There are mixed reviews about VP Kamala Harris’ CNN interview mostly breaking down along party lines but one unbiased expert didn’t find the Democrat nominee’s performance to be convincing.
After weeks of criticism that she hadn’t done a formal interview since she was installed as the replacement for the deeply unpopular dementia-addled President Joe Biden, Harris, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sat down with anchor Dana Bash in a Georgia coffee shop for what would be a heavily-edited down version of their discussion that aired on Thursday.
Not only did Harris show that she’s still got it as the undisputed queen of word salads, but according to one body language expert, she displayed a noticeable lack of “confidence” and “authenticity” during the CNN interview.
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“When I look at her overall demeanor, she does not carry the confidence or the presidential appearance in her demeanor to command in her position,” Susan Constantine told Fox News Digital. “So for everything that I saw last night, she definitely needs to make some tweaks into her body language to appear more confident.”
“The fact that she’s looking down a lot removes a lot of the fluidity and the authenticity,” Constantine added, her expert observation of Harris who frequently looked down at the table and avoided making eye contact with Bash.
“When she struggles, you start to see a lot of the head bobbling. You know, the head bobbling is ‘what part of the file in my subconscious am I going to pull out? Which ones are my answers?’” she said of the vice president. “She couldn’t come up with a crystal clear answer, and that’s why she tends to bobble.”
“When you bobble and waffle like that,” Constantine continued, “that’s another signal that she’s not really… prepared. She doesn’t really have confidence in her own answers.”
“When you’re breaking gaze, that is a form of deflection,” she added. “So when you’re removing an eye gaze, not making good eye contact, it’s just showing me that she’s not confident in what she’s saying.”
Constantine also pointed out that Harris was “consistently looking for acknowledgment” from Walz, whom CNN’s Scott Jennings had mockingly referred to as her “emotional support animal” in a drop-dead description.
Weak sauce for Kamala Harris to demand an emotional support animal for her first interview. Shows an extreme lack of confidence for Thursday night event on @cnn pic.twitter.com/ZrjGF2nNLz
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) August 28, 2024
“She is looking for that signal from Walz to see if he’s on board. Many times when we see him, he’s got the pressed lips — that tends to be a more serious, more collected, expression in his mouth,” she told Fox News Digital.
“Overall, you know, as one woman to another, I would say if you’re going to be a woman in power, you have to look like a woman in power,” Constantine added. “And she doesn’t at this time.”
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