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Vice President Kamala Harris addressed undecided voters at a CNN-moderated town hall in Pennsylvania on Wednesday. CNN commentators criticized her responses, describing some as “word salad” when she avoided directly answering certain questions.
“The thing that would concern me is when she doesn’t want to answer a question,” commentator David Axelrod said. “Her habit is to kind of go to ‘word salad city,’ and she did that on a couple of answers. One was on Israel. Anderson asked a direct question, ‘Would you be stronger on Israel than Trump?’ And there was a seven-minute answer, but none of it related to the question he was asking.”
He continued: “On certain questions like that, on immigration, I thought she missed an opportunity because she would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration’s policies. And that’s a mistake. Sometimes you have to concede things and she didn‘t concede much.”
“What I‘m hearing from people who I have been talking to, and that is that if her goal was to close the deal, they‘re not sure she did that. And, you know, some people have asked, is she being held to a different standard? Maybe. But that‘s maybe the world that she‘s living in. And on the question of who she is, people are understanding that a little bit more,” said Dana Bash.
Here are some clips from Harris’ town hall:
Last night’s CNN townhall confirmed everything I suspected about Kamala Harris even when I was a Democrat:
She’s an unimpressive politician promoted by the media to be adored, and she is extremely uncomfortable facing the mildest pushback or requiring her to go off-script.🧵 pic.twitter.com/ooEVUu8Oa5
— Adam B. Coleman, Le Based Black (@wrong_speak) October 24, 2024
Kamala Harris tells CNN, “I may not have the answer as soon as you ask about a specific policy sometimes, because I’m gonna want to research it. I’m kind of a nerd sometimes!”
Fmr staffers agree she refuses to prepare & blames them when things go wrong.pic.twitter.com/gbDzIaeORi
— Rev. Ben Johnson (@TheRightsWriter) October 24, 2024
JUST IN: Kamala Harris tries making fun of Trump’s border wall before getting fact-checked by CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
Harris started stuttering after Cooper asked her if she supports a border wall since she is “pro-border security” now.
Cooper: You called Trump’s wall a stupid… pic.twitter.com/5R4o10mAhX
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 24, 2024
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