Former RNC chairman stops himself from going too far as he condemns 'heinous' Republican attack

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele reacted angrily to Republicans' jabs at Kamala Harris's blended family, calling the attacks disgusting and politically idiotic.

“You sit there scratching your head and thinking, 'Is it me or are they just stupid? Is it me or are they just rude and crude and mean in their approach to the way I go about my life, the way I work to bring a family together?'” Steele, an MSNBC political analyst, said Thursday on “Deadline: White House.”

“There's no harder work than for a mother or father to get divorced, remarry, and try to put a family together with the idea of ​​being a family,” he continued. “And now they're saying that women aren't fulfilled or competent or capable if they don't have children? That a family isn't a family unless it's a mother and a father who get married and never divorce.”

As Steele defended the many different types of families across the country, he had to be careful not to get too carried away on the show.

“Even if you don’t have children, you are still a family – as husband and husband, wife [and] Wife, husband and wife – whatever your family is,” he said.

“And I don't need these,” he continued, stopping mid-sentence. “I'll be good, because it's four o'clock in the afternoon.”

“I don't need these – let me put it this way – assholes telling me what my family is and how I raise my children, or looking at my family and judging them. That's not your place,” he added.

Harris is a stepmother to two children with her husband, Doug Emhoff. Republicans have criticized her for not having biological children.

In 2021, Donald Trump's running mate, Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio), said Harris and other Democrats without biological children could not be good leaders because they had no “direct stake” in the country.

Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at a Trump town hall event on Tuesday that her children kept her humble, adding, “Unfortunately, there is nothing about Kamala Harris that keeps her humble.”

Watch Steele's analysis on MSNBC below.

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