Those of us who follow politics closely have seen a lot of blunders through the years. Kamala Harris’s pre-taped “interview” with fake news CNN is going to go down in history.
Her campaign staff should have never let this happen. They might have to cancel the one debate that they’ve tentatively agreed to have with Donald Trump after this.
Don’t get me wrong – I’m thrilled that they made this blunder! The only person who is probably laughing harder about it right now is Joe Biden.
The campaign should never have allowed Kamala to sit down for this interview that aired Thursday night on CNN. They might have even pulled it off and gotten her elected president if they continued to hide her from press. It’s not as if the media hasn’t been doing its best to beatify her as a god-like figure.
This is the same media that was arguing just eight weeks ago that Joe Biden should ditch Kamala for someone—anyone—else in the Democrat Party because her polling was so disastrous. Joe Biden could have walked out of the White House and announced that he had chosen one of the rose bushes on the lawn as his running mate, and the Democrats would have breathed a collective sigh of relief. At least the rose bush couldn’t do a worse job.
They had kept Kamala hidden for six weeks without doing any scripted interviews and without taking any spur-of-the-moment questions more difficult than, “How are you feeling right now?”
This CNN interview was her big moment to shine. It was her chance to prove to the world that she’s not a drunken mediocrity who rose to the top through affirmative action and that one other thing that she’s known for. (How is the real Mrs. Willie Brown doing, by the way?)
CNN even pre-taped the interview to help Kamala out. They probably gave her all the questions a week ago so her staff could prepare her for the interview. And she still blew it.
Why do a pre-taped interview? The answer to that is obvious. CNN could then edit out some of Kamala’s worst moments. They could remove any questions where she really botched it and splice the usable clips together. That’s why CNN released the interview in three separate, pre-edited clips and won’t release the full transcript of it.
They even let her bring Tim Walz along as an emotional support animal for the interview. If the strong, capable woman Kamala ran into any questions too difficult, she could just nod to the man to jump in and save her.
Even with ALL THAT HELP, the interview was still a dud! It was 18 minutes of blah delivered in Kamala’s signature nasally slur.
President Trump, by contrast, had an event in Wisconsin the same day. He thought he was going to be giving a one-hour speech. When he got there, the staff informed him that the event was instead going to be in a town hall format, with Tulsi Gabbard moderating. Instead of giving a speech as he had expected, he had to answer spur-of-the-moment, unscripted questions from Wisconsinites.
Trump picked up the microphone and said, “Okay, let’s go!”
He walked in cold and hit it out of the park. He charmed the room, announced a new policy proposal, and gave deep, substantive, easy-to-understand answers to every question.
Kamala’s campaign is running scared and they were scared even before she sat down for her fake CNN interview. Here is how I know this:
The first interview with @KamalaHarris @Tim_Walz is wrapped. Watch the first clip at 4p ET and the rest at 9p tonight on @CNN pic.twitter.com/GHbOhFDfBo
— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) August 29, 2024
Did you see it? Once you notice it, it becomes the most prominent thing in the photo that Dana Bash posted on Twitter/X.
What’s underneath Kamala’s feet?
They’re so scared of the rumors that Kamala is a raging drunk that they wouldn’t keep a cup of water on the table, which is customary and perfectly normal for a TV interview. They knew that if they left that cup on the table, Trump’s happy warriors would have flooded the internet with a trillion memes about how Kamala can’t get through an interview without a vodka tonic.
What’s Joe Biden doing right now? Laughing in his chair at the beach. He’s been MIA for two weeks and will be gone for at least another week. He just doesn’t care anymore after his party knifed him in the back. He’s not even going to pretend that anyone is running the country right now.
Joe Biden is just happy that he has his revenge. He didn’t pick Kamala as his surprise successor because he wants or expects her to win. He picked her so that the history books will say he was the only one that ever beat Trump (even though we all know the 2020 election was stolen).
Kamala is Joe’s revenge against all the people in his party who laughed at him behind his back all those years in DC.
