CNN’s Chris Wallace And Abby Phillip Laugh At How Trump ‘Makes It Easy’ For Biden To Compare Trump With Nazis
CNN anchor Chris Wallace and fellow anchor Abby Phillip shared a laugh as they agreed that former President Donald Trump “makes it easy” for President Joe Biden to make Nazi comparisons because Trump “does quote Hitler!”
A defining feature of Trump’s campaign in the past few months has been an escalating tendency to echo Adolf Hitler and other Nazi propaganda.
On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Phillip asked Wallace if going after Trump is Biden’s best bet, and Wallace brought up the Nazi stuff. He told Phillip that Biden aides are asking — half-jokingly — “When are we going to go full Hitler?”
Both anchors then agreed Trump gives them plenty of fuel, and Wallace said it’s probably a better bet than trying to budge Biden’s stubbornly low approval ratings:
PHILLIP: Real quick, Chris, on the Democratic side, the Biden campaign, they are kind of refocusing in this New Year to target Trump and once again the threat to democracy that they say he poses. They have a slate of events coming up in the next couple of weeks. Do you think that this is their best bet in terms of messaging, focus on basically the things that Biden ran on in 2020, the threat to democracy from Trump, and restoring essentially the soul of the nation?
WALLACE: Look, for most of the last few months, Biden has been trying to sell himself. He’s leaned into Bidenomics. He’s tried to say, hey, look, the country is in really good shape. The economy is in really good shape. And in one of the recent polls, he was down at 34 percent approval. So, clearly, making the positive case for Joe Biden, his administration and his agenda isn’t working.
He’ll still do that. I mean, he’s got the State of the Union in early February. He’ll talk about what he’s accomplished, what he wants to accomplish in a second term. But it sure seems like the best shot they’ve got at this point is to go after Trump very much of the way they did in 2020, the way they did in 2022 on issues of democracy, the Constitution, civil liberties in this country. In fact, some aides in the Biden campaign have half jokingly said, when are we going to go full Hitler? Meaning when are we going to start making a direct comparison between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler, comments on poisoning the blood and vermin. And it may come down to that.
PHILLIP: Trump makes it easy for them. (laughs) He does quote Hitler! So, I mean, it’s there.
WALLACE: (laughs) That’s right. It does make it easy. You’ve got the sound bites, and it’s not going to be pretty, but it may be the most effective way for Joe Biden to get re-elected.
PHILLIP: Yes. Well, we’ll see how that turns out. Chris, as always, thank you so much for joining us.
WALLACE: Thank you, Abby.
Watch above via CNN NewsNight.
