{"id":2346458,"date":"2024-09-26T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kamala-harris-left-stumped-pauses-while-trying-to-find-answer-to-question-during-awkward-moment\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T18:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T22:54:23","slug":"watch-kamala-harris-left-stumped-pauses-while-trying-to-find-answer-to-question-during-awkward-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kamala-harris-left-stumped-pauses-while-trying-to-find-answer-to-question-during-awkward-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Kamala Harris Left Stumped, Pauses While Trying to Find Answer to Question During Awkward Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fwatch-kamala-harris-left-stumped-pauses-while-trying-to-find-answer-to-question-during-awkward-moment%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=2346458&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 excerpt describes a recent \u200cinterview with Vice President Kamala Harris, \u200cduring which\u2063 she struggled to respond to a question\u2063 about financing \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-want-roads-and-bridges-other-infrastructure-priorities-not-so-much\/\" title=\"Americans Want Roads And Bridges. Other Infrastructure Priorities, Not So Much\">expanded child tax credits<\/a> and \u200chousing subsidies. Host Stephanie Ruhle asked how Harris would fund these initiatives \u200bif \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-the-new-york-times-is-covering-bidens-infrastructure-plan-vs-how-they-covered-trumps\/\" title=\"Here\u2019s How The New York Times Is Covering Biden\u2019s Infrastructure Plan Vs. How They Covered Trump\u2019s\">corporate tax increases<\/a> were not possible, to which\u2062 Harris fell back on familiar talking points, stating that raising \u200dcorporate taxes\u200c was essential. Critics noted that her responses seemed rehearsed and\u2062 lacked clarity, highlighting concerns over her reliance on established \u2064Democratic narratives \u2063rather than \u2063offering concrete solutions.\u200c The article critiques her performance as reflective \u200cof a broader failure among Democrats to \u200cconnect with\u200d American citizens, \u200dinstead resorting \u200cto outdated economic arguments rooted in class envy. it \u2063emphasizes Harris&#8217;s challenges with coherent communication and \u2062her apparent inability to engage seriously with \u200dpressing questions.  <\/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<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Democrats have grown so desperate that they now regurgitate decades-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-about-to-lose-one-of-his-economic-talking-points\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s About To Lose One of His Economic Talking Points\">economic talking points<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, programming those talking points into the overtaxed brain of Vice President Kamala Harris can result in awkward moments.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, during a fluff interview on Wednesday with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-agrees-rare-mainstream-media-interview-host-made-telling-comments-just-last-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">establishment bootlicker Stephanie Ruhle<\/a> of MSNBC, Harris flubbed a simple question by reverting to those talking points at the precise moment when nearly any other answer would have been better.<\/p>\n<p>In effect, Ruhle asked how, as president, Harris would pay for expanded child tax credits and housing subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that one does not &ldquo;pay&rdquo; for tax credits. The framing of the question is what mattered.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you can&rsquo;t raise corporate taxes, or if GOP takes control of the Senate, where do you get the money to do that? Do you still go forward with those plans and borrow?&rdquo; Ruhle asked in a clip posted to the social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>Now, keep in mind that Ruhle said &ldquo;if you can&rsquo;t raise corporate taxes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris responded as if the talking-point programming overrode manual control.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; the vice president said before briefly pausing, &ldquo;but we&rsquo;re gonna have to raise corporate taxes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Remember, Harris now works for those corporations. She and her fellow Democrats, along with a smaller but still shameful percentage of Republicans in Washington, D.C., serve the establishment, which stands for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/multiple-house-democrats-side-republicans-vote-condemn-border-czar-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open borders<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-harris-administration-accused-impeachable-offense-zelenskyy-flown-battleground-state-air-force-jet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">needless proxy wars<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/google-admits-changing-search-results-trump-assassination-searches-much\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">censorship<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-anti-semitism-bill-generations-patriot-act-sounds-great-horrific-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">domestic surveillance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/former-top-fbi-official-spills-beans-biden-harris-doj-says-mar-lago-raid-just-didnt-smell-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weaponization of government<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-vaccine-mandates-suffer-another-blow-appeals-court-sides-federal-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medical mandates<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-kamala-harris-casually-calls-australian-style-national-gun-confiscation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gun confiscation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tlaib-goes-unhinged-rant-parents-concerned-crt-schools-continue-pushing-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">woke indoctrination<\/a> and every other authoritarian tool that reduces citizens to slaves.