Neil Cavuto tries to shame Sen. Kennedy for calling Kamala a 'ding dong': 'Let me say it again...'

Fox News’s Neil Cavuto confronted Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) about insulting Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Kennedy, known for his creative style of speaking, joined ‘Your World With Neil Cavuto’ on Monday and the topic turned to Harris.

“Those that have an opinion on the vice president think that, number one she’s a little bit of a dingdong, she’s not a serious person,” Kennedy said. “They’ve had one vegetable-in-chief, they don’t want another, and they also think that she is a member of the loon wing of the Democratic Party. She’s a San Francisco Democrat. She believes in abortion on demand. She believes that Israel should just give the Palestinians anything that they want. She believes in an open border. She thinks of criminals — or cops are a bigger problem than criminals. She’s proud of what she and the president did in Afghanistan. She believes in strength, our national security strengths are weakness, that if we just sit down with our enemies and have a cup of hot cocoa and give them a hug, that they will be nice to us.”

Cavuto cut Kennedy off to ask him if he thinks being mean to Harris is a good strategy.

“She is running even with Donald Trump, and I’m just wondering about the approach you’re taking and it’s very artful don’t get me wrong, and you raise a lot of substantive issues, it’s gonna come back to bite your hineys, isn’t it? Aren’t you concerned about that?” the host wondered.

“I’m telling you what I think the American people think. It may not be what I think and it may not be what you think. But this is Washington,” Kennedy said.

“Then what do you think of the polls that show that she’s running even with Donald Trump regardless of what either you and I think?” Cavuto pressed.

“The polls I have seen, the most recent polls, you can’t just look at the top lines, Neil, you got to look at the cross tabs. And if you look at the cross tabs and really drill down and see what people think, let me see again, the polling that I’ve seen shows that many Americans think that the vice president is not a serious person, as I’ve said, that she’s a bit of a dingdong. Number two, that she is a member of the loon wing of the Democratic Party, she’s a San Francisco Democrat. She’s just like Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez except without the bartending experience. She’s not mainstream and the point that I was trying to make was that by making her first policy position known on abortion, the idea that we should have a law of says you can have an abortion at any point, no questions asked even up until the moment of birth, I think for most Americans is a loon wing position. That’s just my opinion but that’s also what the polls show.”

Cavuto once again asked how Kennedy thinks this kind of language will “resonate with women.”

“You know, she is called ‘nasty’ and ‘crazy’ and a’ dingdong’ and disrespectful, between you and the president, what has been said about her. I’m just wondering, do you worry how that comes across? And maybe you draw no distinction between a female candidate and a male one, and that’s fair game but that this could hurt you with female voters, with these types of comments?” he grilled.

“Well, let me say it again,” Kennedy replied. “The vice president is the candidate for president of the United States. I don’t care about her gender, Neil, maybe you do, but I don’t. I don’t care about her race-”

“Then why call her a dingdong?” Cavuto cut in to ask.

“I’m telling what the polling shows. I’m telling you what the polling shows. And it does. And I’ll be glad to sit down with you and walk you through the polls-” the senator responded before being cut off.

“Please do because I never know when it’s constructive to call people names, senator, I just- on the left or the right,” Cavuto snarked.

“Well I’m sorry if it hurts your feelings, but let me say it again-” Kennedy was once again cut off.

“Senator, you keep bringing it back back to my feelings. My feelings matter little. All I’m telling you is if you think you can game this November calling people names, I don’t know how far that goes. Left or right. But we’ll see, it’s still early, to your point.”

“Your feelings seem to me like they matter to you a lot Neil, and I’m trying to be objective here, let me say it again-”

“Are you really? Are you really being objective, senator?” Cavuto once again broke in. “I just think you’ve got a bash-a-thon, a name-calling at her, if you call that being objective, I don’t know,” the host said before ending the segment.

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