Turns out, Kamala's "New Way Forward" is actually just the same old, same old.
During her love-in of an appearance on The View yesterday, Kamala Harris was gingerly asked the most obvious possible question: would she have done anything differently from President Biden during the past four years?
After a deer-in-the-headlights pause, Harris stammered out: "Uh, uh, there is not a thing that comes to mind."
As Mark Halperin has put it [YouTube at 6:45]:
"She reacted to that obviously expected question as if she was woken up in the middle of the night, and someone said, what is the air temperature on Mars?"
On today's CNN This Morning, even host Kasie Hunt had to admit:
"I was a little bit surprised she didn't have a more specific answer to that question, because it does seem like it's something we're seeing in polls; that people seem to say that they want to know a little bit more about it."
Republican strategist Kristen Soltis Anderson agreed, saying that Kamala could easily have pivoted to some of her new policy proposals, such as her homebuyer tax credit. Soltis Anderson predicted that, given the way Harris has been sheltered, "I don't think this will be the only stumble we see before election day."
And when the inevitable happens, NewsBusters will be there to catch Kamala's next stumble!
And Kamala, we're here to help. Just in case you're ever hit with Halperin's question, the average surface temperature on Mars is -85F.
Here's the transcript.
CNN This Morning
10/9/24
6:14 am EDTSUNNY HOSTIN: If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?
KAMALA HARRIS: Uh, uh, there has is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of -- and I've been a part of, of, of most of the decisions that have had impact.
KASIE HUNT: Vice President Kamala Harris, trying to thread a needle, portraying herself as a candidate who can deliver the change that voters want, while still remaining loyal to the president she serves alongside.
Her comments on The View Tuesday, sparking this response from Donald Trump's running mate, JD Vance.
JD VANCE: Kamala Harris's economic policy -- you heard her say it on The View -- it's to do exactly what Joe Biden did. And it's going to lead to the exact same place: higher inflation, fewer Americans with good jobs, and a manufacturing sector that we're shipping to China instead of building right here, in the great City of Detroit.
HUNT: All right, panel's here. Zolan Kanno-Youngs, White House correspondent for the New York Times. Kendra Barkoff, former press secretary to Joe Biden, and Republican strategist and pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson. Welcome to all of you. Thank you so much for being here.
Kristen, I want to start with you on Kamala Harris here, because I was a little bit surprised she didn't have any more specific answer to that question. Because it it does seem like it's something we're seeing in polls, that people seem to say that they want to know a little bit more about her. What did you make of it?
KRISTEN SOLTIS ANDERSON: I agree with you that I was surprised she didn't have a better answer, because it's an obvious question. It is one of the central questions of this campaign right now. If voters are frustrated with the status
quo, what would be different?And it's also a little baffling because she does have a good answer. You could very easily say, look, I don't want to be in the business of bashing the guy with whom I've served for the last four years. But clearly there are some things I'd do differently, because I've proposed some policies that would be knew under my administration. And she could immediately pivot to things like homebuyer tax credit, and so on and so forth.
HUNT: She does have a list.
SOLTIS ANDERSON: She does have some things, and so it is just wild to me that she wasn't more prepared. And this really speaks to the peril of having been, I think, kind of sheltered in the campaign for the last couple of weeks, and now suddenly doing this big media blitz. Is, you're going to see a little -- I don't think this will be the only stumble we see before election day.
