"Deadline White House" host Nicolle Wallace began her Monday show with a panel on Vice President Kamala Harris and the impact she will make on Donald Trump's campaign.
She spoke to political strategist and distinguished lecturer Dr. Basil Smikle, Jr., and pointed out that the most entertaining piece of the new 2024 campaign is "the bumper sticker writes itself, right? That almost never happens in campaigns. But, prosecutor, meet felon. I mean, here we go. Day one."
Smikle agreed, "here we go."
He explained of Harris, "What is gratifying to see is that everyone, and everyone today, has talked about this, that there was such a rallying around her."
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He explained that all the potentially negative things people said about Harris had disappeared. For years, Harris was trashed publicly and in print," where they were, in "some ways, diminishing her" and "diminishing her credentials."
"That talent, that skill set is now front and center in being able to prosecute a convicted felon, a recidivist, who will be standing across from her, and it changes the whole dynamic," Smikle continued.
He anticipated that Harris would be attacked on "policy, migrants, and crime" but said that "there are going to be two levels to this criticism."
"One is going to be a policy criticism, but one is just below that. If they're going to attack her on migrants and immigration, they're also going to start attacking her on her own ethnicity, being a child of Jamaican and South Asian parentage," he said. "She's going to be attacked on the economy, but underneath that, she's going to be attacked on whether or not she earned the job that she has."
He cited the New York Post headline claiming she was the "DEI Candidate" as an example. It's a catchphrase used by conservatives to claim women and people of color are only hired for their race and gender. Smikle said he witnessed a lot of that while working for Hillary Clinton.
"These racialized and gendered attacks are coming and have already started. And I have always been concerned about those who were asking Joe Biden to step down; I hope they use that same energy to defend Kamala Harris should that time come," he explained.
He pointed to those saying that a Black woman can't win in the United States and said, "Stop it right there. The biggest challenge is the doubt. That doubt as to whether or not the country is ready. I don't know if the country is ready, but I'm going to cast my ballot. You have to cast your ballot. She's ready. You have to be ready."
See the discussion in the video below or at the link here.
'Prosecutor meet felon': Nicolle Wallace mocks Trump’s new race against Kamala Harris youtu.be
