CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Maggie Haberman Why Trump Keeps Ranting About Kamala Harris Replacing Biden: ‘Why Is He So Obsessed?’
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer asked New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman why ex-President Donald Trump is still ranting about Vice President Kamala Harris replacing President Joe Biden as the nominee after so many months.
Trump has broken into bitter rants ever since the Biden-to-Harris switch in July, but exploded into an especially wild social media meltdown Thursday, demanding an investigation and the restoration of Biden as the nominee.
On Thursday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room, Blitzer asked Haberman — whom he noted “knows Trump well” — “why is he still so obsessed with Biden?”:
BLITZER: Maggie, you know Trump well, you’re probably one of the best reporters who knows Trump and what he’s thinking. Why is he escalating his threats to his political opponents that he deems, quote, the enemy within? Why is this his closing message, what, less than three weeks until the election?
MAGGIE HABERMAN: Because it’s what he wants to talk about and because he was told earlier in the election cycle that he shouldn’t talk about retribution because it was problematic with some voters. And for whatever reason his language, and I think we can point to a couple of reasons, but his language has gotten much darker, it has gotten much more apocalyptic, and he has gotten far less concerned about what threatening people might mean.
BLITZER: And he’s railing against Kamala Harris, as he always does, but especially on social media, writing this, and I’m quoting him now: “Kamala should be investigated and forced off the campaign, and Joe Biden allowed to take back his rightful place.” Why is he still so obsessed with Biden?
HABERMAN: It’s a great question. He has been fixated on this, Wolf. He continues to believe that it was unfair the Democrats changed out their nominee. He believed he had this essentially in the bag against Joe Biden. The atmosphere at the Republican National Convention was jubilant. They were all on a high. They believe — it was right after the assassination attempt in Butler. And they believed that they were heading into a lock, and that obviously has not been the case.
Now, he still may win, it’s a very tight race, but it has been a much more competitive race than it looked like it was going to be after the Trump-Biden debate, and he’s very angry about it.
Watch above via CNN’s The Situation Room.
