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Former GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy turned into a defensive and evasive mess Sunday when confronted with false remarks by his party’s presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump, that his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, is “mentally disabled.”
CNN Inside Politics host Manu Raju played McCarthy clips from a Trump rally in Wisconsin Saturday, where he said, “Joe Biden became mentally impaired, Kamala was born that way, she was born that way,” before going on to say “only a mentally disabled person” could have pursued the policies of the Biden-Harris administration.
Raju asked McCarthy if he thought it was an effective line of attack. McCarthy at first had no answer, acknowledging it’s “100 percent true” that Trump said what he said before refusing to discuss what Trump said.
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