Fox’s Larry Kudlow and Kellyanne Conway Beg Trump to Avoid ‘Distraction’ of Insulting Harris: ‘Stay on Message’

Fox Business host Larry Kudlow and Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway were in agreement Monday about the best strategy for former President Donald Trump: avoid the “distraction” of personally insulting Vice President Kamala Harris. Whether or not the former president will take their advice remains to be seen.

As part of a discussion of the two presidential candidates’ campaign trail rhetoric, Kudlow commented that what Trump needed to do was to focus on policy issues and “hammer away on what he did” and how Harris would differ.

Kudlow added that these topics were “kind of a gift,” calling Harris’ running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz a “socialist gift,” and what he called Harris’ “flip-flops and plagiarisms and so forth” were “little gifts” and Trump needed to “turn them into important gifts.”

“He has to hammer away, does he not?” said Kudlow. “That’s what — don’t wander off, don’t call her stupid and all kinds of names, stay on message?”

“The winning formula for President Trump is very plain to see,” replied Conway, who previously served as Trump’s campaign manager. “It’s fewer insults, more insights, and that policy contrast.”

Conway described Trump as having the “hunger” and “swagger” of his 2016 “underdog” campaign back, plus now a four year presidential record, touting his economic policies compared to “tax-and-spend, you know they call him ‘Tampon Tim,’ but I call him ‘Tax-and-Spend Tim,’ in Minnesota — he’s proud of it, he’ll brag to you about taxing and spending there.”

Harris “has been no better,” Conway continued, so “if President Trump would just contrast the policies, he’ll win,” citing past polling to claim that Trump “has a two-to-one advantage over Biden-Harris on the economy and inflation, on the border, on Israel and Hamas, on the key issues that are important to people.”

She specifically mentioned Trump’s scheduled interview with Elon Musk as a great opportunity for him to show this “policy contrast.”

“‘If you know what I’m for, you know what they’re against’ — then you’ve got that contrast,” she said.

Kudlow agreed with her and commented that “again, I think personal insults of her are not a good idea, really not a good idea. It’s a distraction, it’s unnecessary, it’s off message.”

Watch the clip above via Fox Business.