Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren sent out a derogatory tweet during last night’s debate, accusing California Senator (and Democratic presidential candidate) Kamala Harris of “sleeping her way to the top” with a longtime California politician.
Kamala did you fight for ideals or did you sleep your way to the top with Willie Brown?
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) August 1, 2019
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At least three of Lahren’s female Fox News colleagues have spoken out against her sentiment:
If a male contributor had tweeted this they would probably be suspended with a trip to HR. Pretty disgusting, Tomi. Are clicks and retweets worth demeaning women? Would you do the same to a “conservative” female candidate?
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) August 1, 2019
I am curious to know what you think bringing a woman’s personal/sexual life into this accomplishes. Men do that to us enough as it is. I’m honestly asking. https://t.co/MgO0yMrAHT
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) August 1, 2019
Do you have any idea how damaging this is to women who’ve actually been sexually harassed, assaulted or demeaned in the workplace? How much this weakens our own gender, regardless of partisanship. My goodness.
— Britt McHenry (@BrittMcHenry) August 1, 2019
We have reached out to Fox News for comment on Lahren’s tweet, and will update this item when we receive additional information.
UPDATE (9:25 a.m. ET): Lahren has now apologized for last night’s tweets:
I apologize for my comment on Kamala’s personal relationship. It was the wrong choice of words. There are many other things to take her to task for and I will stick to those.
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) August 1, 2019