Posted on 10/17/2024 2:50:22 AM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris angrily dodged questions on border policy, Iran and President Biden’s fitness for office in an contentious interview with Fox News host Bret Baier — as more polls showed her losing the initiative in the race for the White House.
The 26-minute interview with the Democratic nominee kicked off with a tense grilling by Baier on immigration policy — with Harris repeatedly refusing to say that terminating former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy was a mistake.
Baier’s first question schooled Harris about the effects of the current administration’s more permissive policies, which allow many illegal border-crossers to await asylum rulings inside the US, before asking how many migrants had been allowed into the US after crossing illegally.
When Harris declined to offer a figure, Baier said “it’s a rough estimate of six million people released into the country” before pressing her: “Looking back, do you regret the decision to terminate ‘Remain in Mexico’ at the beginning of your administration?”
Harris began to deploy standard campaign-trail talking points, insisting that the administration’s “first bill, practically within hours of taking the oath, was a bill to fix our immigration system.”
Baier interjected, “it was essentially a pathway to citizenship” for illegal immigrants already in the country.
“May I finish responding, please? But you have to let me finish, please,” the veep said sternly.
“You had the White House and the House and the Senate and they didn’t bring up that bill,” Baier said.
“I’m in the middle to responding to the point that you’re raising and I’d like to finish,” she reprimanded. We recognized from day one … it is a priority for us as a nation … and our focus has been on fixing a problem.”
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She is toast. After that debacle last night, I expect she will be roasted by anyone not already drinking the kool-aid.
Social media explodes after Kamala Harris’ ‘total trainwreck’ interview as supporters blast Fox News’ Bret Baier for ‘ambush’
It was a contentious 30 minutes as the current VP worked to distance herself from Biden, saying her presidency would not ‘be a continuation’ while defending the administration’s policies.
The moment Kamala Harris staff desperately intervened to end interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier: ‘It’s gotta stop!’
‘I’m talking like four people waving their hands like “it’s got to stop,”’ Baier described to his panel about how the interview ended after it wrapped up. ‘I had to dismount there at the end,’ Baier shrugged.
Then there were the non-answers.
Q: What about all the people your administration has let into the country?The last one was the most stunning to me. She was in the room for a few hours while Iran was doing threatening things.A: I'm the only one running for President who has prosecuted transnational criminals.
Q: Why are half of the people supporting Trump if he's so bad?
A: No one said running for President would be easy.
Q: You said Iran is our number one threat, but what would you say to critics that your administration does not act like it?
A: Well, whether it was April or October, I was in the room for a few hours when Iran was doing threatening things in the world.
I wish Baier had stated we’re not talking about Trump we’re talking about you, your plans and the administration you serve in the second she mentioned Trump.
She’s always so clear, however unwittingly, and the war she’s prosecuting is the war on MAGA, but there’s another little war going on and it’s the war within herself. She knows that Trump is not really planning to cancel the Constitution and that he’s more than fit to be POTUS but she’s campaigning on it anyway. She can’t afford to be honest and she knows it. She has to search for any workarounds but it’s not working. She’s smart in a bad way and that’s not working either. Their whole damned camping trip is set up in a virtual pseudo universe, complete with it’s own popular culture, which as far as anybody else can tell, is inferior.
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She was just awful and couldn’t answer 1 question. The whole interview was an exercise in wasting time, running out the clock.
During the interview Kamalamadingdong again revealed herself to be a real psychopath. She will continue to be supported by her fellow TDS psychopaths, as well as traitors to the United States of America.
BTTT
Harris interview with Fox News showcases a change in strategy for Democrats with network
https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-kamala-harris-democrat-strategy-abfed8e95ce0419e408055e00168f7c9
Brett should have said after he asked:
“Do you regret ending remain In Mexico and ending Catch and Release?”
“Yes Or No?,Either you Do or you Don’t”
...and not move on, had her reeling and the referee ready to call it and ring the bell but instead stayed polite. he was better than all the others though.
Brett clarified later that the four people waving their handssaying that it had to stop were Kamala people. Will the left be able to spin that it was Fox News who called it short? If not, they will probably just ignore it.
Not couldn’t, but wouldn’t, because real answers would be harmful to her campaign
Under her and Biden, we went from relative wealth to poverty, and from peace to war. The border and the economy, thatâÂÂs what we are interested in. She wonâÂÂt answer questions about those two simple things.
It is indeed!
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