After nearly two months of procrastination, Kamala Harris finally did her first solo interview since shoving Joe Biden out of the presidential race. On Friday, the vice president sat down with a local ABC News affiliate in Philadelphia to answer questions for a whole 10 minutes.
Funny enough, the reporter who conducted the interview has a history of being called in when Democrat presidential nominees need a boost.
Sure enough, the questioning wasn't exactly tough, and Harris was instead asked a variety of softballs. The problem? She couldn't answer them:
TAFF: Talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people. What are one or two specific things you have in mind for that?
HARRIS: Well, I'll start with this. I grew up a middle-class kid. My mother raised my sister and me. She worked very hard. She was able to finally save up enough money to buy our first house when I was a teenager. I grew up in a community of hardworking people. You know, construction workers and nurses and teachers. I try to explain to some people who might not have had the same experience, but a lot of people will relate to this.
You know, I grew up in a neighborhood of people who were really proud of their lawn, you know, and I was raised to believe and to know that all people deserve dignity and that we as Americans have a beautiful character. You know, we have ambitions and aspirations and dreams, but not everyone necessarily has access to the resources that can help them fuel those dreams and ambitions. So, when I talk about building an opportunity economy, it is very much with the mind of investing in the ambitions and aspirations and the incredible work ethic of the American people and creating opportunity for people, for example, to start a small business.
A presidential nominee is not going to get an easier question than that. It's basically the equivalent of asking, "Tell me how amazing you are." All Harris had to do was lay out a couple of specific steps she would take to lower prices. Instead, she spent a minute-and-a-half filibustering, talking about pure irrelevancy. No person who can't afford groceries cares that she "grew up middle class" or that the people in her neighborhood mowed their lawns.
She just kept going, too. Here's her expounding on her so-called "opportunity economy":
For example, thinking about developing and creating an opportunity economy where it's about investing in areas that really need a lot of work and maybe focusing on, again, the aspirations and the dreams but also just recognizing that at this moment in time some of this stuff we could take for granted years ago, we can't take for granted anymore
Can anyone pick out an actual policy proposal in that word salad? She keeps talking about "investing" in things but doesn't specify a single thing she'd invest in. "Dreams and aspirations" are not a tangible government policy, nor does spending gobs of money do anything to help bring down costs for the middle-class. This is the same slop she served up at the debate. Yes, she was well rehearsed, but underneath the facade, there was nothing there.
Lest you think I'm just picking out the lowlights of an otherwise stellar interview, remember, this thing was only 10 minutes long, and that includes the opening pleasantries. Here are a few more clips, and at this point, I've posted about half of what she said:
Look, it's obvious she prepared a lot for the debate, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Her answers were generic tripe, but at least she delivered them well. This interview is a return to who Harris normally is, though. She's a lazy, entitled politician, and no one should listen to these exchanges and believe she has what it takes to be the President of the United States.