For the Dana Bash interview on CNN, we made a list of 30 questions we'd recommend to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. CNN only touched on five of them, especially the fracking-ban question. Bash asked a very open-ended question on Harris and Biden's mental decline.
Before Tuesday's night's big presidential debate, we'd like to reprise most of these questions and add a few ones based on the latest news. Harris-Walz is arguably the most liberal ticket ever, but they are trying desperately to cover that up, so here are a wide variety of 25 questions that moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis could ask that might actually help voters make an informed choice in a couple of months.
- Should death row inmates have the right to vote?
- Do you support the elimination of private health insurance?
- How can you claim to unite the country when you were named the most liberal senator in 2019?
- Should biological males, who identify as women, be allowed to compete in women’s sports?
- Do you support any limits on abortion?
- When does life begin?
- Do you support the efforts of Democrats to keep some candidates (Jill Stein, Cornel West) off the ballot and try to keep some candidates (RFK Jr.) on the ballot after they've left the race? Is this pro-democracy?
- Now that Hunter Biden has pleaded guilty to tax evasion, do you have any regrets about your advocacy of Trump's impeachment over seeking more information on Hunter's influence-peddling?
- Would you overturn President Biden’s ban on LNG exports? If not, how can you really claim to be tough on Russia?
- What is the greater national security threat? China or climate change?
- Who will be more prevalent in a Harris Administration: environmentalists or unions with EV concerns?
- How can voters trust your national security judgement when, in 2019, you said Donald Trump was the greatest threat to U.S. national security?
- Given October 7 and everything that has happened since, was it a mistake for President Biden to take the Houthis off the terrorist organization list?
- Do you support ending the Senate filibuster?
- Do you support adding justices to the Supreme Court?
- How can voters trust you on the economy when even liberal Washington Post columnists are attacking your price control plan?
- How do you plan to tackle the national debt without serious spending reforms?
- Did President Biden overspend, causing inflation?
- Did colleges violate Title VI by not ending anti-Israel and often anti-Semitic demonstrations earlier this year?
- Is America a systemically racist country?
- Did you conceal anything about Biden’s mental or physical condition from the American people?
- How can you claim to be the pro-democracy candidate when you were essentially appointed as nominee?
- Did you really work at McDonald's? You never mentioned it until you decided to run for president?
- How can you complain about Trump exaggerating his record when your running mate Tim Walz has claimed to have won awards he never won?
- Why are you suggesting Trump will cut Social Security and Medicare when he has explicitly promised not to cut it, and he didn't cut these programs during his presidency?
Asking the questions on this list will be a good test of ABC's desire to make the election about issues rather than personalities.
