Kamala Harris supporters are spinning her big CNN interview as a smashing success but the reality is that it was a flop that only highlighted her faults, including her tendency to serve up borderline incomprehensible word salads.
On Thursday CNN’s Dana Bash sat down with the Democrat nominee and her running mate, truth-challenged Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for her first major interview since being installed as Joe Biden’s replacement after he was taken out in a Nancy Pelosi-orchestrated coup.
In the 18 minutes of the edited-down interview that didn’t air live, Harris often gave rambling answers, and one MSNBC analyst noted that her “vulnerabilities” were “laid bare” which could be a big problem with convincing swing voters that she’s up to the task of running the country.
(Video: MSNBC)
On Friday, former RNC communications director Doug Heye joined MSNBC host Ryan Nobles and former Democrat Congresswoman Donna Edwards to break down the previous night’s interview.
After Edwards predictably gushed praise for the DEI veep’s answer to Bash over GOP nominee Donald J. Trump’s remarks suggesting that she only started playing up her black heritage when she became a national figure, Heye doused enthusiasm with his expert observation along with a historical comparison.
“What Kamala Harris struggles with quite often is she gets asked a question and she gives a very long answer that goes in a million directions and is sort of this very large word salad that you can’t extrapolate, what is she saying there?” Heye said while rating her response to the Trump question as “pitch perfect.”
Heye also likened Harris to Democrat icon Ted Kennedy whose presidential bid to unseat Jimmy Carter as the nominee in 1980 was undone because of the Massachusetts liberal’s own word salads.
“I thought back to 1980 when Ted Kennedy was asked a very simple question: why are you running for president? And it took him three minutes to not answer the question, which is a basic one,” he said. “Harris gets caught up in this a whole lot where you just end up scratching your head, saying, what is she trying to say here? And that was a lot of what we saw last night.”
“She did some of the things she needed to, but the vulnerabilities that she has in these kinds of interviews, I think, was laid bare very early in that conversation,” Heye added.
She was well-prepped and responded with…this?
Ted Kennedy 1980 “why are you running for re-election?” vibes. https://t.co/aU9TPYyf1b
— Doug Heye (@DougHeye) August 30, 2024
“She was well-prepped and responded with…this?” Heye asked in a post to X, sharing one of Harris’ rambling non-answers. “Ted Kennedy 1980 ‘why are you running for re-election?’ vibes.
Meanwhile, some are wondering what didn’t make the cut for the Harris-Walz interview portion that emerged from the editing process and are calling for the rest of it to be released, or at the very least, a transcript.
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