harped on

That the flubbed, quickly retracted line has been harped on by the Trump campaign for days has struck many political observers and experts as the height of hypocrisy, given that it has been Trump’s own steady stream of aggressive and offensive remarks that has repeatedly raised the temperature of the race and made it feel volatile.

“So just being a positive guy, a high-confidence guy, IQ guy. I think, I’m vocal. Me being vocal in the short time I’ve been here this summer, I think he kinda recognized it and harped on it a little more than normal. Just ‘keep that going.

He’s praised the “Twitter Files” and the Musk era of the website, has harped on his vaccine questions and invective against Dr. Anthony Fauci, and taken bizarre “middle ground” positions on just about everything from abortion to Jan. 6 to the “TikTok ban.”

It was while she breathlessly touted spending “the money to build a phenomenal supercomputer,” something that “no other state has done,” that she harped on New York’s opportunity to be “the best” and then stumbled into her unfortunate remark, as recorded by Gothamist’s Jon Campbell:

“That’s the key to success and is something we have harped on and is the reason we are on this little run.”