MSNBC’s tradition of rolling out self-identified Republicans to repeat the kookiest Democratic talking points continued on Friday as former GOP communications director Tara Setmayer joined Ana Cabrera Reports to claim “women voters are looking at this election as a life or death choice.”
Against the backdrop of recent comments from Donald Trump about Kamala Harris’s race, Cabrera wondered, “Do you think a debate is more or less likely after all of this?”
Setmayer claimed a debate will happen because Trump’s ego demands it, and that “I'm looking forward to Donald Trump debating Kamala Harris. I think that she will use her prosecutorial skills to destroy him on the debate stage, because if his default is just to name-call and to try to bully her, that is not going to play well.”
While Setmayer would be wise to recall those “prosecutorial skills” led her to withdraw before Iowa in the primary, she insisted that “Let's not forget that, you know, the idea of women, now we have a woman at the top of the ticket, and women voters are looking at this election as a life or death choice.”
She continued to insist that Harris is the personification of freedom, “The binary choice is democracy or Trump, and for women, it's our lives or Trump, and Kamala Harris embodies the future of this country, embodies freedom in this country now, and Donald Trump and MAGA embody regression and trying to turn things back, and by his behavior, acting like this, continuing to act like this, this only reinforces that choice, particularly for women in battleground states.”
Setmayer concluded by reiterating, “So, do I think he's going to debate her? I don't think his campaign wants her to debate him, but she -- or for him to debate her, but I don't think his ego is going to allow him to be called a coward, that he is, if he were not to do it.”
With “Republicans” like this, one wonders why MSNBC needs Democrats.
Here is a transcript for the August 2 show:
MSNBC Ana Cabrera Reports
8/2/2024
10:24 AM ET
ANA CABRERA: So, Tara, I just want to pick up on what we heard at the end of that Chuck Schumer clip. Do you think a debate is more or less likely after all of this? Tara.
TARA SETMAYER: I don't think that Donald Trump's ego, I don't think Donald Trump's ego will allow him to not debate her. This is something that he thinks that he's great at, just like he thinks he's his own best lawyer. So, I'm looking forward to Donald Trump debating Kamala Harris.
I think that she will use her prosecutorial skills to destroy him on the debate stage, because if his default is just to name-call and to try to bully her, that is not going to play well. Let's not forget that, you know, the idea of women, now we have a woman at the top of the ticket, and women voters are looking at this election as a life or death choice.
The binary choice is democracy or Trump, and for women, it's our lives or Trump, and Kamala Harris embodies the future of this country, embodies freedom in this country now, and Donald Trump and MAGA embody regression and trying to turn things back, and by his behavior, acting like this, continuing to act like this, this only reinforces that choice, particularly for women in battleground states.
So, do I think he's going to debate her? I don't think his campaign wants her to debate him, but she -- or for him to debate her, but I don't think his ego is going to allow him to be called a coward, that he is, if he were not to do it.