Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) slammed Vice President Harris’s performance at the ABC News debate versus former President Trump, claiming she acted like a “spoiled teenager.”
Gingrich, in a Fox News op-ed published on Saturday, repeatedly slammed the debate moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, political “elites” and argued Harris “failed to achieve her objectives.”
“Harris further hurt herself by spending a large part of her listening time making faces and looking cute,” Gingrich wrote in the op-ed. “It was the behavior of a spoiled teenager, not a commander-in-chief.”
“The elites value style over substance,” he continued. “They would like everyone to behave as though they were at a Washington cocktail party. Most Americans are not so highfalutin. Most Americans do not appreciate well-dressed, clever people treating them as if they are ignorant and incapable of realizing when they are being manipulated and lied to.”
The former speaker said that political “elites” misread what happened at the ABC News debate Tuesday night because they prioritized “style” over “substance.”
“The fact is, authenticity beats wearing a mask,” he wrote. “Being yourself beats trying to be the person your consultants have trained you to be. This has always been true in American politics.”