{"id":2334372,"date":"2024-08-30T14:46:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T18:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-cnn-interview-reminded-people-of-the-truth-about-kamala\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T14:52:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T18:52:05","slug":"the-cnn-interview-reminded-people-of-the-truth-about-kamala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-cnn-interview-reminded-people-of-the-truth-about-kamala\/","title":{"rendered":"The CNN Interview Reminded People Of The Truth About Kamala"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-cnn-interview-reminded-people-of-the-truth-about-kamala%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2334372&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The news coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s recent CNN interview highlighted a\u2062 disparity \u2064between media interpretations and the \u2064live viewing experience. While some analysts claimed Harris navigated the\u200c interview adeptly\u2064 without losing or gaining political \u200cground, a closer look reveals persistent issues regarding her political standing \u2063and clarity. Critics argue that Harris&#8217;s responses lacked substantive engagement, particularly when questioned about her past positions, such as her stance on fracking and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/acting-deputy-secy-comments-on-response-to-breach-on-capitol-building\/\" title=\"Acting deputy secy. comments on response to breach on Capitol building\">immigration policy<\/a>. The interview showcased her inability to withstand scrutiny and articulate a cohesive argument, reinforcing\u2064 existing perceptions of her struggles in governance. the\u200b discussion\u2064 revolved around the media&#8217;s portrayal of Harris as \u200ba resilient candidate, \u2063contrasting sharply with viewers\u2019 impressions of her performance.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>News coverage following Thursday night&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/30\/cnn-didnt-interview-kamala-harris-it-swaddled-her-in-a-security-blanket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN interview with Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a> predictably recast the episode in ways that were unfamiliar to anyone who watched live and who has even just loosely followed her career in national politics.<\/p>\n<p>New York Times reporter Reid Epstein <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/29\/us\/politics\/harris-walz-interview-cnn-takeaways.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Kamala &ldquo;parried questions from Dana Bash on Thursday without causing herself political harm or providing herself a significant boost.&rdquo; Aaron Blake at The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/08\/29\/kamala-harris-interview-cnn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> she &ldquo;didn&rsquo;t really stumble or seem to do anything that might hamper her momentum.&rdquo; Politico&rsquo;s popular morning &ldquo;Playbook&rdquo; newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2024\/08\/30\/what-we-learned-from-the-harris-interview-00176824?nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=0000014e-f115-dd93-ad7f-f915a6170001&amp;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gleaned<\/a> that the interview &ldquo;suggested to us how tough Donald Trump&rsquo;s job is now &hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>These are supposed to be the big &ldquo;takeaways&rdquo; from the event, but any fair-minded person who watched knows that the reality wasn&rsquo;t so forgiving. What the taped interview with Nancy Pelosi&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/13\/politics\/nancy-pelosi-badass-women-washington\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">favorite journalist<\/a> did was reinforce the Kamala <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/21\/kamala-cant-win-without-extreme-election-interference-and-thats-exactly-whats-happening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we all knew<\/a> before we were told one day two months ago that she&rsquo;s a beloved sex symbol &mdash;&nbsp;the Kamala who&rsquo;s in over her head, has no vision for the country, and has no interest in governance.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s a reason that Democrats and the media have <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/29\/joy-rhetoric-is-an-orwellian-attempt-to-hide-democrats-hatred\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=joy-rhetoric-is-an-orwellian-attempt-to-hide-democrats-hatred\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forced<\/a> an amorphous, ever-shifting concept of &ldquo;joy&rdquo; to be the animating force of Kamala&rsquo;s campaign. This interview, containing not a single unexpected question, illustrates perfectly why they&rsquo;ve done so. (Here&rsquo;s a link <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2024\/08\/29\/politics\/harris-walz-interview-read-transcript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to the full CNN transcript<\/a> for reference.)<\/p>\n<p>Kamala can&rsquo;t withstand scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>She implied that she&rsquo;s never been in favor of banning fracking but when confronted with her position when she ran for president in 2020, she skated past the question to only say she has &ldquo;made very clear&rdquo; she&rsquo;s not in favor of it. In that exchange alone, she used the word &ldquo;clear&rdquo; five times. Much like the constant hammering with messages about <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/06\/the-same-media-who-call-lizzo-healthy-and-vance-weird-are-calling-tim-walz-all-american\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">how average and dad-like Tim Walz is<\/a> unpersuasive, if you have to repeatedly state how &ldquo;clear&rdquo; you&rsquo;ve been, nobody is convinced.<\/p>\n<p>Kamala can&rsquo;t articulate an argument for herself.