The contentious interview has sparked lively debate on both sides of the political spectrum.
Pete Wehner, a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, wrote on X that Kamala Harris «dominated» Fox News host Bret Baier during an interview on Wednesday.
«My take: Bret Baier has rarely looked as bad (or tendentious) as he did in his interview with Kamala Harris», Wehner wrote on X. «On the flip side, this was one of her best interviews. She dominated Bret. All in all it was quite a bad day for MAGA world’s most important media outlet», Wehner posted on X
Harris and Baier shared a combative 30-minute exchange in her first formal interview on the right-leaning network, in an outreach to conservative or independent voters in the closing weeks of the election. Baier grilled her on the Biden administration’s handling of immigration, the Middle East and the economy.
The exchanges grew especially heated on topics such as immigration. Baier repeatedly pressed Harris on the Biden administration’s reversal of restrictive Trump-era policies, to which she responded by blaming Republicans for blocking a bipartisan immigration bill, which Trump encouraged Senators to vote down in February.
When discussing the economy and Biden’s record, Harris pushed back, asking Baier to conduct a «conversation grounded in full assessment of the facts.»
At one point, when Harris was describing Trump recently saying he would use the military against the political left, who he called «the enemy within», Baier rolled footage of Trump describing the backlash against those comments as an exaggeration. In the clip, Trump accused Democrats of threatening him with «phony investigations» and the «weaponization of government.»
Trump’s initial controversial statement, which he was responding to in Baier’s clip, was when he was asked whether he thought election day would be peaceful.
