{"id":2356092,"date":"2024-10-17T10:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T14:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kamala-harris-scrambles-tries-to-escape-questions-about-biden-during-tense-interview-moment\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T10:12:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T14:12:39","slug":"watch-kamala-harris-scrambles-tries-to-escape-questions-about-biden-during-tense-interview-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kamala-harris-scrambles-tries-to-escape-questions-about-biden-during-tense-interview-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Kamala Harris Scrambles, Tries to Escape Questions About Biden During Tense Interview 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\">28<\/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-scrambles-tries-to-escape-questions-about-biden-during-tense-interview-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=2356092&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 article discusses \u2062a recent interview with Vice President\u200c Kamala Harris, where she faced questions about President Joe Biden&#8217;s mental fitness. During the interview,\u2063 hosted by Bret Baier on Fox News, Harris \u2064was pressed on\u2063 when she first noticed signs of Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline after she has \u2062previously stated that he was &#8220;on his game.&#8221; Baier challenged her on \u2062her past descriptions of Biden\u2019s capabilities, particularly in \u200clight of increasing discussions about Donald Trump&#8217;s mental stability. Throughout the exchange, Harris deflected the questions, reiterating that Biden is not on the \u200cballot and pivoting\u200c the focus back to Trump,\u2063 which highlighted her \u2063discomfort in addressing Biden&#8217;s fitness for office. The interview underscored ongoing concerns and doubts regarding Biden&#8217;s ability to serve, which have been \u2062apparent since a notably poor debate performance in June. The author\u2063 suggests that Harris&#8217;s avoidance of direct answers\u2063 raises\u2063 questions about her own political \u200dpositioning and readiness as a candidate.  <\/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>What did the vice president know, and when did she know it?<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a spin on the old line from the Watergate hearings &mdash; and curiously enough, it hasn&rsquo;t really been posed to Kamala Harris since President Joe Biden basically handed her the Democratic nomination in mid-July after his campaign unraveled following his obviously senile performance in a June 27 debate. She had told the country that Biden was at the top of his game. She was supposedly the last person that was in the room when he made a decision. She knew that was a lie; the same way we all found out, in an unmanaged environment, that it was a lie.<\/p>\n<p>At what point, then, did she know about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-smirking-biden-ignores-reporters-handler-escorts-room\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden&rsquo;s declining health<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The question was finally posed during Harris&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-loses-bret-baier-fact-checks-playing-video-clip-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first interview with any real pushback<\/a> on Wednesday evening, not coincidentally on Fox News. And, interestingly enough, Bret Baier noted that her campaign is increasingly leaning into talk that Donald Trump is too dangerously far gone to be leader of the United States, instead of the &ldquo;vibes campaign&rdquo; that&rsquo;s brought them this far.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve called Donald Trump &mdash; he&rsquo;s misguided,&rdquo; Baier said. &ldquo;You say now he is unstable &hellip; he&rsquo;s not well. You say he&rsquo;s mentally not stable.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Let me ask you this: You told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game. That he ran circles around his staff. When did you first notice that president Biden&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-wont-say-when-she-first-noticed-bidens-cognitive-decline\/\" title=\"Harris Won&#039;t Say When She First Noticed Biden&#039;s Cognitive Decline\">mental faculties appeared diminished<\/a>?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>There was a paused and arched eyebrows &mdash; almost as if she hadn&rsquo;t expected this line of questioning despite the fact it was <em>the most obvious line of questioning the media should have posed to her&nbsp;<\/em>after she became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-reveals-who-convinced-him-to-join-obamas-ticket-i-dont-wanna-be-vice-president\/\" title=\"Biden discloses who persuaded him to join Obama: &#039;VP role wasn&#039;t my preference\">de facto nominee<\/a><\/a> over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Then: &ldquo;Joe Biden &mdash; I have watched him from the Oval Office to the situation room,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;And he has the judgement and the experiment &mdash; and experience to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No concerns were raised?&rdquo; Baier asked.<\/p>\n<p>Note the lack of an answer. &ldquo;Joe Biden is not on the ballot,&rdquo; Harris said. &ldquo;And Donald Trump is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: Bret Baier asks Kamala Harris when she first noticed Joe Biden was mentally unstable after Harris tried claiming Trump was mentally unstable.<\/p>\n<p>Kamala: Trump&rsquo;s not stable.<\/p>\n<p>Baier: When did you first notice Biden wasn&rsquo;t stable?<\/p>\n<p>Brutal. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Vem87ruD5\">pic.twitter.com\/3Vem87ruD5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1846681227782234558?