Once again, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) demonstrated how best to deal with the Regime Media when they attempt to impose a Democrat-friendly narrative. The key is to immediately reject the questioner’s false, loaded premise and force them to defend their questions.
Watch as Cotton forces Jon Karl to defend Kamala Harris’s apparent policy flip-flops:
On #ThisWeek, @JonKarl unaware of Harris’s stance against private health insurance. When @SenTomCotton notes it, Karl: “What do you mean taking away health insurance? What are talking about?” Then: “That is not her position now....clearly making an effort to move to the middle.” pic.twitter.com/dLk3LEnuCp
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ABC THIS WEEK
8/25/24
9:24 AM
TOM COTTON: And President Trump is going to draw a sharp contrast with Kamala Harris, who has supported things like decriminalizing illegal immigration or giving taxpayer-funded health insurance to illegal aliens or taking away health insurance on the job for 170 million Americans, banning gas cars, confiscating firearms. These are all positions…
JON KARL: What do you mean taking away health insurance? What are you talking about?
COTTON: She said when she ran for president that she wants to eliminate private health insurance on the job for 170 million Americans, Jon.
KARL: Yeah, I mean, th- that is not her position now. She no longer…
COTTON: How do you know that's not her position? How do you know that's not her position?
KARL: I mean, she- she said she no longer supports medicare for all.
COTTON: She has not said that. She has not said that. Maybe anonymous aides on a Friday night have said that, but the last thing that she said on most of these topics…
KARL: This was not a radical convention. She- she- she- as you heard me go through with Bernie Sanders, she is not taking the positions of the far left of her party. She's clearly making an effort to move to the middle.
COTTON: I did hear what you said to Senator Sanders, and I thought it was clear that he is very disappointed that she's taking these efforts not to change her positions, but to hide her positions, Jon. The American people are totally justified to conclude that Kamala Harris is a dangerous San Francisco liberal, based on what she campaigned on the last time she ran for president and what this administration has done the last four years. Again, you would have thought watching the Democratic convention last week, that the Democrats are not in office, that they're not in power, that they're campaigning against an incumbent Republican, when in reality she's been part of the failures of the Biden-Harris administration for four years. And when she campaigned for president in her own right, she did, in fact, promise things like decriminalizing illegal immigration, taking away health insurance on the job.
KARL: I mean- but that's a position she's clearly changed on…
COTTON: No, she hasn’t.
KARL: …and she said she has changed- Yes. Yes, she has.
COTTON: No. She has not. She has not said that.
Karl repeatedly and falsely asserted that Harris said she changed her position on Medicare for All. To whom did she say these things? During what interview? Had Cotton not challenged Karl, that underlying premise would have been baked into the rest of the interview. Instead, Karl was forced to defend that ground.
The Regime Media, desperate to manufacture a moderate Harris candidacy, have enabled all sorts of policy shifts while at the same time enabling the campaign’s ongoing media silence. The ambiguity is strategic and intentional.
To his credit, Cotton cut through the smoke and exposed this fakery.
