McEnany: Harris campaign playing 'victim card' after loss
Fox News co-host Kayleigh McEnany argued that Vice President Harris’s campaign is playing the “victim card” in the aftermath of her loss to President-elect Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
While hosting Fox News’s “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Wednesday night, McEnany pushed back on the various analyses Harris’s campaign aides shared this week for why the vice president did not succeed in the election earlier this month.
McEnany showed a clip of CNN commentator and former South Carolina state Rep. Bakari Sellers (D), who criticized Harris’s campaign team members for a “lack of self-awareness” and lack of “self-reflection” when reacting to their remarks on Crooked Media’s “Pod Save America.”
“The inability to figure out a way in which you could win this race simply providing messaging and saying that we're up, where by you don't believe that in your heart of hearts to be true. I just think was disappointing," Sellers said on CNN.
During her monologue, McEnany said the “campaign is not in the mood to be lectured by Bakari Sellers. They are playing the victim card.”
She then played a clip of Quentin Fulks, Harris’s deputy campaign manager, saying on “Pod Save America” this week that Democrats scrutinize their leaders more than Republicans do Trump.
“Republicans don't make Trump apologize,” Fulks said. “And as Stephanie [Cutter] said, we don't have to mimic it. But I think that there are a lot of times where, if you're in the Democratic Party and you step out of line, yeah, you get punished for it.”
Harris addressed supporters and her donors during a call on Tuesday, during which she attempted to share some optimism in the aftermath of the general election loss.
“I just have to remind you: Don’t you ever let anybody take your power from you. You have the same power that you did before Nov. 5, and you have the same purpose that you did, and you have the same ability to engage and inspire,” Harris said during the meeting.
She thanked the donors for supporting her despite the campaign’s spending coming under scrutiny in recent weeks.
“The outcome of this election is obviously not what we wanted. It is not what we worked so hard for, but I am proud of the race we ran, and your role in this was critical,” she said.