Check the look of dismay/disdain on Kasie Hunt's face as she decried Donald Trump having called Kamala Harris, during his Atlanta rally on Sunday, a "low-IQ individual."
On today's CNN This Morning, Hunt claimed that Trump's statement was "definitely race-related."
Really? Shall we take a stroll down the list of people of pallor whose intellect Trump has disparaged? Let's begin with the infamous tweet in which Trump used the very same term regarding the very white Mika Brzezinski: "low-I.Q. Crazy Mika."
Other examples of white people whose intellect Trump has derided:
- Jeff Sessions: A "dumb Southerner"
- Karl Rove: "Stupid" [five times]
- Glenn Beck: "Stupid" "dumb as a rock"
- Lindsey Graham: "Dumb mouthpiece"
- John McCain: "dummy," "graduated last in his class"
- Arianna Huffington: "dummy"
- Brit Hume: "dope, know nothing"
There are others, but you get the picture. When it comes to insulting people's intelligence, Trump is the Don Rickles of politicians.
Hunt put it to former Biden aide Meghan Hays that Trump's "low-IQ" attack on Harris could actually backfire. Hays was only too happy to agree, saying that the kind of people that Trump needs to persuade in the swing states tend to be non-Trump, Nikki Haley-type women voters who won't look kindly at a women being disparaged as "low-IQ."
We must be in deep in the thousdands of occasions where CNN has predicted "backlash" or "backfires" for Trump since 2015. But let's ask this: Hasn't CNN called people they don't agree with "stupid"? Like CNN analyst Ana Navarro said Latinos backing Trump have a "very stupid attitude" -- is that racist?
Trump could certainly focus, as we have previously noted, on the treasure trove of of far-left policy positions that Harris has taken. But in saying it's "race-related" for Trump to call Harris "low-IQ," Hunt chose to ignore his long history of questioning the smarts of his opponents--of all races.
Here's the transcript.
CNN This Morning
8/5/24
6:18 am EDTDONALD TRUMP: CNN we're going to defeat Crazy Kamala, Ka-ma-la, you know, there's about 19 different ways of saying it. She only likes three. She was here a week ago, lots of empty seats. But the crowd she got was because she had entertainers. She refuses to even say the words illegal alien, or radical Islamic terrorists.
She is considered more left-wing than Crazy Bernie Sanders, look at her, she's worse than Bernie.And she happens to be, really, a low-IQ individual.
KASIE HUNT: A low-IQ individual. That was a selection of the various ways in which Donald Trump is going on offense against his new rival.
. . .
I mean, Meghan Hays, this low-IQ stuff, I mean, it's definitely race-related, right? And this is a thing that, when when it was clear that Joe Biden was leaving the race, one of the notes I got from a Republican in Trump's orbit was that this is going to mean that he is not going to be able to resist going to these places.
What do you think? I mean, if you're the Democrats, are these the kinds of attacks, in some ways you would say, well, that's going to actually backfire? It's going to help us. How do you look at it?
MEGHAN HAYS: No, I definitely think it helps the Democrats, I think going back to this in five or six states, with 10,000 people in each state that are going to determine this election. And most of these people are independent women and they're like the non-Trump people, the Nikki Haley voters that we were calling them earlier in the cycle.
These are not people who are going to take kindly to calling a woman having low-IQ, calling out her race, making personal attacks against her. That's not going to win you voters. That energizes your base, and it might be great it for fundraising, but it is not what's going to win you the election.
