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On Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris was interviewed on Fox News by Bret Baier. Fox News
Here’s our recent coverage of Harris’s increased media appearances. The Flip Side
The left is critical of Baier, and divided about Harris’s performance.
“Harris deserves credit for doing an interview she and her campaign had to know would be a string of ‘gotcha’ questions and attempts to get her to say mean things about Trump supporters… Trump, by comparison, has cancelled a planned CNBC interview and refused to follow Harris’ lead and go on ‘60 Minutes,’ preferring to do things like his Wednesday’s Fox News town hall where he was asked coddling questions before a room full of Trump supporters…
“[Baier’s] questions were pointed, which is fine, and he relentlessly asked follow-up questions, which is also fine. But Baier barely let the sitting vice president get a word in edgewise, talking over her constantly throughout the interview, interrupting her over and over again. Baier went after Harris with a persistence and viciousness his network has never come close to using on Trump.”
Rex Huppke, USA Today
“It was fair and good journalistic practice for Baier to press the vice president about policies that her own administration seems to understand have failed and that have provided terrible optics to the public. But when Baier repeatedly asked Harris if she felt she owed an apology to the families of Rachel Nungaray, Laken Riley and Rachel Morin — three young women allegedly murdered by migrants who crossed the border illegally — his line of questioning turned into demagoguery…
“Harris, for her part, continues to struggle in interviews, holding on to campaign talking points like a life raft. She was particularly unconvincing when asked about President Joe Biden’s declining mental faculties. But she had successful moments Wednesday night, mainly when speaking extemporaneously about specific, indefensible things Trump has done and promised to do… I’m not sure any minds will be changed by this interview.”
Anthony L. Fisher, MSNBC
“Harris should have been better prepared to answer certain predictable questions. When shown the clip of her expressing support for federally financed gender-affirming surgery for migrants in prison, she said she was just following the law, as Donald Trump did in allowing such surgery. ‘Like throwing stones when you’re living in a glass house,’ she said of his attacks…
“Going on offense was necessary, but her response was insufficient. Baier backed into the question with the excuse that he was merely asking about a TV ad; he knew it had nothing to do with being president of the United States. Describing the issue as ‘really quite remote,’ as Harris did, was too oblique of an answer to satisfy a skeptical audience. But throughout most of the interview, Harris appeared forceful and in charge, which is what Americans want to see in their president.”
Jonathan Alter, New York Times
The right is critical of Harris’s performance, arguing that she offered evasive answers.
The right is critical of Harris’s performance, arguing that she offered evasive answers.
“Baier hit the ground running by asking Harris how many illegal immigrants she thought her administration has released to date — ‘One, 2 million?’ Harris replied, ‘It’s an important discussion people want to have,’ and when Baier revealed the number has reached 6 million illegals and asked if Harris regretted the fact that Biden-Harris had reversed Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy, Harris blamed Congress for not passing a bill that would have, according to her, fixed the immigration system…
“Harris then admitted the border has been broken for some time (though she’s also infamously claimed ‘the border is secure’), but that ‘Congress is the only place that this is going to get fixed.’ Baier reminded her of the ninety Trump administration executive orders relating to border security that the Biden-Harris administration rescinded. But again, according to Harris, it all comes down to that gosh-darn border security bill.”
Teresa Mull, Spectator World
“Baier asked: ‘There's a lot of people that look back at what you said in 2019 when you first ran for president, and there have been changes, and you've talked about some of them. When it comes to immigration, you supported allowing immigrants in the country illegally to apply for driver's licenses, to qualify for free tuition at universities, to be enrolled in free healthcare. Do you still support those things?’…
“‘That was five years ago,’ she replied, ‘and I'm very clear that I will follow the law. I make that statement over and over again, and as vice president of the United States, that's exactly what I've done.’ Saying ‘I'll follow the law’ is not a policy position, but she did indeed repeat it ‘over and over again.’ [Baier] pointed out that her running mate, Tim Walz, supports those things. ‘We are very clear, and I am very clear, as is Tim Walz, that we must support and enforce federal law.’ Another non-answer.”
Paula Bolyard, PJ Media
“The most plain and self-evident questions a person would have for Kamala are why she’s campaigning as though she’s not currently in the White House; how her administration would be recognizably different from the one in which she serves right now; and when did she decide to take the exact opposite position on several major policy issues from what she held in the very recent past?…
“Baier asked them all and Kamala each and every time changed the subject to Trump. To his immense credit, Baier put in an exhaustive effort to keep her in focus, to which Kamala grew visibly frustrated. You could see it in her body language and hear it in her voice that she was at a loss for words because she has no answers that, if she were honest, wouldn’t immediately disqualify her from the campaign.”
Eddie Scarry, The Federalist
