Vice President Kamala Harris admitted on Wednesday that the thought of former President Donald Trump returning to the Oval Office had her spooked.
Harris made the comments during Wednesday’s broadcast of “The View,” ABC’s midday talk show — and she explained her position with a quotation: “There are only two ways to run for office: Either without an opponent or scared.”
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"I am scared as heck, which is why I'm traveling our country," says @VP Kamala Harris on #TheView when asked about the potential of a second Trump presidency. "We don't run away from something when we're scared. We fight back against it." pic.twitter.com/5aFwS8QAMx
— The View (@TheView) January 17, 2024
Regular co-host Joy Behar began the conversation by noting that a number of Democratic Party “heavy-hitters” had weighed in on Biden’s campaign thus far and were worried that he wasn’t pushing hard enough against the other side.
“President Obama reportedly has said that he thinks the Biden campaign is too complacent when it comes to Trump. Representative Jim Clyburn has said the campaign isn’t breaking through the MAGA wall. Michelle Obama says she’s terrified, as we are, about the potential outcome of the election,” Behar explained before turning the question to Harris.
“Now, are you scared? What could happen if Trump ever became, God forbid, president again? And what are you going to do to stop the crazies?” she asked.
“I am scared as heck! Which is why I’m traveling our country,” Harris replied. “You know, there’s an old saying that there are only two ways to run for office: Either without an opponent or scared,” she continued. “So on all of those points, yes, we should ALL be scared.”
Harris went on to say that fear was the reason that she was ready to work hard going into the 2024 presidential election.
“We don’t run away from something when we’re scared. We fight back against it. Right. Yeah. So many of us know when we are scared for the future of our children, do we then stay in bed with the covers over our head? Nope. No we can’t. We cannot. We cannot,” she said.
“And this is where this election requires rightly that President Biden and I and — and all of us who are part of this administration, we got to earn reelection. There is no question. We got to be on the road,” she added.
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Co-host Sara Haines pressed Harris on campaign issues, noting that the Biden team was pushing ahead with a campaign to “save democracy” while most Americans were more worried about the issues that impacted them on a day-to-day basis.
Harris pushed back, arguing that the two were inextricably linked and stressing multiple times that losing the right to abortion had a grave impact on the freedoms that Americans were used to, adding, “We will not have the kind of quality of life that I think most people want without fundamental freedoms and the rights that are guaranteed in our Constitution.”
.@VP Harris to #TheView on the 2024 election: "We will not have the kind of quality of life that I think most people want without fundamental freedoms and the rights that are guaranteed in our Constitution… and all of that is very much at stake." pic.twitter.com/DEGJ3t4k2q
— The View (@TheView) January 17, 2024