<\/p>\n<p>Confronted with her on-record position to decriminalize unauthorized crossings at the southern border, she started talking about climate policy. &ldquo;My values have not changed,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act.&rdquo; (Yes, Kamala admitted the &ldquo;inflation reduction&rdquo; bill was actually about funding the electric cars scam.)<\/p>\n<p>Kamala can&rsquo;t even fake a fundamental grasp of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-infighting-over-aipac\/\" title=\"Internal conflicts within the Democratic Party regarding AIPAC\">critical foreign policy issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The war in Israel is just one of two violent global conflicts to break out under the Kamala-Biden administration, and in the almost year since it started, the closest she could come to explaining her depth of understanding about it or how to bring it to an end was to repeat in frustration, &ldquo;We have to get a deal done.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &ldquo;We have got to get a deal done.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &ldquo;We &mdash; we were in Doha. We have to get a deal done.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &ldquo;This war must end.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &ldquo;And we must get a deal that is about getting the hostages out.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s get the ceasefire done.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &ldquo;We have to get a deal done.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &ldquo;Dana, we have to get a deal done.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &ldquo;A deal is not only the right thing to do to end this war but will unlock so much of what must happen next.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Look at all that joy! Damn, that&rsquo;s a lot of joy!<\/p>\n<p>Kamala looked tired. Admittedly, she&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a> and simultaneously running for president on a platform that ignores she&rsquo;s currently in the White House. Oh, and joy. I&rsquo;d be exhausted, too.<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;re finally getting to see again the Kamala we knew all along.<\/p>\n<hr><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s CNN interview on Thursday night, media coverage has portrayed the event in ways that seem disconnected from the actual experience of those who watched it live or have followed her political career. New York Times journalist Reid Epstein noted that Kamala &#8220;deflected questions from Dana Bash without harming her political standing or significantly boosting it.&#8221; Aaron Blake from The Washington Post remarked that she &#8220;didn&#8217;t falter or do anything to hinder her momentum.&#8221; Politico\u2019s widely-read morning newsletter suggested the interview highlighted how challenging Donald Trump&#8217;s position is now.<\/p>\n<p>These interpretations are meant to be the main &#8220;takeaways&#8221; from the interview, but anyone who viewed it fairly would recognize a different reality. The recorded conversation with Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s favored journalist reinforced an image of Kamala that many were already familiar with before being told two months ago that she is a beloved figure\u2014namely, someone who appears overwhelmed, lacks a clear vision for the country, and shows little interest in governance.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason why Democrats and media outlets have promoted an ambiguous concept of \u201cjoy\u201d as central to Kamala\u2019s campaign; this interview\u2014featuring no unexpected questions\u2014illustrates precisely why. It reveals that Kamala struggles under scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>She suggested she has never supported banning fracking but when pressed about her stance during her 2020 presidential run, she avoided directly answering and insisted she had \u201cmade very clear\u201d her position. In just this exchange alone, she used the word \u201cclear\u201d five times. Similar to how constant messaging about Tim Walz being relatable fails to persuade voters, repeatedly asserting clarity does not convince anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Kamala also struggles to articulate arguments for herself. When asked about her previous support for decriminalizing unauthorized border crossings, instead of addressing it directly, she shifted focus to climate policy: \u201cMy values have not changed,\u201d she stated while discussing the Green New Deal and emphasizing urgency regarding climate issues without addressing immigration concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Kamala seems unable even to feign understanding of critical foreign policy matters. Regarding ongoing conflicts like the war in Israel\u2014which erupted during Biden&#8217;s administration\u2014her closest attempt at conveying comprehension was simply repeating phrases like \u201cWe have to get a deal done.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Her repeated insistence on needing a deal reflects little depth:<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;We must get a deal done.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;This war must end.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Let\u2019s get the ceasefire done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The abundance of such statements hardly conveys joy; rather they suggest fatigue. As vice president running for president while seemingly ignoring her current role in office\u2014and amid discussions of joy\u2014it\u2019s understandable if she&#8217;s feeling worn out.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, we are witnessing once again the version of Kamala we\u2019ve always known<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2334373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kamala-Harris.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9373,6234,32438,6426],"class_list":["post-2334372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cnn","tag-interview","tag-kamala-harris","tag-truth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kamala-Harris.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}