Immediately following Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech to round out Night Four of the Democratic National Convention, CNN host Jake tapper beclowned him again by essentially proclaiming it the best speech delivered by anyone in all time. He was then followed up by CNN host Abby Phillip who ridiculously claimed Harris was “misunderstood politically” and was really just a pragmatic centrist.
Recounting the speech their viewers had just witnessed, Tapper gushed as he paraphrased what she said:
She talked about representing the people. Kamala Harris for the people, in her time as a prosecutor. She discussed how she would be a president for everyone. And wanting to form an opportunity economy to build and strengthen the middle class.
It was a speech of progressive politics and unifying rhetoric. A speech with many, many shots across the bow of Donald Trump, her opponent. And a speech in which she sought to portray herself as a credible commander-in-chief, patriotic, firm, confident, and credible. She discussed Israel and Palestine. She discussed Ukraine. She discussed the threat from Iran.
He wound down his comments by calling it “a remarkable address, one that I've never seen her give quite like this before.”
CNNs' Abby Phillip claims Kamala has "been very misunderstood politically" and that she was forced to "run to the left" in 2020.
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She insists Kamala has "processive beliefs but is not and ideologue." pic.twitter.com/4LTo7bIOB1
Then came his downright laughable assertion of how well it stood up against other speeches: “A very, very powerful speech. You gotta go back, I think, to Barack Obama in 2008 for a Democratic speech like this, perhaps even a speech like this at all.”
The clownish takes continued with Phillip proclaiming Harris had “been very misunderstood politically for quite some time.” She lamented that Harris was supposedly forced “to run to the left” in her failed 2020 jab at being president.
Phillip went on to cite unnamed people she had supposedly talked to (seemingly other journalists) who gushed about how “pragmatic” and non-ideological Harris supposedly was:
But when I covered her then, I talked to a lot of people who covered her in her Senate race and in the years before she even became a politician in the true sense. They view her in a very different way, as a pretty pragmatic person. As somebody who has progressive beliefs but is not an ideologue.
And this part of her speech really struck out to me. She said she would be a president who is realistic, practical, and has common sense. And I think that if there is anything in this speech that she wanted to convey, that would cut against the narrative that is being written about her by Republicans, is that she in the – she is interested in solving problems.
“She is interested in not just doing what the left or the right says you should be on, in terms of the ideological sides, but what she thinks is the right thing to do,” she added.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
CNN Democratic National Convention: Night 4
August 22, 2024
11:14:05 p.m. Eastern(…)
JAKE TAPPER: She talked about representing the people. Kamala Harris for the people, in her time as a prosecutor. She discussed how she would be a president for everyone. And wanting to form an opportunity economy to build and strengthen the middle class.
It was a speech of progressive politics and unifying rhetoric. A speech with many, many shots across the bow of Donald Trump, her opponent. And a speech in which she sought to portray herself as a credible commander-in-chief, patriotic, firm, confident, and credible. She discussed Israel and Palestine. She discussed Ukraine. She discussed the threat from Iran.
It was a remarkable address, one that I've never seen her give quite like this before. A very, very powerful speech. You gotta go back, I think, to Barack Obama in 2008 for a Democratic speech like this, perhaps even a speech like this at all.
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ABBY PHILLIP: And I do think she's been very misunderstood politically for quite some time. In the primary in 2020, she had to run to the left. But when I covered her then, I talked to a lot of people who covered her in her Senate race and in the years before she even became a politician in the true sense. They view her in a very different way, as a pretty pragmatic person. As somebody who has progressive beliefs but is not an ideologue.
And this part of her speech really struck out to me. She said she would be a president who is realistic, practical, and has common sense. And I think that if there is anything in this speech that she wanted to convey, that would cut against the narrative that is being written about her by Republicans, is that she in the – she is interested in solving problems. She is interested in not just doing what the left or the right says you should be on, in terms of the ideological sides, but what she thinks is the right thing to do.
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