Dana Bash asked about her day-one agenda. Harris appeared flummoxed. “There are a number of things,” she answered followed by very little in terms of
Thirty-nine days after launching her presidential bid, Kamala Harris finally allowed a journalist to interview her. Her decisions to bring along an emotional support human in Tim Walz and choose a no-Republicans-need-apply network in CNN reinforce the perception that she fears unscripted, uncontrolled environments.
Dana Bash asked about her day-one agenda. Harris appeared flummoxed. “There are a number of things,” she answered followed by very little in terms of specifics. When pressed, she talked, again, in a general sense, of “implementing my plan,” “investing in the American family,” and “a number of things on day one.”
She started an answer on her fracking flip-flop: “Let’s be clear: my values have not changed.” An honest translation might go something life: “Let’s be convoluted: political expediency is my ultimate value.” The talking-points mantra, relied at various points, clearly was “my values have not changed,” which perhaps works better as a retort than “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
Her shortest answer worked as her best. When Bash asked her about Donald Trump’s calling into question her identity as a black woman, Harris offered: “Same old tired playbook.
