by Frank Holmes, reporter
After an incredible 39 days of waiting, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris deigned to take questions from the media…but only under very special circumstances.
She went on one of the friendliest networks on TV—CNN–to be interviewed by Trump-hating propagandist Dana Bash, and she still had to have her running mate, Tim Walz, by her side, nodding and breathing heavily.
Once she started speaking, it was obvious why.
To her credit, Dana Bash—who is usually a pushover for any Democratic candidate—asked a few real questions along with the softballs.
For example, do you still want to ban fracking? Do you still want to make illegal immigration legal and give illegal aliens taxpayer-funded healthcare? Why did you wait three-and-a-half years to pretend to shut down illegal immigration, by routing it through other avenues?
Dana didn’t mean to bash Kamala; she wanted to ask her tough-sounding questions, so Kamala could respond in a friendly environment—and the issue would die. She could say she “addressed it” in her interview with CNN.
The problem was, Kamala had no answer—or rather, she had the exact same answer, over and over again.
She said her values “have not changed” six times!
In the middle of that repetition, Kamala served up this word salad about climate change.
Kamala Harris on the Green New Deal in her first sit down interview with CNN:
"I have always believed, and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real. That it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time." pic.twitter.com/2MCd9NH7qJ
— The American Conservative (@amconmag) August 29, 2024
At one point, Dana Bash got so frustrated at Kamala’s incompetence that she tried to offer her a multiple choice answer about why she flip-flopped so much: “Is it because you have more experience now and you’ve learned more about the information? Is it because you’re running for president in a Democratic primary? And should they feel comfortable and confident that what you’re saying now is gonna be your policy moving forward?”
Kamala just repeated that nothing had ever changed.
DISASTER: CNN released a preview of the Kamala Harris interview airing tonight and she already blew it by saying her VALUES HAVE NOT CHANGED
This includes the open border horrors that have happened under her watch the past nearly 4 years
According to her, they will CONTINUE pic.twitter.com/90Hy7H2puC
— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) August 29, 2024
When Kamala wasn’t trying to square the circle, she was spinning faster than a NASCAR driver in an oil slick.
When Bash asked about the impact Bidenomics had on Americans, Kamala responded, “There’s more to do. But that’s good work.”
More to do? Now we know what Joe Biden said when he promised Kamala would “finish the job.”
“We created over 800,000 new manufacturing jobs,” Harris bragged. “I’ll say that that’s good work.”
Like most of the job numbers Joe Biden used to throw around, and Kamala will cite until election day, this is a lie of epic proportions that most legacy media “fact-checkers” will let slide on a technicality.
Most of the 742,000 manufacturing jobs that opened since January 2021 actually reopened; the government forced them to close during the COVID-19 lockdown, and businesses just finally rehired the crew that Dr. Fauci forced them to fire.
Only about 170,000 of those are new jobs from before the pandemic.
Kamala also thanked herself, and Bidenomics, for fixing the economy, which “had crashed, in large part because of the mismanagement by Donald Trump.”
The economy crashed thanks to lockdowns—which she and Joe Biden wanted to keep going. They went all-in on mask mandates and tried to force large employers to have their employees injected with the COVID-19 shot, which they called a vaccine.
They handed out unemployment checks that paid more than work.
They even bragged their policy of sending fat government checks gave workers “leverage”—and triggered a national resignation emergency.
Now, she’s claiming Kamala was putting people to work in places she’d never go, like McDonald’s.
“You cannot trust her — and she proved it tonight. It was a disaster,” said Trump senior advisor Tim Murtaugh, who predicted, “This interview will be with her for a long, long time.”
Trump Senior Advisor @TimMurtaugh breaks down Kamala's humiliating CNN interview: "You cannot trust her — and she proved it tonight. It was a disaster. This interview will be with her for a long, long time." pic.twitter.com/uUltqzgH9R
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 30, 2024
“I waited 40 days for this crap?” asked Newsmax host Carl Higbie.
I waited 40 days for this crap?
Kamala and Walz interview was a disaster for them
Ohh, and you are still paying too much in taxes.
— Carl Higbie (@CarlHigbie) August 30, 2024
It wasn’t long ago, Democratic Party insiders thought Joe Biden was the more likable, more electable one and wanted to replace Kamala Harris.
They wrote it out in articles and books for the world to see—many, many times.
Although he was always sure to say he was happy America had its first black female vice president, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius suggested last September that Joe Biden should really launch “a more open vice-presidential selection process that could produce a stronger running mate.”
New York magazine ran a story titled, “The Case for Biden to Drop Kamala Harris” in September 2023. The author proposed Biden tap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia, or Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois as his new running mate.
Some of the people saying Kamala should have stepped down—or been pushed—are those who worked closest with her.
“Kamala is not ready for prime time,” a senior White House staffer told the authors of the new book The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party, which looks inside the Biden-Harris presidency. “She ain’t made for this.”
“It was rotten from the start,” a top aide from her 2020 campaign told the authors. “A lot of us, at least folks that I was friends with on the campaign, all realized that: ‘Yeah, this person should not be president of the United States.’”
People at all levels of the operation spoke about the “toxic climate” Kamala created during her 2020 presidential campaign, especially thanks to favoring her sister, Maya Harris, over seasoned campaign experts.
“I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly,” said the woman who oversaw Kamala’s state operations, Kelly Mehlenbacher.
“Because we have refused to confront our mistakes, foster an environment of critical thinking and honest feedback, or trust the expertise of talented staff, we find ourselves making the same unforced errors over and over.”
She carried her administrative touch of death into the White House. Nine out of 10 people who worked for Kamala Harris as vice president quit, according to a review from the group Open The Books.
What total turmoil led to Harris grasping the nomination from Biden—that kind that had to negotiate a sit-down interview with a friendly source?
What kind of crisis will America face if she imports that kind of chaos to the White House?
What kind of buyer’s remorse will U.S. voters (and the illegals who fraudulently cast ballots this election) have if they have to sit through four more years of interviews like that?