Vice President Kamala Harris’s election chances have seemingly been diminishing over the last few days, possibly marred by the gushfest interview with ABC’s The View when she said nothing came to mind when asked if she’d change anything about how the Biden administration had acted the last four years. In response to the backslide on Monday, View co-host Sunny Hostin blamed the media and demanded they do more to buoy her campaign.
Hostin began her screed by parroting her claim from September after the Democratic National Convention that Harris was “running a flawless campaign.”
“Look, I think that Kamala Harris has been running a flawless campaign, and that's why she raised billions of dollars -- a billion dollars,” she said. “I think it's because of the momentum that she has. I think it's because people believe in her. And I think people are showing that by the amount of money that they're willing to give to the campaign.”
She then lashed out at media for not being pro-Harris enough because they dared to highlight some elements of the Democratic Party that are worried about how the elections was looking:
I think we have the press to blame for a lot of this. About, you know -- Whoopi, you always say, you don't believe in polls. I'm with you now because I'm reading the press. First it was Kamala's not doing enough press. Then she goes on this huge press tour. She was here with us. I thought she was fantastic. She was energetic. The crowd went wild. It was electric. CNN, ‘Democrats grow anxious.’ Axios, ‘blue wall blues.’ Fox, ‘Dems are scared to death.’ No, Dems are not scared to death, Dems are pumped.
Once again proving Media Research Center studies about the bias present on the show and at ABC News correct, she demanded they only report negative things about Trump:
What I would like the press to talk a little bit more about is Trump is in hiding. He didn't do the 60 Minutes interview. He does not want to do another debate. He's in mental decline. Obama's speech was captivating in Pittsburgh, yet instead of talking about that, we're talking about what he said before the speech to black men.
“I think that the media has to do a much better job than what they're doing,” she commanded.
A few minutes later, co-host Sara Haines wanted “to push back a little on Sunny's comment that it's a flawless campaign.”
Her biggest piece of evidence of how the Harris campaign was not in fact “flawless,” was Harris’s response to Hostin’s question during what she seemed to admit was their “friendly” interview:
HAINES: But I think the criticism of people who it's not resonating with; she went on a media blitz and it was mostly friendly interviews. There was some questions, but she didn't seem prepared. The question you asked her got a ton of press about ‘how would you change yourself?’ If this is an election of change, she needs to --
HOSTIN: Well, what would your administration do differently than a Biden administration?
HAINES: And she said, not one things comes to mind.
“And she's headed into a media blitz, so these are the questions you're going to get. And so, what I'm confused about is either she wasn't prepared, which I don't think so because I think she over-prepares, or she doesn't have a difference to sell,” Haines lamented.
After Hostin tried to downplay what happened, Haines countered: “But my point here is that I wouldn't go flawless on it because there were missed opportunities.”
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
October 14, 2024
11:04:49 a.m. Eastern(…)
SUNNY HOSTIN: Look, I think that Kamala Harris has been running a flawless campaign, and that's why she raised billions of dollars -- a billion dollars. I think it's because of the momentum that she has. I think it's because people believe in her. And I think people are showing that by the amount of money that they're willing to give to the campaign.
I think we have the press to blame for a lot of this. About, you know -- Whoopi, you always say, you don't believe in polls. I'm with you now because I'm reading the press. First it was Kamala's not doing enough press. Then she goes on this huge press tour. She was here with us. I thought she was fantastic. She was energetic. The crowd went wild. It was electric. CNN, ‘Democrats grow anxious.’ Axios, ‘blue wall blues.’ Fox, ‘Dems are scared to death.’ No, Dems are not scared to death, Dems are pumped.
What I would like the press to talk a little bit more about is Trump is in hiding. He didn't do the 60 Minutes interview. He does not want to do another debate. He's in mental decline. Obama's speech was captivating in Pittsburgh, yet instead of talking about that, we're talking about what he said before the speech to black men.
I think that the media has to do a much better job than what they're doing.
(…)
11:07:49 a.m. Eastern
SARA HAINES: Well, one thing I would say, and I'm going to push back a little on Sunny's comment that it's a flawless campaign and this is why I'll say this: I am voting for Kamala Harris because we talked about this last week, all the whys. But I think the criticism of people who it's not resonating with; she went on a media blitz and it was mostly friendly interviews. There was some questions, but she didn't seem prepared. The question you asked her got a ton of press about ‘how would you change yourself?’ If this is an election of change, she needs to --
HOSTIN: Well, what would your administration do differently than a Biden administration?
HAINES: And she said, not one things comes to mind. And she's headed into a media blitz, so these are the questions you're going to get. And so, what I'm confused about is either she wasn't prepared, which I don't think so because I think she over-prepares, or she doesn't have a difference to sell.
HOSTIN: Well, she did sell a difference at the end.
HAINES: She did eventually.
HOSTIN: Yes, she did.
HAINES: But my point here is that I wouldn't go flawless on it because there were missed opportunities. And I think what people are not -- they're criticizing back what their problems are, is I don't think they fully understand -- they know why she's not Donald Trump, but they don't know why she's not president Biden, and I think she needs to be both of those things in an election of change.
And I also think, aside from beating Donald Trump, she needs to be clear to voters as to why she wants the job.
HOSTIN: But don't you think they know she definitely isn't Donald Trump?
HAINES: That's my point. That's clear, but I need -- I think she also needs to distinguish herself.
[Crosstalk]
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