The Dem presidential ticket of Vice President Harris and Governor Tim Walz appeared for an alleged interview by Dana Bash on CNN last night. As I saw it, it should be all over for Harris, Walz, Bash, and CNN. What a pathetic display.
The interview in Georgia had been recorded during the afternoon. The questions were lighter than air — as were Harris’s responses. Bash’s lame questions elicited vacuous responses. Harris struggled to emulate a serious person. Bash appears to be vying for a position in comms with a Harris administration.
Walz spoke briefly. He does not wear well. His alleged wielding of weapons in war — it was a grammatical mistake. If this is Father Knows Best, cue the laugh track.
CNN has posted video of the interview in three parts on YouTube that are accessible here. CNN has posted a transcript of the interview here.
This is how it opened:
BASH: Madam Vice President, Governor Walz, thank you so much for sitting down with me and bringing the bus. Bus tour is well underway here in Georgia. You have less time to make your case to voters than any candidate in modern American history. The voters are really eager to hear what your plans are. If you are elected, what would you do on day one in the White House?
HARRIS: Well, there are a number of things. I will tell you first and foremost one of my highest priorities is to do what we can to support and strengthen the middle class. When I look at the aspirations, the goals, the ambitions of the American people, I think that people are ready for a new way forward in a way that generations of Americans have been fueled by — by hope and by optimism.
I think sadly in the last decade, we have had in the former president someone who has really been pushing an agenda and an environment that is about diminishing the character and the strength of who we are as Americans — really dividing our nation. And I think people are ready to turn the page on that.
BASH: So what would you do day one?
HARRIS: Day one, it’s gonna be about one, implementing my plan for what I call an opportunity economy. I’ve already laid out a number of proposals in that regard, which include what we’re gonna do to bring down the cost of everyday goods, what we’re gonna do to invest in America’s small businesses, what we’re gonna do to invest in families.
For example, extending the child tax credit to $6,000 for families for the first year of their child’s life to help them buy a car seat, to help them buy baby clothes, a crib. There’s the work that we’re gonna do that is about investing in the American family around affordable housing, a big issue in our country right now. So there are a number of things on day one.
BASH: What about you?
WALZ: Well, I’m excited about this agenda, too…
It went downhill from there:
BASH: So you have been vice president for three and a half years. The steps that you’re talking about now, why haven’t you done them already?
HARRIS: Well, first of all, we had to recover as an economy, and we have done that. I’m very proud of the work that we have done that has brought inflation down to less than 3%, the work that we have done to cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors. Donald Trump said he was gonna do a number of things, including allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. Never happened. We did it.
So now, and I — as I travel in the state of Georgia and around our country, the number of seniors that have benefited, I’ve met — I was in Nevada recently. A grandmother who showed me her receipts. And before we capped the cost of insulin for seniors at $35 a month she was paying hundreds of dollars, up to thousands of dollars a month for her insulin. She’s not doing that any longer.
Forget the insulin. Isn’t this what CBD is for? With respect to just about every response she formulated, as I say, misdirection was the order of the day.
When it came to Israel and Hamas, Harris yammered (again) about “a two-state solution.” What is beyond “You’ve got to be kidding me”?
Don’t think about this too hard: “I am so proud to be running with Tim Walz for president of the United States and to bring America what I believe the American people deserve, which is a new way forward, and turn the page on the last decade of what I believe has been contrary to where the spirit of our country really lies.” We are not to notice that the last four years have been particularly grueling.
Don’t think about anything too hard. Don’t think.
