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It was a cringe-inducing second.
Nobody anticipated Kamala Harris to be grilled on “The View,” comprised of cheerleaders for her candidacy.
However Whoopi Goldberg launched her by bellowing “the subsequent president of the US,” it was a slap-your-forehead second.” Critically?
The entire session yesterday was an in-kind contribution to the Harris marketing campaign.
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I do know, they’re not straight journalists, they’re liberal commentators slash entertainers. They learn their questions verbatim off blue playing cards. That’s exactly why she needed to do the present.
There have been some affordable questions: How would her presidency differ from Joe Biden’s? How would she deal with the border? Why wouldn’t Ron DeSantis take her calls about hurricane preparations with a Class 4 storm about to hit Florida?
After which there was Pleasure Behar, who went on about Trump’s lies and requested how anybody might probably assist him. That enabled the Vice President to say Trump was all about private grievances, not the voters.
Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on Tuesday’s episode of “The View.” (ABC)
Kamala made good use of the discussion board, resembling dishing on how she was understanding and together with her youngsters when Joe Biden referred to as to say he was stepping apart.
Backside line: “The View,” an ABC program based by Barbara Walters – it’s nonetheless within the information division – was much more embarrassing than I anticipated, with the women falling throughout themselves to reward Harris and trash Trump.
Some affordable questions had been requested, however Kamala ran circles round them and deflected what she did not wish to reply whereas getting her acquainted speaking factors in.
It was a superb discussion board for her, and for as soon as she got here ready to make information. In a transfer earlier leaked to Politico, Harris made her pitch for having Medicare reimburse caring for the aged at house as a substitute of solely in costly establishments – the primary new coverage proposal she’s made in weeks. She stated she would pay for it by demanding deeper reductions on sure medication paid for by Medicare. Evidently, she was not precisely cross-examined on the topic.
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The women appeared awed that Kamala Harris was even there.
It was a really totally different Kamala who appeared on a “60 Minutes” prime-time particular aired the night time earlier than.
To make sure, the information journal present repeated a few of her criticisms of Trump, with Invoice Whitaker saying: “You’ve got accused Donald Trump of utilizing racist tropes in the case of Haitian immigrants. In Springfield, Ohio. On the subject of birtherism, in the case of Charlottesville, in reality, you’ve referred to as him a racist and divisive, but Donald Trump has the assist of hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of People.”
The veep’s talking-point response: “I imagine that the folks of America need a chief who’s not attempting to divide us and demean.”
However Whitaker was a bulldog when it got here to asking for followups time and again when the Democratic nominee supplied generalities.
CBS Information seems to have made a positive edit to its “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. (Screenshot/CBS Information)
When requested concerning the Committee for a Accountable Federal Finances saying her plan would add $3 trillion over the subsequent decade – it was a lot increased for Trump – Harris talked about economists liking her plan and pivoted to praising small enterprise.
Whitaker’s response: “Pardon me, Madam Vice President. The query was, how are you going to pay for it?”
This time, Harris stated she’d be sure that billionaires and large companies must pay their “fair proportion,” and Whitaker expressed skepticism that Congress would approve that.
This was the query that Harris hasn’t actually needed to reply.
“Let me let you know what your critics and the columnists say, okay? They are saying that the explanation so many citizens do not know you is that you’ve got modified your place on so many issues,” stated Whitaker. “You had been towards fracking. Now you are for it. You supported looser immigration insurance policies, now you are tightening them up. You’re for Medicare for All. Now you are not so many that folks do not really know what you imagine or what you stand for.”
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Harris supplied this reply: “Within the final 4 years I’ve been vice chairman, United States. And I’ve been touring our nation. And I’ve been listening to people and looking for what is feasible by way of widespread floor. I imagine in constructing consensus.” Translation: The world has modified and I’ve to be lifelike about what I can get handed.
The interview was so closely edited that you may see the modifications a number of occasions as Harris magically restricted her solutions to 2 sentences. That’s the overproduced “60 Minutes” model, however I believe it was a mistake. CBS ought to have run the entire thing, or a significant chunk of it, unedited.
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Scott Pelley stated Trump had agreed to an interview however backed out with shifting explanations, together with that there be no fact-checking.
By yesterday afternoon, Kamala was taping her interview with Howard Stern, who liked Trump again within the day once they had been ranking girls and has been completely against him as a candidate and president.
Reacting to Bob Woodward’s forthcoming e book saying Trump secretly despatched Vladimir Putin a COVID check machine throughout the pandemic – which the previous president denies – the VP stated: “I imagine that Donald Trump has this want to be a dictator. He admires strongmen and he will get performed by them as a result of he thinks that they’re his mates and they’re manipulating him full-time and manipulating him by flattery and with favor…
“This man who’s President of the US is sending them to Russia? To a murderous dictator for his private use?”
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Stern referred to as it “maddening” and “madness” that anybody would assist Donald Trump. He instructed Harris he would vote for her, however might additionally vote for “that wall over there” over the ex-president.
Harris is lastly beginning to make some information. Think about if she’d began a few of these interviews weeks in the past.
Howard Kurtz is the host of FOX Information Channel’s MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ET). Based mostly in Washington, D.C., he joined the community in July 2013 and repeatedly seems on Particular Report with Bret Baier and different packages.
