Vice President and Democratic Party nominee for President Kamala Harris sat down for an interview on Fox News with Bret Baier. Watch the full interview for yourself here, and discuss in the comments:
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Baier: Damn, he tried to interrupt her a lot. I liked that he pressed her on several points and make clear to viewers where she was dodging his questions. And she did dodge several questions.
Harris: the election is all vibes to low information voters now, and the vibes to that interview were she stood up to him and held her ground. She looked and sounded Presidential, tough, strong. The low information voter will not discern whether she dodged questions or answered them: such a person will hear assertiveness and probably like it.Report
I think her audience was twofold.
Audience one is the broader media. No one can say any longer that she is too afraid or unpolished to go into an unfriendly environment.
Audience two is any of those Haley voters looking for permission not to vote for Trump. I have no idea how she came off to them, but at minimum I saw no obvious gaffes and while she didn’t hit any grand slams or anything she operated at the level of a normal politician in these formats.
Who knows if it means anything for the election but I’d say it went successfully, as far as its aims were concerned.Report
The thing is, a lot of the criticism of Harris has been “she’s not able to talk“. And maybe internets who only interact through a keyboard and quaintly think that they’re good at Theory Of Mind because they can imagine a person talking figure that shouldn’t matter, but it does matter. And in that interview she directly addressed this criticism.Report
He has no respect for a successful, articulate black woman. An she is getting better at actually answering questions, even if all the answers were redirections.Report
Just saw Lawrence O’Donnell from MSNBC offering his thoughts on the debate and they’re remarkable for a couple of reasons. First for playing the actual “enemies from within” remarks compared to the soft shit Baier tried to serve up. Second because it’s a weird thing for a generally left-of-center commentator to be tackling the media establishment. Even if it is Fox News.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-bret-baier-lied-and-kamala-harris-forcefully-responds-221955141607Report
I’m not surprised he did it.Report
LOL: Fox News interviewed Bret Baier to ask him what HE thought of the interview. Guess what his opinion is.
https://youtu.be/QPO9Ua1ZPFU?si=nTWr0sFhvhokdr3wReport
There’s reporting that it had 7.1 Million views – which is well above the TFG town hall that same day at 4.6 million. I’d say he got what he wanted in terms of ratings.Report
Having reviewed it I think she did herself no significant harm and potentially some good. We also can now bury and retire the nonsensical notion that Harris avoids challenging media encounters.Report
Looking forward to the conspiracy-theory dudes telling us how Fox News was paid off by the Democrats to let this interview go the way it did.Report