NewsNation’s Leland Vittert Grills Ted Cruz Over GOP’s Struggle To Turn the Tide Against Kamala Harris: ‘Is Donald Trump Becoming a Drag on Republicans?’

NewsNation chief Washington anchor Leland Vittert grilled Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) over the Republican Party’s struggle to turn the tide against Vice President Kamala Harris after Cruz dismissed Harris’s success in the polls as a temporary “sugar high.”

Introducing Cruz to the show, Vittert asked bluntly: “I don’t know any other way to ask this but directly. Is Donald Trump becoming a drag on Republicans?”

“No, I don’t think so at all,” replied Cruz. “I think Donald Trump is gonna win in November and I think we’re gonna see Republicans take the Senate and I think we’re gonna win the House.”

He continued:

Look, we’re right now at a moment where Kamala Harris is enjoying a sugar high. She has been named as the nominee without a single Democrat voting for her for president, but she’s been named as the nominee, and for a month the media has been doing a relentless propaganda, billions of dollars of propaganda trying to prop her up, and that entire month, Kamala Harris has done zero media interviews, she’s done zero press conferences. Their strategy is they take her to a basement, I guess Joe Biden’s basement where they kept him, and they hide her from ever answering a question.

As Cruz continued to criticize Harris for not doing enough media appearances since the launch of her campaign, Vittert interrupted: “We’ve made that point over and over and over again about Kamala Harris and it is a very valid one. The fact of the matter, though, is it’s working and Republicans have yet to seem to find a way to counter it. Why is that?”

Cruz responded: “Well look, I think the way to counter it is to focus on the issues and focus on substance,” before launching into a criticism of Harris’s record on the southern border.

“I get all that, I get all that,” Vittert shot back. “But I keep hearing from Republicans, and I’ve heard it since the first week that Kamala Harris became coronated as the nominee, that this ‘sugar high’ was going to end.”

He then questioned: “I’m not asking you about the issues, I’m asking you how are Republicans going to get a win and change the conversation when so far, for forty days, you all have been unable to?”

Cruz replied: “It’s incumbent on the Trump campaign to focus on the issues, on how people’s lives are worse off under Kamala Harris than they were under Donald Trump. Under Donald Trump we had record prosperity.”

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