ABC News was back at it again on Friday, trotting out the liberal ladies of The View to gaslight Americans into believing that Vice President Kamala Harris – picked to be the liberal offset to supposedly moderate President Biden – was somehow now a “centrist.” They also suggested the only reason Harris embarrassingly dropped out of the 2020 race long before Iowa was because the Democrats hated the police and prosecutors like her after the death of George Floyd.
Staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) whined that “Republicans are trying to frame her as this deep-leftist.” And despite the existence of far-left, progressive prosecutors and attorneys general like Alvin Bragg in New York and George Gascon in California, Hostin insanely suggested it was impossible for folks that high in the legal field to be “leftist”:
She's a former prosecutor. She's not only a former prosecutor, she was the AG of the largest department of justice in the country other than the real Department of Justice. Prosecutors are not really leftist. They put people in jail for a living, okay? They're pretty moderate. I know Kamala – I know the Vice President personally. She is not -- she's moderate and I was talking to Alyssa about that. And then they want to attack her on her record.
One of The View’s faux conservatives, Alyssa Farah Griffin backed her up, suggesting “that, in 2020, she ran in a moment where she ran to the left,” but “She's not doing that now. This is a centrist-Democratic message that she’s pushing.”
When asked by moderator Joy Behar to explain how Harris had run to the left (at first not understanding what the phrase even meant), Farah Griffin downplayed Harris’s anti-cop rhetoric:
She put out a statement saying she wanted to bail out people who were protesting in streets. So, people took that a certain way. They felt like she was running to the left and I think that’s why she didn't resonate in that primary and someone like Biden won.
But, as CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck reported on Friday, “Vice President Kamala Harris voiced support for ‘defund the police’ in a radio interview in June 2020 amidst nationwide protests for police reform, just months before denouncing the movement after she had joined the Biden presidential campaign.”
Hostin came to Harris’s defense again by suggesting that she was finally being her authentic self. “She's leaning into who she really is,” she argued, tacitly admitting Harris was inauthentic this whole time.
She then pivoted to complaining about how the George Floyd riots had hurt Harris’s chances in 2020:
If you really want to talk about it, after George Floyd, people were angry about law enforcement. People were upset with prosecutors. They were upset with police officers. They were upset with policing in this country. So, to run as a law-and-order candidate in 2020 would have been a bad move…And what she's doing now is who she really is and I think that's why it's resonating.
But that’s not true. Floyd died on May 25, 2020. Harris dropped out of the race on December 3, 2019. The Iowa caucuses weren’t until February 3, 2020.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
July 26, 2024
11:07:28 a.m. Eastern(…)
SUNNY HOSTIN: You know, people are sort of -- I think the Republicans are trying to frame her as this deep-leftist. She's a former prosecutor. She's not only a former prosecutor, she was the AG of the largest department of justice in the country other than the real Department of Justice. Prosecutors are not really leftist. They put people in jail for a living, okay? They're pretty moderate. I know Kamala – I know the Vice President personally. She is not -- she's moderate and I was talking to Alyssa about that. And then they want to attack her on her record. She is one of the most competent
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Can I respond to that? Or do you want me –
HOSTIN: Yes.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I think the point is that in 2020 she ran in a moment where she ran to the left. And if she had run the campaign –
JOY BEHAR: Meaning what?
SARA HAINES: Meaning left on policy.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Meaning focusing on –
BEHAR: Like what? Give me an example.
FARAH GRIFFIN: So, one example, this is the moment of George Floyd, the country is torn apart and she put out --
HOSTIN: Well, she couldn't be the prosecutor then. She couldn’t be hard on crime then.
FARAH GRIFFIN: She put out a statement saying she wanted to bail out people who were protesting in streets. So, people took that a certain way. They felt like she was running to the left and I think that’s why she didn't resonate in that primary and someone like Biden won.
She's not doing that now. This is a centrist-Democratic message that she’s pushing.
HOSTIN: She's leaning into who she really is. If you really want to talk about it, after George Floyd, people were angry about law enforcement. People were upset with prosecutors. They were upset with police officers. They were upset with policing in this country. So, to run as a law-and-order candidate in 2020 would have been a bad move.
HAINES: Her party picked on her for that during the primary.
HOSTIN: Yeah. And what she's doing now is who she really is and I think that's why it's resonating.
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