'A Big Mistake' - Kamala Harris Torpedoes Her Own Campaign

Hey, ladies and gentlemen, this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America, and, well, Kamala Harris just made a big mistake that could torpedo her presidential campaign

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It really helps us out. You know, Vice President Kamala Harris is not the sharpest tool in the shed, shall we say

Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but what she did this past week

maybe her biggest political mistake yet. You see, there's a number of reasons for it, as Scott Jennings from CNN is going to get into in this video, I'm going to show you

she attacked Governor Ron DeSantis Right after he had one hurricane and was preparing for another

She attacked him for not taking her phone call A phone call she hasn't made in three and a half years

For any other storm until her presidential campaign started And she attacked him on national TV

Now you're looking at a guy who is probably the most popular

And effective governor in the entire nation And has the sympathy of other people

who maybe don't like him so much, but know that his, his state is facing really disaster after disaster

And so they sympathize with that. She makes it political. And then Biden buries her by saying, no, no, no

Ron DeSantis is doing a great job, the Florida governor. Think about that. Think about that

She really got sideswiped by the former by the current president I should say by President Biden I want you to listen to this report on it this ysis And then let me know what you think in the comments

You've both been in the White House when there are events like this beyond one's control

Scott, let me just start with you. I just have to imagine Ron DeSantis is said to speak any minute. We'll go there when he does

The campaigns can't operate separately from this. They have to be aware of this

I don't know if they pause for today. tomorrow and let this land but what do you do well i think you uh in all of your public communications

no matter what you're doing uh you have to always show the american people that you have uh their

fellow citizens uh in your heart i mean this is the kind of historic storm that you know some people

aren't going to survive it there's going to be widespread property devastation and uh you have

to just show the empathy that people would expect out of the american presence so that's i think

campaign communications number one number two what you can't do is try to insert

politics into this. And I think, honestly, this week when Kamala Harris attacked Ron DeSantis as he

was preparing for this hurricane, that was a huge campaign mistake for her. She should not have done

that. Biden came out and corrected the record, said he and DeSantis are working well together

That was the proper response. Well, the flip side of that, of course, is what the Trump team

and Donald Trump himself have done in terms of information surrounding Hurricane Helene

misinformation. And it did seem that Vice President Harris was trying to point that out with

Stephen Colbert, we have that clip. I think we can play that right here. Have you no empathy man

You know, for the suffering of other people. Have you no sense of purpose if you purport to be a leader

to understand that being a leader means lifting people up in a time of need and not manipulating them So to my first question Kate how do you navigate this moment

You can't just not campaign with 27 days left. Well, right. And I think Scott's right

You put empathy front and center. I think if we're talking about not inserting politics into this conversation

I mean, that has unfortunately been what Donald Trump has done from the start here

in spreading all of this misinformation, disinformation, confusing people who are on the ground in these areas who need assistance

need help. You know, so for Harris, I think the key here is to allow the government, allow the Biden

administration to run the response, which they have been incredibly aggressive about, despite

what Donald Trump has tried to say. You know, you've had Republicans from Governor Kemp to Congressman Edwards, who represents

Western North Carolina. you've had Republicans come out and debunk some of the lies that Trump has told and say that they've been working effectively with the federal government

So I think, you know, you take a step back today. You don't do the hyper political campaigning if you're the Harris campaign

You let the government respond, get people the help that they need

And then you reinforce that, you know, in your administration, moving forward, government's always going to be there to support people in this time of crisis

But absolutely, politics should take a back seat over the next couple

couple of days. You know, it just occurred to me that this also does inject two figures who were not

supposed to be at this point, at least a few weeks ago, central to this campaign right into the

middle of it, President Joe Biden and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. I am curious, Kate, about the dynamics

there I not sure the Harris campaign wants many of these weeks to be about President Biden but who knows Well so I would actually disagree with that because I think in these moments where you have government responding to crisis people working across the aisle that is actually what people

want to see their government doing. You know, I worked for President Biden when he went to Florida in 2020 in the wake of

the hurricane there, went to Sanibel Island or nearby, you know, met with Governor DeSantis

They stood together behind a podium and talked about the support for that community

President Biden said will be there. The federal government will be there to help you rebuild

So, you know, these are actually moments where people see their leaders doing the right thing

working across the aisle, responding effectively to a catastrophic, potentially. We're looking at a catastrophic situation over the next 24, 36 hours

And I do think that's what people want to see their elected leaders doing

And the dissentist angle of it, Ron, I mean, Scott, is that, I mean, Republican voters didn't

chose the other guy. They chose the older guy who has a different type of record with natural disasters than Ron DeSantis does

I know, and during this whole hurricane period, I've heard so many Republicans praising Ron DeSantis

even Donald Trump has been out there doing that as well. I mean, he is an emergency management boss

No nonsense. Takes no crap from anybody. It tells people exactly what they need to know, when they need to know it

Across the political spectrum, there is widespread agreement that Ron DeSantis. This is the best emergency management government executive in the country

Thank God. He is the governor of Florida right now doing a terrific job, and we're praying for him and his people

Ron, Republican voters didn't choose him, though, in the primaries. They did not, but he's a young man, and I suspect we'll be around for a long time

All right, Scott Jennings. Thank you very much. Kate Benningfield. Thanks