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Donald Trump marketing campaign aide Corey Lewandowski was scolded by CNN anchor Jim Acosta on Wednesday for seemingly intentionally mispronouncing Kamala Harris’s identify.
In an look on CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta someday after the vice presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz, Lewandowski incorrectly pronounced the Democratic presidential nominee’s first identify – inserting a heavy emphasis on its center syllable.
It’s a behavior that Trump and his fellow MAGA Republicans have been repeatedly using throughout the 2024 race.
This time spherical, Acosta known as out his visitor for it.
“Corey, you’ve been in this business a long time. I think you’re a mature grown-up,” he stated, earlier than education him in find out how to say her identify correctly.
“It’s Kamala Harris. Can you say Kamala? Or you cannot say Kamala? What’s going on there?”
Lewandowski skated over the comment and continued to press on along with his ready anti-immigration speaking factors, which Acosta interrupted and shut down the interview.
“All right, well, Corey, I appreciate you coming on. Maybe we’ll have you back. Thanks for your time,” he stated.
Harris has been compelled to clarify how her identify needs to be pronounced prior to now , notably within the face of Trump’s repeated and deliberate mispronunciation.
In 2016, she issued a light-hearted marketing campaign video on the topic when she first ran for the Senate.
Then this August, her younger grandnieces Amara and Leela Ajagu appeared on stage on the Democratic National Convention to show the group.
Acosta’s interview with Lewandowski had already been tense previous to its abrupt conclusion.
The anchor had requested the Republican about Vance’s evasive response on the talk stage when requested if he would admit Trump misplaced the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.
Lewandowski responded by additionally skirting the subject.
“Jim, I think it’s very simple – the American people have passed the 2020 election, they are focused on an election that’s just under five weeks away,” Lewandowski responded, the identical emphasis Vance laid on the matter on the marketing campaign path in Michigan on Wednesday.
After debating the relevance of 2020 to the 2024 contest and the way “widespread” voter fraud could or could not have been 4 years in the past, Acosta adopted up by giving Lewandowski the chance to denounce the Trump-Vance lie that Haitian immigrants are stealing and consuming residents’ pet cats and canine in Springfield, Ohio.
The Trump adviser dodged this additionally: “You know what I can say Jim? I can say that 13,099 murderers were let into this country, 16,000 rapists, 425,000 people in the last four years have been let into this country by Kamala Harris and Joe Biden’s own Customs and Border Protection that are running around this country committing crimes…”
Acosta sharply fired again: “I asked you at the beginning of this interview ‘Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?’ I just asked you if Haitian migrants are eating dogs and cats in Springfield. You won’t admit the truth on either of those questions.”
