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Did you catch Kamala Harris’s first “interview” as the Democratic Party nominee for president? It was pretty much everything you’d expect from an interview conducted by CNN. Lots of softball questions, lots of word salad responses.
CNN anchor Dana Bash actually asked some decent questions, but what really struck me about the interview was that Kamala Harris, more often than not, avoided answering most of the questions, and Bash didn’t seem to be concerned with getting an actual answer.
You knew things were going to be bad when Harris really struggled to give a coherent answer to the cliché question about what she would do on “on day one.”
Kamala Harris kicked off her first interview with yet another word salad.
CNN’s DANA BASH: “What would you do on Day 1 in the White House?”
HARRIS: *rambles without answering the question*
BASH: “So what would you do Day 1?” pic.twitter.com/tSaskWxo7s— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 30, 2024
And when Bash asked Kamala why it took so long to do something about the border, Kamala’s answer was just a long mess of poorly connected talking points.
Kamala Harris’s response to being asked why she presided over a record number of illegal border crossings:
“The root causes were that I did as Vice President that I was asked to do by the president has actually resulted in a number of benefits.”
Kamala then continues to… pic.twitter.com/9HorwYjO1Y— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 30, 2024
Before Harris’s interview with CNN, we learned it would only be 18 minutes long—hardly impressive. It’s unclear how long Harris and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz actually spoke with Bash, but it was probably at least an hour. The fact that CNN whittled it down to just 18 minutes suggests they didn’t have much content they were willing to air. Of course, if you caught the preview clip that CNN released, you probably figured that out already and knew it would be a train wreck.
“Generally speaking, how should voters look at some of the changes that you have made, that you have explained some of, here in your policy?” Bash asked.
