Gingrich complains Harris will use ‘nasty, mean, personal’ attacks during debate

Newt Grigrich gave Trump some debate advice, as if he were planning to debate Harris. Just as news broke that Trump already seemed to be pulling out of the ABC debate scheduled for September 10, Gingrich appeared on Fox News and complained to host Laura Ingraham about how mean Kamala Harris would be to Trump if they ever debated.

After attacking Harris for comments she made following her visit to Netanyahu, and accusing her of using the White House to campaign, Gingrich lashed out at her, making sure to use the word “radical” as many times as possible.

GINGRICH: So you’ve just gotten a taste of what a President Kamala Harris would look like. The problem she has, of course, as you point out, is that she’s a San Francisco radical, and her record is impossible to hide, no matter how hard the media tries to hide it or throw it in a memory hole or get rid of it.

The fact is, in the end, she’s going to be a San Francisco radical. But, in all fairness, parties can compete using the tools they have. One of the tools they have right now is the White House.

So you can’t blame her for trying. Patrice doesn’t think it does her much good, because in the end, I think no matter what happens in the next six weeks, no matter how hard the media tries, no matter who she chooses as her vice president, in the end, she’s going to be a San Francisco radical.

She won’t be able to escape this. And it will eventually crush her, just as it crushed Dukakis and McGovern.

The guy who was ousted as Speaker of the House in disgrace, has a long history of cheating on his multiple wives, did nothing but spout racial slurs throughout the Obama campaign, and wrote a book about demonizing and dehumanizing his political opponents, but the other side is made up of “radicals.” Sure, Newt.

Ingraham then asked if he had any advice for Trump if he debated Harris, and the amount of pure projection here is something to behold.

GINGRICH: Well, first of all, I want to say to Vice President Harris that if you look back over the last decade, anybody who thinks Donald Trump is easy to debate is really stupid. He’ll be ready, in part because he’s been through it.

I mean, he’s done everything she wants to pretend to do. But I would say there’s a difference here. The left is going to engage in nasty, nasty, personal fights because it can’t win them except through abortion, under certain conditions.

And even then, they lose if you push them to the ninth month, which I think Kamala is in. That’s an extremist position, and she’s also a loser. So there’s no policy issue on which they’re going to win.

So they’re going to get into nasty, personal, nasty stuff. I think she would try to bait Trump. And my advice is very simple. We win if we’re slower, if we keep our distance, it’s like a boxing match. We want to hit from a distance. She wants to hang on. We want it to be slower so you can see the facts. She wants it to be very fast so that, in fact, everything stays cluttered. The cluttered it is, the better her chances.

The clearer and more open it is, the less likely it is to succeed. And I think we should work very hard to avoid all the nasty and unpleasant things and stick to the essentials. That’s what I would advise.

Open, clear and factual are not exactly the first words that come to mind when thinking about Trump’s latest debates. Galloping, fast-talking, mean, nasty, tyrannical and talking louder than everyone else, that’s Trump’s debate style.

They know Harris will bring up sexual assault, fraud, her failed businesses, her position on abortion (which is actually the “radical” position, not hers), and a host of other topics that Trump doesn’t really want to talk about if there’s a debate. Of course, Trump won’t respond to any of this. He’ll just attack and insult.

Gingrich is already working the referees by anticipating that Trump might be shot, and claiming that Harris will shoot him unfairly if that happens.