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, corporate leaders know what to expect from her. So they know that she needs to say those things about raising corporate taxes because Democrats have no electoral card left to play, no record of helping American citizens on which to run. Despite the fact that they now represent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/vs-u-s-study-exposes-profound-threat-authoritarian-elites-pose-ordinary-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affluent authoritarians<\/a>, Democrats have reverted to the old class-envy playbook, complete with catchphrases.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, one can rather easily picture Harris practicing those catchphrases as she prepared for the interview.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And we&rsquo;re gonna have to raise,&rdquo; the vice president continued, again ignoring the plain meaning of Ruhle&rsquo;s question.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re gonna have to make sure that the biggest corporations and billionaires pay their fair . That&rsquo;s just it. It&rsquo;s about paying their fair ,&rdquo; Harris added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: Kamala Harris gets stumped during her first solo sit-down interview since becoming the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Ruhle: &ldquo;If you can&rsquo;t raise corporate taxes or if GOP takes control of the Senate, where do you get the money to do that?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris: &ldquo;Well, but we&rsquo;re gonna&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lp951n3etd\">pic.twitter.com\/lp951n3etd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1839063215218766337?\">September 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Those of us who remember the 20th century have heard that &ldquo;fair &rdquo; drivel too many times to count. And it has not improved with time.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that she does not mean it for all the reasons aforementioned. Even if she did mean it, the notion of paying one&rsquo;s &ldquo;fair &rdquo; in taxes, without establishing the purpose of those taxes or the need for them, is a terrible idea, for it presupposes that taxation has a punitive function &mdash; an idea that appeals only to simpletons with minds addled by envy.<\/p>\n<p>The real story here involves Harris&rsquo;s inability to respond to a question without falling back on talking points.<\/p>\n<p>As she has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/must-watch-daily-show-mercilessly-mock-vp-harris-word-salads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repeatedly demonstrated<\/a>, the vice president struggles to speak in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rfk-jr-slams-kamala-harris-says-need-president-can-put-together-english-sentence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coherent sentences<\/a>. Not all of her comments degenerate into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-blasted-saying-hamas-needs-thing-word-salad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">word salads<\/a>, but enough do that she has developed a reputation for it.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, when Ruhle asked what Harris would do if she could not raise corporate taxes, and Harris responded that she would have to raise corporate taxes, we know that the vice president said that, not because she meant it, but because her talking-point programming kicked in and told her to shift immediately into &ldquo;fair &rdquo; gobbledygook.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Unfortunately, this reliance on talking points can lead to uncomfortable situations for Vice President Kamala Harris. For example, during a recent interview with MSNBC&#8217;s Stephanie Ruhle, Harris stumbled over a straightforward question by defaulting to these old talking points when almost any other response would have sufficed. Ruhle inquired about how Harris would fund expanded child tax credits and housing subsidies if corporate taxes couldn&#8217;t be raised or if the GOP gained control of the Senate. Despite the flawed premise of &#8220;paying&#8221; for tax credits, Harris responded as if her programmed responses took precedence over genuine thought, insisting that corporate taxes must be raised. This reflects her alignment with corporate interests and highlights the Democrats&#8217; lack of viable electoral strategies or accomplishments to campaign on. Instead of addressing Ruhle&#8217;s question directly, she reiterated the need for corporations and billionaires to pay their &#8220;fair share,&#8221; echoing familiar rhetoric from past decades without considering its implications or context<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2346459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/lol-11.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[40478,32438,4133,32171,33462],"class_list":["post-2346458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-awkward-moment","tag-kamala-harris","tag-news","tag-political-commentary","tag-viral-video"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/lol-11.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346458","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}