Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris sat for an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Wednesday night and skewered Republican nominee and former president Donald Trump on several occasions.
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Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson: “Kamala came to Fox to stack bodies.”
In the most controversial part of the interview, Baier played a clip of Trump insisting that liberals were the enemy because he has been investigated “more than Al Capone.” When Baier asked for Harris’ reaction, she pounced:
“With all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying about the ‘enemy within’ that he has repeated when he’s speaking about the American people,” Harris said. “That’s not what you just showed.”
Baier tried to interrupt, but Harris kept going.
I’m seeing a wide array of opinions here leading me to believe it was a toss up. Perhaps not an objective toss up, but one as observed by different people.
I did not watch the interview live. Hours later, Fox’s YouTube channel only had a couple segments posted. I’m going to make a wild assumption that they will only post clips that work in the conservative’s favor.
I found this comment regarding this particular clip on Reddit. I’ve edited it to turn it around to seem like a comment about a Trump interview.
SheHe did good in this interview.SheHe faced a lot of tough questions just like this one and this is the only timeshehe raisedherhis voice. And it was near the end of 30 minutes of this crap.He constantly wouldn’t let
herhim finish answering questions. It was more like a string of accusations backed by video “evidence” to give those accusations credence. If there is a timeshehe needed to force him to listen toherhim, it was that question. Becauseshe’she’s trying to reachFoxCNN viewers and not hearingherhim out there might ruinherhis chances of doing so.I watched the whole thing. She did a good job overall with the hostile interview. I’m disappointed though she said Iran was the biggest concern for the US and not Russia. It came off neocon-ish. I hope we don’t get another Zionist for Secretary of State or we’re doomed for more instability in the Middle East. I also don’t get how Russia isn’t our number one enemy when they’re still fucking with our elections and pushing Trump.
Let’s recognize the possibility, at least, that as VP she is privy to information aboutnIran that the rest of us are not.
Remember that Iran is currently providing drones to Russia, so it’s not as if they are fully separate threats. I would say both are at the moment big concerns, so I can see where the answer is coming from. At the same time, the primary reason for our current struggles with Iran is that Trump sabotaged the Iran nuclear deal. On the other hand, the struggles with Russia are primarily related to Putin.
Because Iran is also fucking with our elections and threatening the life of at least one presidential candidate. Not to mention instability in the Middle East.
Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson: “Kamala came to Fox to stack bodies.”
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…and on a more serious note:
Former New York Congressman Max Rose called it “a home run, because she sent the one message that needs to be sent, which was, ‘I will go anywhere at any time and show the courage necessary to speak to every American,’ because that’s what a real president does. The primary critique against her prior to this point was that she was not doing enough interviews. No one thought that the Fox News interview was going to go swimmingly every step of the way. Everyone knew it would be adversarial, but she showed exactly what she needed to show, which was that she is a leader, ready to be president on Day One.”
The interview was interesting and glad candidates are willing to go into these hostile territories even if the conversation falls on deaf ears. For me, I was never undecided. I am voting Democrat.
What I want to know: will a Kamala-Walz adminstration have a unified house and senate to push this country forward (getting Roe v Wade codified to start)? All of this focus/media attention on the presidential elections but we need to flip seats.
What’s the temperature across the country right now?
It’s going to be really challenging for Democrats to win the Senate this year. The map is just really challenging and they’re defending a lot more seats. Anything is possible but it’ll take some upsets. https://www.270towin.com/2024-senate-election-predictions/
President and House are toss-ups. But if Kamala wins, 2026’s Senate elections look to strongly favor Democrats.
There’s good odds of flipping the house back, and we’ve got a decent chance of keeping the senate or getting a 49-50-1 senate with a union leader Indepdent from Nebraska
The campaigns themselves do also focus on those down ballot races. We can help with those!
Find opportunities to volunteer for dems around you and online
Write letters to voters in competitive downballot races (or swing states too)
Donate or volunteer for the Nebraska Indepdent Dan Osborn for senate (no dem running by intention)
Agreed we gotta vote blue down ballot in order for any real change to be possible. Im hoping that people realize what a threat the republican party has become to the very soul of what America stands for. So here’s hoping.
She brought her platter to serve him up a piece of his own ass.
Idk how any swing voter doesn’t come away from that interview thinking Harris did very well, and the interviewer was beyond incompetent with his interruptions.
Don’t we, as people opposed to a Trump presidency, wish interviewers were more controlling over a Trump as he avoids direct questions?
I don’t know how long you’ve been around to observe political discourse but no politician ever directly answers a question. This was something I observed as a child watching presidential debates. It annoyed the heck out of me - just answer the question. Instead, they take a kernel of the question to reply with a scripted response. It’s what they’re trained to do. This is more problematic today as responses are edited and reposted on social media.
Frankly, from the few clips I’ve watched, I thought Baier did great and wish more interviewers were as competent as he.
Whether or not Harris did well is another question. I’m seeing a wide array of opinions - r/conservative, while not swing voters are also not liberal voters, claim she was destroyed. I haven’t watched enough to say.
There’s no undecided voters, just uneducated voters and people ashamed to vote Fascism
There are people undecided on whether they will be voters. Plenty of people who would vote Republican who could not bring themselves to vote Democrat even against fascism, or a candidate with dementia, or a felon, might be convinced to just stay home. And plenty left-leaning types who can’t be assed to go to a ballot box might find the motivation when they have someone that actually seems presidential, who they might want to have as a president (when apparently the threat of fascism wasn’t enough of a motivation).
That’s a good clip, well worth the very short time needed to watch it.
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I have no idea why any Dem would go on Fox News. It just gives them an air of legitimacy. You’re not going to change the minds of anyone that watches that channel. Just ask anyone with a family member who has been brainwashed by that toxic trash.
While it’s true you can’t reason someone out of a belief that they didn’t reason themselves into, I think this may be surprisingly effective. It’s not a clip on social media, it’s not a meme, it’s an interview with a real person from the same source they get their daily Trump booster from anyway.
For some, it may strike an emotional blow seeing the woman that Trump has vilified and cartoonishly caricaturized being strong and intelligent while he won’t debate and at his own events rambles (or dances). She looks strong and he looks weak. Most will shake it off, but if even 1% decide just not to vote for Trump, it will probably be enough to swing some states. This wasn’t primarily a call to reason or to change minds, it was a swing at making them doubt Trump and his message. The only way to counter someone like him is ridicule or stirring up doubts. I hate that this kind of thing is what it may take to beat him, but she did it well and it wouldn’t have worked anywhere else but Fox News.
Not all Fox news viewers are the regular fox news watchers that are deep into their spin. It’s often turned on in random buildings and such
It doesn’t have to even change someone’s mind all that much to be helpful for a campaign. If it even convinces some that Harris is not quite as [insert scary term] as they previously thought, they might not feel as much need to turn up to vote against her. Tiny percentage changes in turnout matter here
It does mean you’re going to get airtime to hospital / doctor waiting room captive audiences everywhere
