freebeacon.com Campaign gamble seems ill-advised in retrospect as Democrats complain of Brett Baier’s ‘rude’ questioning
Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign staff could not have expected her to perform well in an interview with Bret Baier on Fox News. Couldn’t they? The candidate performed as many expected. It’s no wonder her aides were so desperate to end it. Harris was repeatedly flustered while attempting to recite talking points as Baier interjected with fact checks and follow ups—standard fare for every Republican politician who appears on “mainstream” networks. She attacked Donald Trump for refusing to “take responsible [sic] for what happened in [his] administration” yet refused to take responsibility for the American public’s overwhelming displeasure after nearly four years under the Biden-Harris administration.
Throughout the exchange, which grew combative at times, Harris repeated campaign talking points about how Americans were “ready to turn the page” and “chart a new way forward” as if Trump was currently in charge. Baier asked why Harris, who actually was in charge, would say that. Harris’s response quickly went off the rails and ended with an awkward exchange reminiscent of the infamous NBC News interview in which she struggled to explain why she hadn’t been to the border.
“Well, first of all, turning the page from the last decade in which we have been burdened with the kind of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump that has been designed and implemented to divide our country,” she said. Baier pointed out once again that Harris, not Trump, was currently in office. “And Donald Trump has been running for office since, come on, you and I both know what I’m talking about,” Harris replied. (Baier made clear that he did not.)
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