Wednesday night’s combative interview with Vice President Kamala Harris was a set-up from the beginning as Fox News journalist Bret Baier politely explained after the event.
He indicated that Kamala showed up very late after the agreed-upon time for perhaps the most important real interview she has agreed to. This was evidently done on purpose.
Over the next few days more will certainly leak out about the machinations behind the scenes by the Harris campaign staff, but it was clear to me that she was told to be full of piss and vinegar, and she delivered.
The fact that Baier, on the air during the debate, said twice that her team was waving their arms to end the debate ahead of time is proof positive that they never intended to go through the entire questioning.
Trust me, she came in hot and combative and that was the design. Think about it. She wanted to act the way she did because she wanted her Democratic lemmings to see her be tough with Fox News, the blood foe of the Far Left, despite the fact that more people tune into Fox than any of the other MSM channels.
The fact that the debate only lasted about 20 minutes was because the campaign team had already gotten the film footage that they needed for a future campaign commercial. Trust me, clips from the debate showing Kamala as tough, principled, not willing to bow down to anyone, is what the staff needed and if it took only 15 minutes, so be it. That is why her staff wanted the debate over because the longer she was there, the more she would be required to keep repeating the same talking points.
The fact that Baier was able to go another five minutes or so is just a testament to Baier’s professionalism and experience in interviewing politicians.
As for a Joe Rogan podcast, don’t count on it because she did what her team wanted her to do – to run out the clock with long answers – with just a smattering of questions that most Americans wanted her to answer so they could learn more about what she might do if she was, God forbid, get elected.
Simple questions about does she support transgender surgery for prison inmates or illegal immigrants only elicited the comment that “I will follow the law.” What does that mean? What is the law?
Essentially, she filibustered throughout the campaign by giving the same old, tired, campaign talking points. Give her credit, she has memorized those talking points, and damn if she is going to allow anyone, anyone, to get her off those points.
It does not matter what the question is, she always pivoted to “It’s President Donald Trump’s fault.”
She even blamed him for inactions by the Harris-Biden administration even though Baier pointed out that Trump was not in office. It did not matter because for her there was no real talking point for a follow-up answer on any issue; just make it Trump’s fault.
Kamla dodged every question whether it was trying to equivocate her past statements, or facts shown on the screen to her about how much money Iran has received from her administration and yet she again, blamed it still on Trump. When Baier said he was not in office, her retort was “He’s (Trump) has been running for ten years,” and she believes that is the logical answer. It is not even logical.
None of her answers were new. She revealed no new explanations on any issue that she was asked about.
If she had been asked why the sky is blue, she would have said it was Trump’s fault. Go figure.
That is the sum total of her mental capacity to think on her feet, as she will not deviate one inch from those precious talking points.
Poor Kamala. All of the “Joy” and “Happiness” that her campaign has preached about from the beginning – an insane theme given the poor economy and the overwhelming unpopularity of the direction of this country – has now been thrown away in the dustbin of campaign history.
While her Democratic campaign staff will celebrate tonight with drunken abandon, it only proves that all of them are out of touch with the American public.
Other than enunciating her three-point economic plan, nothing of new substance came across her lips, and polls will show that this interview didn’t help her with independents who she desperately needs to even have a chance of winning.
Her repeated statement about Trump was to attempt to reinforce the shallow thought that Trump is a “threat to democracy,” and she trotted out the fired Trump administrators to prove her point. Unfortunately, this particular talking point has not yet gained traction with the small percentage of voters who still have not decided for whom to vote.
We get it.
Kamala, and her supporters have the most serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome ever diagnosed. It is their only talking point and she is scripted ad nauseum.
When Baier challenged her that 50% of the country supports Trump over her, it went right over her head. Same when Baier said that Americans trust Trump more than her on the economy. She again trotted out the same old point that 16 Nobel laureates and others that support her economic plan. But Americans have not fallen for this ruse because they know for themselves what inflation has done to their pocketbook. Kamala can say anything that she wants, but Americans know – and feel – the truth.
The bottom line is that Kamala failed to appear Presidential with enough intellectual depth to convince people that she knows what to do to turn this country around and in a new direction, and that she can articulate it in a way that the average American can understand. It is what they have been looking for from her since she became the Democratic nominee, and now it is becoming apparent that she is not going to try and convince Americans she can do the job, she is going to convince them that Trump is not the answer.
Historically, elections have not been won based on being against something or someone, it is about what the candidate is going to do to make things better.
Pandering to select demographic groups in front of all Americans, attempting to tell Americans that the idea of deportation is bad when 75% of us think it has to be done, and now telling all of us that she is going to study reparations when Americans overwhelmingly oppose it, is a losing proposition on all three fronts.
I hesitate to say this because I don’t want to jinx the Trump campaign, but if Kamala keeps this up, Trump may win the Electoral College going away, as I believe there is still a small percentage of Trump “closet” voters who will not tell pollsters what they really think, despite pollsters claiming that they have reworked their algorithms to compensate.
Frankly, Trump is positioned right where he needs to be. She peaked too early, and her support has been declining since the Democratic convention bump. It seems that Trump’s slow increase in support is going to arrive at just the right time – on Election Day!
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