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Presidential Debate: Questions Kamala Harris Must Be Asked
RealClearPolitics ^ | 09/06/2024 | Steve Cortes

Posted on 09/06/2024 6:53:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

After six weeks of completely hiding from the media, Kamala Harris finally appeared, with the safety valve of her running mate, in a pre-recorded, brief, and totally friendly interview with Dana Bash of CNN.

Bash did not press on the most urgent issues, nor did she follow up when Harris either obfuscated or simply refused to answer. As such, Harris still escapes the scrutiny of any real interview, even though she has applied for the most difficult and important job in the world.

Moreover, if anything, the burden of proof should be far higher for Harris given that she was elevated to nominee status by the backroom machinations of powerbrokers, rather than citizens voting.

In fact, Harris has never earned a single caucus or primary vote for president, neither in 2020, nor in 2024. Given that she came out of the Democratic Party apparatus that dominates California, in point of fact Harris has not faced serious scrutiny in her entire political career, ever.

She wants to claim all the advantages of incumbency without any of the attendant blame for her record as a sitting vice president and co-manager of the Biden agenda, especially on immigration and on inflation. Unfortunately, the corporate press seems more than willing to grant her this posture of “all the benefits/none of the costs,” in large part because leading media mavens clearly feel guilt for having deposed Biden so unceremoniously.

As part of that media fawning protection over Harris, she faces little blowback for ignoring journalists. Given this strange circumstance, next week’s debate may well provide the singular opportunity to press Harris on key questions that she simply must answer to prove herself worthy of the highest office in the land.

If ABC News wants to find a professional conscience on behalf of the profession of journalism, then these queries really should flow from the moderators, Linsey Davis and David Muir. But if ABC forgoes that ethical obligation, then President Trump should enter the debate hall ready to validly confront Harris on the following key dozen questions:

  1. When did you know about Joe Biden’s cognitive issues and were you always truthful with the American people about his condition?
  2. It has been reported that Biden was threatened with use of the 25th Amendment as leverage to get him to drop out. Can you speak to that issue and defend why you belong on the ballot even though no primary voters chose you?
  3. You have publicly boasted about Bidenomics, but Americans hate the economy. Can you describe Bidenomics and whether you still own it?
  4. President Trump did a highly confrontational town hall on CNN as a candidate this cycle. Will you do a similar town hall with someone like Laura Ingraham?
  5. Why do you affect accents in front of different audiences and what does it say about your authenticity?
  6. On fracking, CNN states that you never did change your own personal opinion in 2020, so can you explain when and why you did change to become pro-fracking?
  7. You’ve repeatedly backed race-based reparations. Can you explain why Hispanic, Asian, and white Americans today should pay their black neighbors for racial injustices committed before they were ever even born?
  8. Can you state whether or not your home state of California is a model for America?
  9. How can you assure the American people that millions of migrants who poured into America will not receive amnesty and citizenship?
  10. What would you say to the parents of Laken Riley?
  11. Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal – you said you were the last person in the room and that you’re comfortable with the decision. Is that still the case?
  12. Housing affordability has never been worse in America by some metrics, and not since the 2006 Housing bubble, according to Goldman Sachs. Why shouldn’t Americans blame you for this crisis?

Steve Cortes is former senior advisor to President Trump, former commentator for Fox News and CNN, and president of the League of American Workers, a populist right pro-laborer advocacy group.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024; debate; harris; kamala
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1 posted on 09/06/2024 6:53:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

What’s your favorite color?


2 posted on 09/06/2024 6:57:42 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe! Eph. 5:11)
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To: waterhill

Is it true that you had an affair with Downtown Willie Brown in order to advance your political career?


3 posted on 09/06/2024 7:01:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

13. Can you safely operate a motor vehicle in your current condition and would you submit yourself to a field sobriety test and breathalyzer?


4 posted on 09/06/2024 7:03:57 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: SeekAndFind

How does it feel to be such an inspiration to so many little girls of color out there?


5 posted on 09/06/2024 7:07:17 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: SeekAndFind

Kamala, what is your favorite color? Which pet do you like, cats or dogs?


6 posted on 09/06/2024 7:10:19 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: SeekAndFind

The questions have already been supplied to her campaign.


7 posted on 09/06/2024 7:16:19 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
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To: SeekAndFind

First question by Trump to Harris, “when you lose this debate, who will your democrat oligarchs replace you with?”


8 posted on 09/06/2024 7:18:25 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: SeekAndFind

Have you ever been treated for an STD?

When’s the last time you had a drink?

Is lawfare against political opponents a crime?

What is your relationship with your father?

Which of your father’s policies do you agree with?

Follow up: Disagree?

Describe your relationship with Willie Brown.

Follow-up: how about his wife?


9 posted on 09/06/2024 7:20:32 PM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: waterhill

Or: What’s your favorite ice cream?


10 posted on 09/06/2024 7:21:45 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: doorgunner69

RE: The questions have already been supplied to her campaign.

Trump openly said so as well.


11 posted on 09/06/2024 7:22:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

12 posted on 09/06/2024 7:25:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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She was a Candidate throughout 2019-2020, then she had a fake Government job.

There’s No person on earth with more time to research the only issues / questions she’ll get. These issues have been here for a long time, and ABC loves her more than anything on the planet.

They are simple, straightforward questions about long standing issues.

No surprises here.

Global Warming

School shooting = guns.

EVs.

Fake position on the border.


13 posted on 09/06/2024 7:26:34 PM PDT by OakOak (Misinformation Campaign on your TV)
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To: doorgunner69

Actually, the questions have already been provided BY her campaign.


14 posted on 09/06/2024 8:57:26 PM PDT by LibertyOh
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To: SeekAndFind
Why do you affect accents in front of different audiences and what does it say about your authenticity?

BINGO!

15 posted on 09/06/2024 9:06:37 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: waterhill
Right!
16 posted on 09/06/2024 9:08:27 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: LibertyOh

and her answers will still be wrong.


17 posted on 09/06/2024 9:19:00 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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To: SeekAndFind

All of us will be waiting in suspense to see if the hardhitting news journalist will ask those questions.

And for world peace. And the payoff of the national debt.


18 posted on 09/06/2024 9:48:04 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: lightman
Actually you are close, very close, but Trump needs to say something like:

“Wow, I am really surprised, she has no accent. I am going to have have the audio checked on my TV”

“This is interesting the VPs accent has changed. Now she sounds like someone who grew up in the wealthy neighborhood in Canada”

“Well this has me thrown off a bit, I was expecting a Southern Accent, this is a new one”

The killer: “I am offended to learn the VP was mimicking Southern Black accents, isn't that no different than someone using black face? Very sad.”

19 posted on 09/06/2024 10:02:19 PM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Which McDonald’s did you work at and what time period?


20 posted on 09/06/2024 10:18:57 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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