CNN’s Dana Bash discussed former President Donald Trump’s Atlanta rally over the weekend and asked the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman to weigh in on Trump attacking the Republican governor of Georgia – and his wife.

Bash played a clip of Trump ripping into Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her “low IQ” and added, “Okay going after your opponent on the other side of the aisle, the person you’re running against. That makes sense.”

“Attacking a popular fellow Republican?” Bash then questioned and played a clip of Trump saying:

Your governor, Kemp, and Raffensperger are doing everything possible to make 2024 difficult for Republicans to win. Kemp is very bad for the Republican Party. He wouldn’t do anything. He could have ended the travesty with a phone call because I did nothing wrong.

“He also called Governor Kemp a bad and disloyal guy. And Maggie, Kemp released a tweet, I believe it was where he said, Mr. President, stay away from my family because he also said something about his wife. Please stay focused on Kamala Harris,” Bash asked Haberman.

“Yeah. I mean, the going after the wife was sort of the cherry on the top of this whole attack. I mean, what we saw this weekend in that rally and frankly, what we saw at the NABJ event, was the mean-spiritedness that has been around him. He often is very mean in his attacks. There is a different level of it that we have seen basically since he lost the 2020 election,” Haberman replied, adding:

And it’s been harder to discern because he hasn’t been as public or he got indicted in that rally, the Republican field. But this was sort of more evocative of January 2021 than anything that we have seen in the last year. And this is what he does when he feels like he’s cornered or threatened. That’s right. And so you are you are seeing all of that.

You know, nobody needs to wonder whether he is concerned about the state of this race. Just look at what he’s saying on the trail. Part of what his advisers hope he will do is frame an attack against the vice president as fake. And you’ve seen him do some of that in his rallies. He did say that. But then it veers into all this other stuff, and it feels it veers into racist statements about whether she’s actually black and, that is at risk for him of reminding swing voters what they did not like about him and why they didn’t vote for him in 2020.

“Yeah. I mean, all the talk about Trump amnesia is gone. People have their memories back,” Bash replied.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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