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Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly spoke out this week to reveal what's really wrong with Vice President Kamala Harris, saying she talks to people “like they're on a short bus.”
Kelly eviscerates Harris
During Thursday's episode of her eponymous SiriusXM talk show, Kelly played a clip from Harris' appearance on “The View” earlier this week in which she said she was “very afraid” of Donald Trump's reelection.
“She thinks she's Rush Limbaugh. She's not. It's very obvious,” Kelly said in response. “She tries to explain things to people all the time, like she's talking to a two-year-old. And look, I talk to my audience about complicated things all the time, and I never assume that anyone understands something complicated. I always give a couple of lines of explanation because people live their lives and don't follow politics day and night like me. But I don't treat them like they're stupid.”
“I respect the intelligence of my audience, which they deserve because I'm speaking to my audience,” Kelly continued. “They call all the time on SiriusXM, they write on MegynKelly.com. She talks to the people listening like she thinks they're on the short bus. Forgive me, but she does.”
Kelly did not stop there, but said that she felt “offended” by the way Harris spoke.
“All I feel is insulted. He insulted my intelligence. I'm bored with you. I'm so insulted by you,” Kelly said. “The thing is, it makes me think of Oprah. So, Oprah was actually full of depth when she did this show. But back in the day when you were young in law school, when you turned on the Oprah Winfrey show, you heard something. It was her that we had our “aha moment” from.
“She'll say this little catchy phrase where you say, 'Oh, yeah, that's something to think about,' and her team will set it to music and slow down the interaction, and you'll be moved.” Kelly added. “You might think, 'Oh, I feel inspired.'” She thinks it's an opera. She thinks we'll add a little sparkling music. I'll say it this way, and even though it's completely absurd, it will move people.
Check out Kelly's full comments on this in the video below.
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This isn't the first time Kelly has publicly attacked Harris. In July last year, she called Harris a “moron” after she said she initially gave her the “benefit of the doubt.”
“I didn't think she was an idiot. Now I think she's an idiot. She's not that smart. Forgive me, I'm still one of those people who gets wooed with titles like: 'She was the attorney general of California.' You know, how much she can be.” Stupid? Like dumb. “The answer is very, very stupid,” Kelly said, according to OK! magazine. “And I came to that conclusion with my eyes and ears just by watching and listening to it. She can't put two sentences together.
“She's not a smart person, and that worries me because that's all we have on the Democratic side. And as [Donald] “Trump’s numbers keep going up and up — and I realize some polls show him beating Joe Biden right now in a hypothetical matchup — he’s still very weak,” she added. He added: “He did not win in 2020 and it seems that it will be the same match, and frankly, Joe Biden is knocking on the door of the Grim Reaper, and she could become President of the United States in the next six years by default, if that happens.” Going in a dark and disturbing way. I am worried.”
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Harris is more unpopular than ever
Millions of Americans would agree with Kelly's assessment of Harris, whose approval rating fell from 41.7 percent to 36.3 percent last year, while her disapproval increased from 51.7 percent to 53.7 percent, according to an analysis by the polling site 538. Thomas Gift, who heads the center in in American politics at University College London, told Newsweek last month that Harris's unpopularity “could end up being a difference-maker” in the 2024 presidential election.
“To realize how unpopular Kamala Harris is, you have to keep in mind the historical significance of it all,” Gift said. “No one in her position has had this low a level of preferences in a first term since Dan Quayle. That's saying something. So it's not surprising, especially with Biden's age, that Republicans continue to make a simple point: A vote for Biden is a vote for Harris.
“While it is the top of the ticket that drives the vote, and that will be true again in 2024, Harris’s unpopularity will matter at the margin,” he added. As next year's election approaches, these margins could end up being a difference maker.
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