Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine said Wednesday that “some voters” are frustrated with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tendency to stick to scripted responses during interviews.
Harris began granting more interviews in October after initially avoiding them following her campaign launch on July 21. Turrentine, on “The Megyn Kelly Show,” based his observation in part on the voters he communicates with on “The Morning Meeting,” a show he co-hosts on journalist Mark Halperin’s 2WAY platform, adding that Harris typically only goes off-script when attacking former President Donald Trump.
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“Her message discipline has been very intense. She has stuck to her kind of narrow set of talking points to the point where I think she’s offended some voters. I hope they haven’t thrown their hands up and locked in for Trump, but it is something you see,” Turrentine said. “You know, we hear it on our show, you see it in the data, both the campaigns’ and what’s out there publicly, that there is frustration that she is so scripted and so tight in her answers.”
“And I think some of her best moments on the campaign have been when she’s leaned forward and had passion and energy and kind of gotten off the talking points, which really, the one issue where we see that is when it’s anti-Trump,” he added. “Like, you can tell she dislikes the guy so much. It really probably is the animating reason why she’s running.”
Turrentine also asserted that he believes “the average voter” would say “she just hates Trump” if asked why they think Harris wants to be elected as president.
“I don’t know if that’s going to be successful or not, but it’s the only place that she kind of lets the guard down, lets the hair down and really shows who she is and how she feels,” he said.
One voter on “The Morning Meeting” recently said, “She’s fake, she’s scripted, she gives a lot of word salad” when asked what she finds most troubling about Harris.
When radio host Charlamagne Tha God brought up criticism about Harris sounding “scripted” during their recent town hall, the vice president responded, “That would be called discipline.”
“The reality is that there are certain things that must be repeated to ensure that I have everyone know what I stand for and the issues that I think are at stake in this election,” she added. “And so it requires repetition.”
As her campaign comes to its end, Harris has changed her messaging from promoting joyfulness to attempting to characterize Trump as a danger to the United States, The New York Times reported. Pollster Frank Luntz said Tuesday that Harris will “fail” to win the election “if she’s just beating up on Donald Trump.”
Trump currently holds small leads over Harris in each of the seven top swing states, according to the RealClearPolling averages.
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