(OPINION) ETH – The most talked-about topic from Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and California Sen. Kamala Harris was when a fly unexpectedly landed on Pence’s head during the debate. The event blew up all over social media sites and likely will end up on a skit on Saturday Night Live.
However, there were some people that saw the event to be far more sinister and even an omen. Anti-Trump political strategist Steve Schmidt took to MSNBC to quickly make the connection between Mike Pence to Satan. According to Theblaze, Steve Schmidt is most famous for leading John McCain’s failed 2008 presidential run against Barack Obama, and renounced the GOP in 2018, calling it a party of “feckless cowards” because of its support for President Donald Trump.
He went on to say he would push for Democratic majorities in Congress. Apparently, his hatred for the entire Trump administration led him to co-found the Lincoln Project, a Super PAC created by former Republicans determined to take down Trump in 2020.
Schmidt appeared on MSNBC Wednesday night after the debate to blast Pence’s performance as “blustering” and “weird.” “If this was a normal debate, his behavior would have been scored very, very poorly,” Schmidt said. “It would have been on the higher end of weird behavior.”
The Lincoln Project’s Steve Schmidt says the fly that landed on Mike Pence during the debate last night is a "sign historically of sin" and the "mark of the devil.”
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He then made the Beelzebub (literally “lord of flies”) connection by saying: “I don’t think it’s ever a good sign when a fly lands on your head for two minutes. That’s a sign all through the history of sin,” Schmidt continued. “He who commands the flies has always been seen historically as the mark of the devil,” he said.
Even the host on MSNBC asked if Schmidt was joking and noted that the fly could have landed on anyone. “But it didn’t. It landed on Mike Pence, and it says something … karmic about the status of the campaign” the anti-Trumper continued, noting that the Trump-Pence ticket was “imploding” and “cratering.” I guess Mr.Schmidt forgot about flies also landing on both Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama.