ABC’s Good Morning America went into full spin mode on Saturday as it portrayed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign as one that is “quickly turning personal” and appealing to the fringe while Democrats are looking to appear more “moderate.”
White House correspondent MaryAlice Parks joined the program to assert, “President Donald Trump clearly frustrated by the whiplash of this week and the fact that he will no longer face off against President Biden. His attacks against his new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, quickly turning personal.”
After further claiming Trump is “lamenting” that Biden is no longer the nominee and playing a clip of Trump, Parks added, “The former president then turning his attention to the new presumptive Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, attacking her work on the border, but also getting personal calling Harris a, quote, ‘bum.’ Then mocking her name.”
Trump is routinely called all sorts of things, but ABC draws the line at calling Harris a “bum.” However, Parks was not done, “He also claimed Harris quote 'does not like Jewish people' though her husband is Jewish and he did not mention his new running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, who has faced new scrutiny while trying to clean up old comments he made about women without children.”
There’s been a lot of fake news spread about Vance’s comments, but speaking of running mates, NPR White House correspondent and ABC News contributor Asma Khalid joined the show later on, and reported on Harris’s search:
Well, there are four names that we keep consistently hearing about, the most likely, I would say on this short list, they are all white men, moderate Democrats. Three of them are governors, that's the governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, the governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, and then a senator from Arizona, Mark Kelly. You know, Democrats are very eager to balance out the ticket and broaden their appeal to voters and that’s on race, that’s on gender, and also frankly, it’s based on attacks that they're seeing from some Republicans accusing Vice President Harris of being in their words a ‘radical liberal’ from California.
According to Khlaid, this supposed turn to the center is “a noticeable difference, I would say, from what we've seen of Trump doubling down with his pick of JD Vance.”
If Harris were to select Parks or Khlaid to be her running mate, what would be the difference?
Here is a transcript for the July 27 show:
ABC Good Morning America
7/27/2024
7:06 AM ET
WHIT JOHNSON: To politics now and Donald Trump turning his attacks on his new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, as she takes aim at Trump's choice of running mate. ABC's MaryAlice Parks is here with more. MaryAlice, good morning.
MARYALICE PARKS: Yeah, Whit, good morning. Overnight, former President Donald Trump clearly frustrated by the whiplash of this week and the fact that he will no longer face off against President Biden. His attacks against his new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, quickly turning personal.
On the campaign trail overnight former President Donald Trump lamenting that president Biden dropped out of the race, calling it a coup.
DONALD TRUMP: He's losing badly. Ready to be knocked out and they say, "well, wait, let's stop the fight and put somebody else in." It doesn't work that way.
PARKS: Trump also appearing before supporters without his ear bandaged just two weeks since that assassination attempt. The former president then turning his attention to the new presumptive Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, attacking her work on the border, but also getting personal calling Harris a, quote, “bum.” Then mocking her name.
TRUMP: They were explaining to me you can say Kamala, you can say Kamala, I said “don’t worry about it, doesn’t matter what I say, I couldn't care less if I mispronounce it or not.”
PARKS: He also claimed Harris quote “does not like Jewish people” though her husband is Jewish and he did not mention his new running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, who has faced new scrutiny while trying to clean up old comments he made about women without children.
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GIO BENITEZ: Absolutely and Asma, let's talk about the veepstakes because Kamala has not chosen her running mate. What’s the latest there?
ASMA KHALID: Well, there are four names that we keep consistently hearing about, the most likely, I would say on this short list, they are all white men, moderate Democrats. Three of them are governors, that's the governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, the governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, and then a senator from Arizona, Mark Kelly. You know, Democrats are very eager to balance out the ticket and broaden their appeal to voters and that’s on race, that’s on gender, and also frankly, it’s based on attacks that they're seeing from some Republicans accusing Vice President Harris of being in their words a “radical liberal” from California. It is a noticeable difference, I would say, from what we've seen of Trump doubling down with his pick of JD Vance.