\">October 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Baier then noted that she&rsquo;d repeated her support for Biden even after actor and Democratic activist and donor George Clooney wrote a damning Op-Ed in The New York Times, noting that Biden was noticeably off to those who had been close to him, including Clooney himself.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump is on the ballot,&rdquo; Harris repeated.<\/p>\n<p>Baier noted that she&rsquo;d met &ldquo;with him at least once a week for three-and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-trump-aide-paul-manafort-cant-be-prosecuted-in-new-york-following-pardon-court-rules\/\" title=\"Ex-Trump Aide Paul Manafort Can\u2019t Be Prosecuted in New York Following Pardon, Court Rules\">-a-half years<\/a>. You didn&rsquo;t have any concerns?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think the American people have a concern about Donald Trump,&rdquo; she said, segueing into a bit about the all the people from his prior administration who had endorsed her and were concerned about Trump, yadda yadda yadda, you&rsquo;ve heard this before.<\/p>\n<p>The fuller context, just in case you missed it:<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/80DaR2CVNNk?si=-8MUt4xhVETDwXvQ&amp;start=1252\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The biggest takeaway isn&rsquo;t the non-answer or evasiveness &mdash; although those should still be takeaways, because this was an important question. The bigger issue is that this&nbsp;<em>has been<\/em> an important question since both candidates &mdash; different on one side, then &mdash; stepped off of a debate stage on the night of June 27 and it became painfully obvious to all that Joe Biden was too diminished too carry on for another four years &mdash; and was arguably too diminished to carry on well before this.<\/p>\n<p>Harris hasn&rsquo;t really had to answer hard questions aside from the night of the debate, when she was similarly cagey after CNN&rsquo;s Anderson Cooper said it looked bad; she tried <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-anderson-cooper-fact-checks-kamala-harris-live-cnn-drops-bomb-bidens-debate-fail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to pass it off<\/a> then as being &ldquo;a slow start&rdquo; but insisted Biden had &ldquo;a strong finish.&rdquo; He did not &mdash; and the Democratic Party was, less than a month later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-musk-burns-kamala-harris-shortly-biden-endorsement-imagine-4-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unburdened by his candidacy<\/a>, as Kamala might say.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Harris has assiduously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bizarre-setting-kamala-harris-msnbc-interview-earns-widespread-mockery-just-hilarious\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">avoided any kind of adversarial questioning until Wednesday<\/a>. And now we know why. She can&rsquo;t answer the simplest question about why she&rsquo;s even the candidate, about why Joe Biden isn&rsquo;t on the ballot and Donald Trump is. She&rsquo;s had months to prepare for the most obvious thing reporters should want to know from her, and there&rsquo;s still nothing resembling a coherent response, even a fake one.<\/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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This echoes a famous question from the Watergate hearings, yet it hasn&#8217;t been directed at Kamala Harris since President Joe Biden effectively gave her the Democratic nomination in mid-July after his campaign faltered due to his clearly diminished mental state during a June 27 debate. She had claimed that Biden was performing well and was supposedly the last person present when he made decisions. She knew this was untrue, just as we all discovered in an uncontrolled setting. So, when did she become aware of Joe Biden&#8217;s declining health? This question finally arose during Harris&#8217; first interview with significant pushback on Fox News. Interestingly, Bret Baier pointed out that her campaign is increasingly focusing on claims that Donald Trump is too unstable to lead rather than relying solely on their previous approach. Baier asked her about her past statements regarding Biden&#8217;s competence and when she first noticed any decline in his mental faculties. Her response included vague praise for Biden without addressing concerns directly raised by Baier or acknowledging any issues with his capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Baier highlighted Clooney\u2019s critical Op-Ed about Biden\u2019s noticeable decline and pressed Harris further about whether she had concerns after meeting with him regularly for years. Instead of answering directly, she shifted focus back to Trump being on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The key takeaway here isn&#8217;t just her evasiveness but also how long this question has been relevant since both candidates left that debate stage in June\u2014when it became clear that Joe Biden might not be fit for another term\u2014and how Harris has largely avoided tough questions until now. Despite having ample time to prepare for such inquiries, she still struggles to provide a coherent answer regarding why she&#8217;s running instead of Biden or why he isn&#8217;t on the ballot while Trump is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2356093,"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\/10\/Harris-Interview-on-Fox.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,6234,32438,5894],"class_list":["post-2356092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-interview","tag-kamala-harris","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Harris-Interview-on-Fox.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356092","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=2356092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2356093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}