Former CNN anchor Don Lemon appeared surprised by historically deep blue New Jersey, where voters told him they would support Donald Trump in the election. Lemon recently spoke to people in Atlantic City and tried to defend Vice President Harris in a video he posted Saturday.
The first interviewee said, “Trump for the win” and added that Vice President Harris was not good for the lead role.
“Is this something to do with being a woman?” The former CNN anchor responded and the person said it had nothing to do with her gender.
Harris quickly took over from President Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket after the president announced he would withdraw from the race, following weeks of pressure from fellow Democrats.
“Four years ago, it was much better. I made a lot more money than now,” said another voter.
Lemon pulled back and said, “I know you feel that way, but that’s not really what the data shows, the economy was better under Biden.”
The voter laughed as Lemon added: “No, I’m serious.”
“Do you watch CNN?” the voter shot back.
One voter Lemon spoke to said he thought Harris would win the election, but said he planned to support Trump because Harris “doesn’t have any experience.”
Lemon shot back, “she’s vice president, she’s senator.”
The other woman in the video said she wanted Trump to win and said she wanted someone who had “a stronger background with the military.”
Lemon told the interviewer that Harris had been a prosecutor, attorney general, senator and vice president.
Another voter said he was supporting the former president because of Harris’ record on immigration and the border crisis.
Lemon’s video ended with the reporter saying, “I have to get out of Atlantic City. Where are we going next?”
The former CNN reporter recently stopped in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and found that most voters he spoke to were planning to support Harris.
“It’s time. We don’t have just one woman representing[ing] country, but a black woman. She’s going to be able to represent, I think, a wider group of people than anyone else we’ve ever seen,” one woman told Lemon.
Harris’ campaign announced Wednesday that she would impose a “federal ban on food and grocery price increases” as president in an effort to stop “big corporations” from taking advantage of consumers.
Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampel criticized Harris’ proposal, writing, “It’s hard to overstate how bad this policy is.”
“But more to the point: If your opponent claims you’re a ‘communist,’ maybe don’t start with an economic agenda that could (accurately) be labeled federal price controls,” she wrote. “We already have a lot of economic rubble coming from the Republican presidential ticket. Do we really need more from the other side as well?”
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