economy.
Since the Dobbs decision, she said Republicans have "struggled" to give the "easy answer" to women's health care.
"If a woman is having a miscarriage and bleeding out, that's not a question," she said, emphatically. "That shouldn't be a question in the 21st century and it should not be a question for the Republican Party. And the fact that we have people running for office in the Republican Party who can't state the obvious truth about access to health care when a woman needs her life saved boggles my mind. And I'm getting a little animated here because it actually flabergasts me that Republicans can't speak the truth on this."
