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.
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.”
My old boss personally pushed Rose out behind the scenes, woke up, can’t bring his wife back from Trump now.
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?
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.
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.
Ah, 2026 - that’s a bit of good news that I wasn’t expecting. I guess it’s too soon to know if Dems will retain the House then, but once Dems control all three -
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.
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).
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 about Iran that the rest of us are not.
Let’s also recognize the fact that she cares more about aipac money than she does about doing anything to stop the genocide of Gaza by the Israeli terrorist regime
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.
That is calculated I think… Having been stuck in forced proximity to Conservatives for awhile the party line is that Russia isn’t as bad as people make it out to be, Putin is a good guy, the left is constructing Russia as a boogey man when they do “so much right”.
Kamala I think is pretty adept at code switching. When dealing with Conservative audiences you pick your battles because if you trip too hard on one of their landmines where you have to go on a long fight to up end one of their propaganda efforts then chances are they stop listening to everything.
Your move Trump, go on MSNBC, doesn’t have to be Maddow, just actually go and don’t storm off to throw hamburgers at the wall while pooping your pants
Best I can do is shitting his pants on a terrible podcast.
That’s a good clip, well worth the very short time needed to watch it.
Great clip, agreed. During Kamalas response, it shows bret twice, first he has a smug smile because he thinks he’s tripped her up. The second time it cuts to him that smile is gone, because he knows she’s killing it.
She’s driving home right now with Brett Baier’s balls in her purse.
Kamala Harris took her message to Fox and filled in the viewers on areas that Fox never ever covered. She put a light in a very dark place. It is bound to help her a lot.
I think, at best, this interview is a non-event. It’s not going to make a difference with conservatives and it’s not going to make a difference with her own base. Probably not for independents either. The biggest win is probably that she can say she did it, and Trump is too afraid to do the same.
It’s not going to make a difference with conservatives
It’s not going to make a difference with MAGAs. Nothing will. But the hold-their-nose Republicans are already starting to question whether or not everything they have been told about her is true, and casting further doubt on that could be enough to get them to leave the “President” line on the ballot blank. Seeing her responses, unfiltered by a pundit, could absolutely start that questioning. It could even start dominoes falling in their head that end up with a party affiliation shift in 2028 or 2032.
and it’s not going to make a difference with her own base.
As you can see in this very thread, her excellent performance is definitely infusing more enthusiasm into her base. There’s already a huge enthusiasm gap between the two candidates, and she’s running up the score. That makes a measurable difference.
Probably not for independents either.
Actually—
The biggest win is probably that she can say she did it, and Trump is too afraid to do the same.
—I think this right here actually helps her with independents quite a bit. The ones I’ve talked to value discourse so much that hearing she’s willing to engage with the other side like this might make them take notice.
Hope you’re right
Nah the win is all the people who are oblivious to politics and only go to places that show fox news getting to see the real her.
There are a ton of people who only watch fix not by choice but because that’s the only station on at the various places they go like restaurants, bars etc.
It’s also speaking to people who claim to be trump supporters but are really looking for Republican light.
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.
It does mean you’re going to get airtime to hospital / doctor waiting room captive audiences everywhere
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how Trump would fair
Well, bone apple tea!
