Bill O’Reilly called both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump “tone deaf” regarding messaging.
O’Reilly joined NewsNation’s Leland Vittert on Monday evening to discuss the presidential race. He argued that though Harris and Trump have very different campaigns, they are both similarly hurting themselves with their “tone-deaf” messaging on policies.
“He should be up by seven or eight on the economy and the border,” O’Reilly said about Trump.
O’Reilly described Trump as too resistant to any coaching while making out Harris as the opposite, citing her repeated mentions of her “middle class” upbringing to different questions.
“Both candidates are what they call tone deaf. So Kamala Harris has heard a million times, she’d have to, that answering every question with you were raised in a middle class home above some childcare center is not an answer and it’s making you look foolish, and it does, and only the zealots and the hardcore Trump haters think that’s a good thing. Donald Trump has been told many, many, many times that personal attacks detract from whatever point he’s trying to make,” O’Reilly said.
The former Fox News host argued Trump’s hyperbole on migrants only works against him and it’s completely unnecessary when you can point to things like the a recent report from ICE informing Congress there are more than 400,000 illegal migrants convicted of crimes free in the United States.
O’Reilly said:
“You don’t need to say that migrants will come into your kitchen and slit your throat because that’s not really fair to the migrants who won’t do that, right? There are a percentage who will do that, but be specific about what you’re saying. Donald Trump doesn’t want to do that because it takes too much time to do it. He wants to make the broad point, and this is his thinking: I won in 2016 doing exactly what I’m doing now. And that’s true, but it’s a different time and the electorate is much angrier now than it was eight years ago.”
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