The major news outlets either didn’t cover Vice President Kamala Harris’s first interview by herself in the eight weeks since she started running for president, or they said it was a big success when it wasn’t.
Harris talked to Philadelphia’s WPVI-TV, also known as 6 ABC. She had a hard time keeping her thoughts straight as reporter Brian Taff asked her five simple questions.
After ABC News moderators agreed with Harris in last week’s discussion, her team put its faith in a local ABC affiliate. There may have been a lack of time, but Taff asked specific questions and did not follow up on Harris’s replies.
Harris talked about her apparently middle-class childhood and how her neighbors took care of their lawns when asked about specific policies that would lower costs and make life cheaper for Americans.
Harris finally hit on a talking point about a “opportunity economy” after a few minutes of speaking. She talked about plans for a tax credit for businesses and aid for first-time home buyers with their down payments.
Harris had another hard time when asked what made her plans different from Joe Biden. She brought up the fact that she is younger than Joe Biden and called herself part of “a new generation of American leadership.” She also talked about the “opportunity economy” again. The rest of her answer didn’t make sense.
Harris only gave a somewhat clear answer once, and it was contradictory: “We are not taking anyone’s guns away,” she said, but then she backed a law that would do just that (an “assault weapons ban”).
Many people are worried that Harris won’t be able to answer naturally occurring questions. The interview also made it seem like her debate performance last week, which many people thought was good, was based on practiced responses. Harris actually avoided answering many of the questions asked of her during the debate, including the first one, which asked, “Do you think Americans are better off economically than they were four years ago?”
The major news outlets either didn’t report on Harris’s terrible interview or lied about what happened.
Vice-President Kamala Harris sat down for her second tv interview since she jumped in the race as the presidential candidate.
The interview was with Brian Taff of Philadelphia’s Action News 6 ABC.
Here is the entire interview. pic.twitter.com/d9nR2iFTUz
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) September 13, 2024
“Kamala Harris Promises “New Generation Of American Leadership” In First Solo Interview Since Becoming A Candidate,” Deadline wrote about the interview.
Dom Patten, a reporter, said that Harris “stayed true to her talking points and focused on her points for the economy, giving American workers a leg up, gun ownership, and lowering crime.”
(The interview didn’t talk about lowering crime, and Patten didn’t notice that Harris mostly avoided the question of how to make life cheaper.)
