I’m not sure if Chris Cuomo means what he says, seeing as how he spent quite a bit of his career displaying a keen case of TDS on CNN, but I can’t help but give him credit for his latest rant where here pointed out just how ridiculous Democrats are being in terms of trying to sell Kamala Harris as a viable candidate.
Once it was announced that Harris had successfully staged a coup and pushed Joe Biden out, her approval rating shot up and ever since, the left has been singing her praises as the candidate above all candidates that have ever been and ever will be. I can imagine that from a Democrat’s perspective who has two brain cells to rub together that this is pretty embarrassing. Harris experienced a bout of popularity during the 2020 primary, but quickly became so unpopular thanks to Tulsi Gabbard that she was the first big name to drop out.
She only became VP after leftist groups came out and said they’d work against Biden if his pick wasn’t a woman of color, and so the unpopular primary loser became Biden’s VP. Fast-forward, and now the unpopular candidate who became VP is now an unpopular candidate again.
This wasn’t lost on Chris Cuomo, who voiced his annoyance at the left for pretending she’s not while on his show, “The Chris Cuomo Project.”
“Kamala Harris is not a godsend, alright?” Cuomo said, addressing the left. “You people didn’t even like her six months ago. Now, all of a sudden, she’s black female Jesus, the way Obama was black Jesus.”
“And let me tell you something: he had a lot more going for him than Kamala Harris does,” Cuomo continued. “And not just as firsts go, but his type of campaigning, his type of persuasion, his charisma, okay? He was imbued with things that she is not, and I don’t mean that as a criticism, it’s just a point of comparison.”
“And her process f****d her also,” Cuomo added. “There’s a convenience in it, but it f*****d her also because there are a lot of misgivings about her. There is an underlying feeling that she didn’t get this the right way. She may not have won a primary, she didn’t even make it to the first round of primaries when she did run. And that is both fair and unfair at the same time.”
It’s at this point that Cuomo might have said something that many on the left would consider unforgivable.
“But look, this idea of, ‘Don’t say anything bad about her because Trump,’ I don’t buy that. I don’t buy that, and it’s not how you get to a better place,” said Cuomo. “It’s a relative assessment. She has negatives, so does he. Does he have more? Yeah. He also has a way more intense following. That’s why this race is so tight. Now, explain that to me, unless you want to write off half this country as bigots. How do you explain it being so tight? Maybe you’re not as right about everything as you think you are. Maybe you should be a little bit more open to the people that you disagree with. Maybe they’re not all racists.”
Chris Cuomo: “Harris is not a godsend, alright? You people didn’t even like her six months ago. Now, all of a sudden, she’s black female Jesus, the way Obama was black Jesus. And let me tell you something: he had a lot more going for him than Kamala Harris does.”@DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/vhlC26smr6
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) October 22, 2024
Regardless of his true motivations or your personal feelings about him, this is a bold thing to say from someone whose audience leans left. Or perhaps Cuomo can see the landscape like many others can.
Harris isn’t popular, she’s just not Trump. That’s the only thing going for her right now. While that might have been a powerful motivator for Democrats in 2020, that line of reasoning has lost its luster after years of economic decline and rising crime.
Moreover, Harris is clearly a woman without a plan or the gumption to execute it. She looks unsteady, sounds incomprehensible, and is clearly not ready for the job, and likely never will be. Democrats can pretend she’s great all they want, but pretending at this point is going to be a hard sell to people living in a difficult reality.
