Cardinal Timothy Dolan revealed this week that Vice President Kamala Harris has not changed her mind and will snub the Al Smith charity dinner on Thursday night despite repeated attempts to get her to come.
Harris, who has an extensive history of anti-Christian bias, will instead just submit a pre-recorded video that will be played at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.
Typically, presidential nominees from both parties attend the dinner and engage in some self-deprecating humor and light roasting of their opponent.
“This year will be imbalanced because, sadly, Kamala Harris isn’t coming,” Dolan said this week. “It’s a shame because the nature of the evening is to bring people together. The nature of the evening is civility, patriotism, humor. It’s not a campaign speech. It’s not a campaign stop.”
He said he was upset she refused to attend because “we’ve missed an evening to access something sorely needed now that even she articulates rather eloquently: that we’ve got to turn the page on bitterness.”
“It’s not a roast. There’s teasing, big time teasing,” he added. “A lot of laughs. But, but it’s – it’s a grand evening. … A lot of people think it’s a Catholic campaign stop. Not really, no. I would say the evening is reflective of New York demographics.”
“It’s not a Republican crowd. It’s not a Democratic crowd,” he said. “It’s kind of evenly split.”
Trump responded to Harris’ decision to not show up by posting on Truth Social: “Just found out that Lyin’ Kamala is doing a video message tonight instead of being at the Al Smith Dinner.”
“She shouldn’t be allowed to do a video message,” he said. “Kamala should be there like almost every other Presidential Candidate in their History, except Walter Mondale, who lost 49-1. They didn’t give me the option of a video message, nor would I have done it. This is very disrespectful to everyone involved. She should be here, or lose the Catholic Vote!”
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan revealed this week that Vice President Kamala Harris has not changed her mind and will snub the Al Smith charity dinner on Thursday night despite repeated attempts to get her to come.
Harris, who has an extensive history of anti-Christian bias, will instead just submit a pre-recorded video that will be played at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.
Typically, presidential nominees from both parties attend the dinner and engage in some self-deprecating humor and light roasting of their opponent.
“This year will be imbalanced because, sadly, Kamala Harris isn’t coming,” Dolan said this week. “It’s a shame because the nature of the evening is to bring people together. The nature of the evening is civility, patriotism, humor. It’s not a campaign speech. It’s not a campaign stop.”
He said he was upset she refused to attend because “we’ve missed an evening to access something sorely needed now that even she articulates rather eloquently: that we’ve got to turn the page on bitterness.”
“It’s not a roast. There’s teasing, big time teasing,” he added. “A lot of laughs. But, but it’s – it’s a grand evening. … A lot of people think it’s a Catholic campaign stop. Not really, no. I would say the evening is reflective of New York demographics.”
“It’s not a Republican crowd. It’s not a Democratic crowd,” he said. “It’s kind of evenly split.”
Trump responded to Harris’ decision to not show up by posting on Truth Social: “Just found out that Lyin’ Kamala is doing a video message tonight instead of being at the Al Smith Dinner.”
“She shouldn’t be allowed to do a video message,” he said. “Kamala should be there like almost every other Presidential Candidate in their History, except Walter Mondale, who lost 49-1. They didn’t give me the option of a video message, nor would I have done it. This is very disrespectful to everyone involved. She should be here, or lose the Catholic Vote!”
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