Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) skewered ABC News host Jonathan Karl during an interview on Sunday over false remarks that he made about Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris’ policy positions.
The remarks on the network’s “This Week” happened when Cotton correctly pointed out the numerous ways that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is different from Harris, who has supported “decriminalizing illegal immigration or giving taxpayer-funded health insurance to illegal aliens or taking away health insurance on the job for 170 million Americans, banning gas cars, confiscating firearms.>
“What do you mean taking away health insurance?” Karl snapped at Cotton. “What are you talking about?”
“She said when she ran for president that she wants to eliminate private health insurance on the job of 170 million Americans, Jon,” Cotton correctly noted.
Karl responded by claiming that that position was “not her position now.”
“How do you know that’s not her position? How do you know that’s not her position?” Cotton pressed.
Karl claimed that she no longer supports the position, which Harris has not indicated.
“She has not said that. She has not said that. She has not said that,” Cotton fired back. “Maybe anonymous aides on a Friday night have said that, but the last thing that she said –”
Karl cut off Cotton and claimed that Harris was “not taking the positions of the far left of her party.”
“She’s clearly making an effort to move to the middle,” Karl claimed.
Cotton noted that during Karl’s interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that Sanders was “very disappointed” that Harris was trying to “hide her positions.”
“The American people are totally justified to conclude that Kamala Harris is a dangerous San Francisco liberal based on what she campaigned on the last time she ran for president and what this administration has done for the last four years,” he said. “Again, you would have thought watching the Democratic convention last week that the Democrats are not in office, that they’re not in power, that they’re campaigning against an incumbent Republican, when in reality she’s been part of the failures of the Biden-Harris administration for four years. And when she campaigned for president in her own right, she did in fact promise things like decriminalizing illegal immigration, taking away —”
Karl again cut Cotton off, claiming that Harris has “clearly changed” her positions, which she has not.
“No, no, she has not,” Cotton fired back. “Jon, she has not said.”
WATCH:
On #ThisWeek, @JonKarl unaware of Harris’s stance against private health insurance. When @SenTomCotton notes it, Karl: “What do you mean taking away health insurance? What are talking about?” Then: “That is not her position now….clearly making an effort to move to the middle.” pic.twitter.com/dLk3LEnuCp
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) August 25, 2024