Ted Cruz Cautions GOP About Underestimating Kamala Harris

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) cautions the GOP not to underestimate Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the presumptive Democrat nominee for president, as most Democrat politicians coalesced behind her, and donors have raised 81 million dollars in the first 24 hours of Harris’ presidential bid.

Some believe Harris will be an easier matchup for Trump-Vance, while others believe Biden was the easier matchup. However, Cruz, who served with Harris in the U.S. Senate, had a warning for the GOP on his podcast called “The Verdict.” He said:

Republicans, I worry, vastly underestimate Kamala Harris. They don’t think very highly of her. They don’t think she’s terribly bright. When you or I bring up Kamala Harris’ name in Republican circles, people laugh. It’s immediately a punchline. I think people are underestimating what billions of dollars of free media of the entire corrupt corporate media complex, pitching her as a combination of Mother Teresa, Oprah and Gandhi.

Cruz reiterated that he believes Trump will win in November, but it will not be a lopsided result, as some are predicting:

Now, I still think Trump wins in November. But this is not a layup. It is not given. And what’s coming in front of us look, if you’re a Democrat, what makes you nervous is chaos, and this much chaos 100 days out is scary. But you know what? Even more scary is going into an election where you’re almost certain to lose, which is where Biden was.

Republican voters can’t get complacent. The polls show that Trump will win in November, whether he faces Harris or any of the other Democrat options being floated around, but polls don’t vote; people do. Harris and the down-ballot candidates will be defeated by registering more voters to vote for Trump-Vance and reminding everybody you know to vote in droves while highlighting the Biden-Harris administration’s failed policies.

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Cruz continued, saying he was worried that people were “overconfident” at the RNC. He said that now is not the time for celebrations; those will come after Election Day. 

I was very worried at the convention. … I am afraid people were overconfident at the convention. There was an air of celebration. It was, ‘We’ve won. We’re on to victory. This is a landslide. Trump’s coming back in. We’ve got a huge Republican majority.’

Look, there’s a time for celebration. Celebrate after Election Day, celebrate after we’ve won. Now is not the time for celebration. Now’s the time for hard work. Now’s the time for rolling up your sleeves and going to win.

From her failures as a “border czar” to her voting record being more left-wing than Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), these are all points that will be highlighted as the election season gets closer. The base is energized, but what matters is how long that hype actually lasts. We know Trump’s base is going to vote for him, no matter what, in November. 

The key is to convince voters in the suburbs and Rust Belt states to vote for their candidate and list the reasons why. If those voters are open-minded, the case for voting for Trump is much stronger than voting for Harris.