Harris assured that his political values have not changed. According to Harris, the United States will continue to support Israel.
Juri von Bonsdorff, reporter for the USA
WASHINGTON Horrible Harris the express campaign so far has progressed like a bullet train from station to station.
Harris and his campaign officials have done everything right.
President Joe Biden after giving up the race, Harris immediately took the reins and united the party.
He got the financiers to loosen their purse strings and inspired an army of volunteers for election work.
When it came time for him to take the stage himself, his campaign speech was both punchy and optimistic, appealing to both traditional Democrats and swinging middle-of-the-road noncommittals.
Harris found his inner voice, which has since carried on convincingly.
Everything has been skillfully planned, scripted and controlled.
But there comes a time in every campaign when a candidate must expose himself to questions from reporters, concerns from voters and suspicions from political rivals.
For Kamala Harris, that time came yesterday, when she sat for the maximum time in an interview to answer the questions that especially the Republicans wanted to ask her.
Harris recalled Trump’s legacy
Harris was immediately asked about the price of food and the high interest rates on mortgages.
Questions that weigh on almost every voter’s mind. Both were lower Donald Trump’s during the presidency.
Harris defended himself by reminding that Biden and Harris inherited from Trump a country where millions of Americans had lost their jobs and hundreds of thousands had died from corona.
– Our economy recovered faster than anywhere else, Harris said.
Next, Harris was asked why he has changed so many of his political positions since five years ago, when he ran for president.
Among other things, he no longer wants to ban water fracturing used by the oil and gas industry.
The method is frowned upon by environmentalists, but is widely used in the angelic state of Pennsylvania.
He also no longer supports the state-funded national healthcare system, and he has also moved from the left to the political center on the immigration issue.
– My political values have not changed, Harris assured several times.
He said that he has traveled around the country and understood how important consensus building is.
When asked about Joe Biden’s ability to work, he dodged the question and turned his attention to Donald Trump’s character traits.
No change in Israel policy
Harris also made it clear that there will be no changes to the US line in the Gaza war if he becomes president. Arms will continue to flow to Israel.
The Republicans wanted the interview to expose Harris as a hypocritical punk who tries to hide his far-left ideology, and who withheld information about Joe Biden’s mental and physical condition from the public.
Donald Trump hoped the interview would reveal that Harris is stupid.
Both goals were not achieved.
Harris answered the questions as confidently and calmly as he has campaigned in recent weeks.
For example, he did not feel it necessary to make a clear distinction with the Biden administration.
He didn’t burp or let frogs out of his mouth.
On the other hand, he didn’t shine either, or definitively cut off the wings of the Republican accusations.
It should also be noted that Harris got through the interview quite easily. The CNN reporter was not willing to press the vice president at all.
Kamala Harris’ task was to get through the interview without any mistakes. That’s what he did, and that’s why Democrats will see the interview as a victory.
But the questions won’t end there.
The next tough challenge will be in less than two weeks when Harris and Trump will have their first and possibly only election debate.
The story was updated on 30.8. 7.33am: fixed hydraulic crushing to form water fracturing.