Fox News host doesn't remember “anyone in President Trump's orbit bringing up the race of Kamala Harris”
Kayleigh McEnany: “That seems like a horribly horrific lie and excuse”
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From the May 8, 2025, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered
KAYLEIGH MCENANY (CO-HOST): You know, Harris, he talked about ‘they played the mixed race card.' I don't recall Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Karoline Leavitt, anyone in President Trump's orbit bringing up the race of Kamala Harris. That seems like a horribly horrific lie and excuse and yet that's the reason he's bringing it to “The View."
HARRIS FAULKNER (CO-HOST): Well, he has his own agenda on all of this. He's trying to rescue a sinking ship, better known as his legacy and reputation. So, good luck with that. The only time I remember it was when basically the president was ambushed at the NABJ convention and you know, we had one reporter go after him and race did come up in that conversation decidedly. But what former President Biden is talking about is a reason to blame, because they didn't want him. And then he goes on with, beyond that, why they might not have wanted her. He picked her for vice president. So if he thought that those were going to be an issue, the minute they put her atop the ticket, he should have been out there vociferously, out there really defending her but he wasn't. It was so hard to understand him. He was still the mumbling and at times, bumbling person that they didn't want on the left and the nation decided they didn't want. So, he can play the ‛mixed race card' as he calls it, all he wants, but I don't think he's understanding the moment. And it's an opportunity for him to say, ‘Look we didn't get some things right. I want to help my party now and tell them Bidenomics weren't the answer.' He could be useful in this moment to the party if he cared about it more than he cares about himself.
MCENANY: Yeah and instead he argues that that was the central message of the Trump campaign. In no way, shape, or form was it.