‘Open Your Ears!’ Chris Christie Battles View Hosts Over Kamala Harris’s Campaign Message
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie sparred with some of the hosts of The View as he delivered them a not particularly rosy view of Vice President Kamala Harris’s performance as of late on the campaign trail.
Christie argued on Friday’s The View that Harris has had a “bad 10 days” and campaign messaging about former President Donald Trump being “awful” and a “fascist” is a waste of time. Everyone has already made up their minds about Trump, Christie told the hosts, and Harris has been too focused on the former president. Harris, he said, should be more focused on selling herself because most voters don’t know enough about her.
“But she’s been putting out her policy ideas. He has the concept of a plan. Don’t they hear that?” Joy Behar asked.
“Obviously I think some do, and I think her job is to say now what is her presidency really going to be? The other night on CNN —” Christie said before another host jumped in.
Sunny Hostin noted voters could find a detailed plan regarding Harris’s term on her website.
“Yes, but most people aren’t going to go look at that site, you know that,” Christie countered.
“I looked at it,” Hostin said.
“Well, you’re not most people,” Christie said.
Ana Navarro got particularly frustrated with Christie’s view on Harris’s campaign just days before the election. She argued he and others are holding her to a much higher “standard” than her Republican opponent.
“We are holding her to this high standard of her closing message needs to be this and this and this and that. His closing message is Arnold Palmer’s package, dancing for 39 minutes like a wacko, making fries at McDonald’s, so why don’t you tell him something? Why don’t we talk about his closing message? What do you think about that?” Navarro said.
“What I think about that is he is who he’s always been, and he’s not going to gain any voters in these last 10 days,” Christie responded.
“That’s the point! You don’t want to talk about his message. You’re spending all this time criticizing Kamala!” Navarro shot back.
“I’m not criticizing,” Christie said.
“Sounds like a criticism to me!” Navarro said.
“Well, then, you got to open your ears. What I’m saying are suggestions on how I think she can close the deal. That’s the difference,” Christie fired back.
The former governor went on to also dismiss Navarro pointing to Ret. Marine Gen. John Kelly’s claim that Trump told him Adolf Hitler “did some good things” as something that will swing voters. Christie argued fact checks and stories related to Trump’s character are useless at this point, especially for Republican voters.
“I think those Republicans have already figured out that they don’t like him,” he said.
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