Former Vice President Kamala Harris completely froze when an Australian reporter called her out for dodging questions about former President Joe Biden’s declining mental health and the White House cover up.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation reporter Sarah Ferguson pressed Harris during an interview that aired Wednesday about Biden’s mental frailties and Harris’s responsibility as vice president.
Ferguson asked Harris if Biden’s refusal to acknowledge his decline hurt her chances in the 2024 election.
“Wasn’t his refusal to recognize his own frailties the reason that you faced a nearly impossible task?” Ferguson asked.
Harris responded by attacking President Donald Trump instead of addressing Biden.
“I ran against Donald Trump for president and Donald Trump ran on a platform that was in large part, I believe, misrepresenting his intentions to the American people,” Harris said. “I do believe that there are a fair number of people that voted for Donald Trump who believed him when he told them that his first priority on day one is going to be to bring down prices, and he didn’t.”
Ferguson interrupted Harris and demanded she answer the question.
“I want to interrupt you because that is a world-class pivot, but it is not the question that I asked you, which is about Joe Biden’s failure to recognize his own frailties and what that did to you,” Ferguson said. “The question is about Joe Biden. Are you still reluctant to criticize the former president?”
Ferguson asked again whether the White House’s failure to acknowledge Biden’s mental decline put Harris in an impossible position during the election.
“He was not frail as president of the United States,” Harris said.
“But he had frailties. We all saw the debate,” Ferguson responded, referring to Biden’s disastrous June debate performance against Trump.
“I do believe that Joe Biden had the capacity to be president of the United States, and I’ve never doubted that he had the capacity to be president of the United States,” Harris said. “If you want to talk about whether he had the ability to endure what a race for president of the United States would require in that political environment in 2024, as I’ve said in the book, I had concerns.”
“I talked about that in the book. And I also mentioned the context in which that debate occurred. And you’ll probably remember how I talked about that in terms of what his travel schedule had been, that — what he had been enduring in terms of the timing of that debate,” Harris said. “I talk about it extensively in the book. I’m not shying away from that. That’s why I wrote it in the book, because I do know it’s a question people had.”