Neil Cavuto disputes Trump campaign claim that Harris called Biden a racist
Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto has made a habit recently of disputing claims made by President Trump. Just last month, Cavuto cut away from a Trump speech to correct the president on claims he'd just made about the Obama economy. In May, Cavuto warned his audience against the use of hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID-19 after Trump touted the unproven drug in a press briefing. On Tuesday, it wasn't the president, but rather the Trump campaign that Cavuto felt the need to correct. Following the announcement that Kamala Harris would be Joe Biden's running mate, the campaign released a statement claiming, among other things, that Harris had called Biden a racist. Cavuto clarified, "She never did."
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NEIL CAVUTO: By the way, the real quick clarification I just want to get, I mean, the president seems to [? be ?] [? calling-- ?] saying that Kamala Harris had called Joe Biden a racist, she never did.
- Shortly after Kamala Harris was announced as Joe Biden's pick for vise president, Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto fact checked a statement released by the Trump campaign claiming Harris had called Biden a racist. The statement also claimed that Harris would try to appease the anti-police extremists in the party, which Cavuto also corrected.
NEIL CAVUTO: Well, as a former prosecutor, if anything, Kamala Harris was getting heat from many African-Americans of the party and others is that she was a little too tough on crime and that sort of thing, and that it would--
JOHN ROBERTS: Yeah. True.
NEIL CAVUTO: --negate being a running mate. So in a way, be careful what you criticize.
- Despite Harris's past friction with progressives, Fox News White House correspondent Jon Roberts predicted the Trump campaign would continue to try to paint a different picture.
JOHN ROBERTS: She ran afoul of progressives, and yet the Trump campaign is portraying her as someone who is an adherent to progressive ideology. And not just progressive ideology, but radical left ideology. So they're painting her as way left.
That's the way that Trump is going to fight this campaign.
- And just hours later on "Hannity," that's exactly what President Trump did.
DONALD TRUMP: I think, you know, she's the most liberal person supposedly in the Senate. That's pretty liberal. But she's supposed to be the most.
