BOLDUAN: Nikki Haley does not like the demeaning comments that Trump has made about Kamala Harris, and she said as much yesterday in an interview. Let me play this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) NIKKI HALEY, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think it’s because Donald Trump and J.D. Vance need to change the way they speak about women. You don’t need to call Kamala dumb. She didn’t get this far just by accident. She’s here. That’s what it is. She’s a prosecutor. You don’t need to go and talk about intelligence or looks or anything else. Just focus on the policies. When you call even a Democrat woman dumb, Republican women get their backs up, too.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BOLDUAN: Do you agree with Nikki Haley?

ALVAREZ: Well, I think the issues should be the focus tonight, but the reality is that Kamala Harris’s failures on issues is the reason why she is incompetent, whether she’s a man or a woman.

BOLDUAN: Right, and that’s what Nikki Haley is saying. You agree that it doesn’t help Donald Trump when she calls him — when he calls her dumb?

ALVAREZ: I think it’s important to call a spade a spade. I think Kamala Harris is absolutely incompetent for the failures of the last three-and-a-half years.