Kamala Harris’ CNN Town Hall appearance should’ve been a walk in the past compared to her Bret Baier/Fox News disaster earlier this month.
Perhaps less so this year given MSNBC’s obsession with the left, but CNN has historically been the friendliest territory for Democratic presidential candidates in any electoral cycle.
Remarkably, the Vice President still managed to screw it up, and seemingly gave no thought to any questions that stumped her (or generated an epic word salad) in the past.
You don’t even need to have watched the town hall to know how it went. Repeated attacks on Trump (including Hitler comparisons); random cackling; failure to answer questions; and a largely unwatchable mess were, as per usual, the themes of the night.
One familiarity included a rambling response to the border wall. After berating a signature Donald Trump policy, going as far to call its existence “stupid”, Harris then took credit for pushing the wall’s $650 million extension (which is hardly enough for a complete border wall).
Harris also struggled on another recurring issue; she’s been Vice President for three-and-a-half years. Anderson Cooper’s questioning over record immigration figures and a failure to enact legislation simply proved too much for her [1:58 minutes into the video below].
The Vice President moved on to addressing mistakes within her tenure, failing to pinpoint an example from a very extensive list.
A similar response emerged after an audience member asked, “What weaknesses do you bring to the table?”
Nevertheless, Harris’ biggest enemy during her campaign has been her connection to the administration. She has pledged policy ideas without answering why she hasn’t implemented them, or at least asked President Biden to do so on her behalf. “I’m pointing out things that need to be done, that haven’t been done, but need to be done,” she rambled.
With every passing day, it becomes clearer why she avoided media outlets for so long; she simply cannot handle them.
