Bill O’Reilly referred to both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump as “tone deaf” in his recent assessment of their messaging.
On Monday evening, O’Reilly engaged in a conversation with Leland Vittert of NewsNation regarding the presidential campaign.
“He should be up by seven or eight on the economy and the border,” O’Reilly said.
He contended that despite the stark contrasts between Harris and Trump’s campaigns, both are inadvertently undermining their own campaigns through their “tone-deaf” policy messaging.
“Both candidates are what they call tone deaf. So Kamala Harris has heard a million times, she’d have to, that answering every question with you were raised in a middle class home above some childcare center is not an answer and it’s making you look foolish, and it does, and only the zealots and the hardcore Trump haters think that’s a good thing. Donald Trump has been told many, many, many times that personal attacks detract from whatever point he’s trying to make,” he added.
O’Reilly characterized Trump as being overly resistant to any form of coaching, while portraying Harris as the contrary. He cited Harris’s repeated references to her middle class upbringing in response to various inquiries.
The former Fox News host contended that Trump’s hyperbole regarding migrants is counterproductive and unnecessary, given that evidence such as a recent report from ICE informing Congress that there are over 400,000 illegal migrants who have been convicted of crimes yet remain unincarcerated in the United States.
“You don’t need to say that migrants will come into your kitchen and slit your throat because that’s not really fair to the migrants who won’t do that, right?” O’Reilly said.
“There are a percentage who will do that, but be specific about what you’re saying. Donald Trump doesn’t want to do that because it takes too much time to do it. He wants to make the broad point, and this is his thinking: I won in 2016 doing exactly what I’m doing now. And that’s true, but it’s a different time and the electorate is much angrier now than it was eight years ago.” he continued.
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