Kamala Harris Flunked the Job Interviews
Kamala Harris gave the silent treatment to the press for over a month to start her campaign. She ends it by squeezing in interviews with everybody from Bret Baier to Charlamagne tha God.
The change in strategy tacitly acknowledges a change in fortune.
The Harris campaign wishfully imagined the new-car smell of their candidate lasted. So, they started the game in a kneel-on-the-ball victory formation. Now that Donald Trump ties or beats the Democratic nominee in several reputable national polls (and he looks better in the Electoral College than in the popular vote), the imprudence of that strategy seems glaringly clear.
The surge of interviews, after blowing them off for so long, emits desperation. And the Democratic nominee’s thin gruel served up as answers illustrates one of the reasons her handlers forbade her for so long from the normal activities of one running for president.
After waiting 39 days to sit for an interview, Harris appeared with her Tim Walz security blanket and chose CNN, essentially an auxiliary of her campaign, to conduct it. The network taped the conversation between Dana Bash, Harris, and Walz. When Bash asked her that most basic of questions for a presidential candidate — what do you plan to do on day one? — the vice president set the vacuous tone she would maintain in her subsequent interviews. “There are a number of things,” she replied. How great a “number”? What “things”?
Her appearance on the popular Call Her Daddy podcast in the wake of Hurricane Helene proved to be bad optics. The View served up the easy question of how her administration might differ from the unpopular Biden administration; she could not George H. W. Bush it by coming up with her own version of “a kinder, gentler nation” or do as Hubert Humphrey did during the tail end of the 1968 campaign by showing space on Vietnam between himself and Lyndon Johnson. When a Charlamagne tha God listener asked whether she supported reparations, it appeared like the perfect Sister Souljah moment — to everyone save one conditioned by a childhood in Berkeley and Montreal, an education at Howard, and a political coming of age in San Francisco. Her refusal to shoot down the unpopular and idiotic idea, and instead lamely claiming it must be “studied,” shows she fears the Left more than she does the American mainstream.
Instead of experiencing Donald Trump’s Lesley Stahl treatment on 60 Minutes, Harris received the assist from the left-wing program of a selectively edited interview that cleaned up her jumblespeak. Stephen Colbert drank a Miller Lite with her on The Late Show. Howard Stern, in the first five minutes of his interview, asked the woman who could be president: “Do you nap at all?,” “Did you ever meet Prince in real life?,” and “I don’t want you being made fun of — there’s too much at stake.… How did you react to the Saturday Night Live bit?”
So, when Bret Baier began his line of questioning on Fox News with, “How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released into the country over the last three and a half years?,” Harris appeared shellshocked and how-dare-you aghast. Ditto for when he asked her when she realized the president had slipped cognitively. At other points in the discussion, particularly when speaking about her opponent, the vice president exuded anger.
Why did he not ask about naps, hand her a beer from the ghetto end of the liquor store cooler, or punctuate her answers (as Oprah Winfrey did) with “amen to that”?
She filibustered throughout, and Baier later revealed that her handlers abbreviated the time allotted for the interview, that Harris arrived so late as to necessarily limit their discussion, and that, despite all that, several aides waved no mas signals to him to end the discussion. They effectively agreed to 15 rounds but stayed in the ring for eight.
One blames not primarily the handlers for this disastrous performance but Oprah Winfrey, Howard Stern, Stephen Colbert, and other sycophants for ill-preparing Harris for the inevitable hardballs by throwing her beachballs.
Just as brazenly pushing their hands down on the scales immunizes Trump from their criticism, the media taking a creampuff approach to Harris ensured Wednesday’s disaster on the most-watched cable channel. As a wise man once sang, “You’ve gotta be cruel to be kind.”
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