Why Dems Probably Don't Want Terry McAuliffe Doing Anymore Interviews at the DNC

If you want to have a top surrogate defending the Harris-Walz ticket, then former Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe isn’t your man. He’s not evil, but the governor didn’t have the best outing defending the record of the 2024 Democratic ticket. For starters, McAuliffe wasn’t going to be able to sell the talking points with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, who is also a close friend. 

At times, McAuliffe was not on board with the party platform either. Hannity pressed him on the issue of abortion and how extreme the Democrats have become since Bill Clinton’s ‘safe, legal, and rare’ days. Democrats were never a fully pro-life party, though a substantial number of them had identified as such historically. Hannity highlighted how Democrats want abortion on-demand, taxpayer-funded, and up to the point of birth. McAuliffe said that’s not the true party position before lying about how Trump’s Supreme Court took that freedom away from women. Abortion hasn’t been criminalized in the United States. It’s still legal, always has been, but now states have more latitude regarding restrictions. That’s an entirely different debate. Hannity came out in favor of a 15-week ban, which McAuliffe seems to think was a more reasonable position than a six-week ban.