Joyful Campaign: ‘Screaming’ Kamala Harris Gets Heated with Fox News’s Bret Baier
There was no “joy” during Vice President Kamala Harris interview with Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier on Wednesday.
Harris’s heated and often combative responses to Baier’s questions contradict the so-called “joyful campaign” Harris has vowed to run amid praise from the media.
“[T]hroughout the campaign so far, the public seen never seen Harris get mad—in fact, she’s full of joy,” the Times’ Kara Alaimo reported in September. “Her campaign is playfully tapping into the latest social media trends and memes. And rather than complaining and insulting people like Donald Trump, she’s laughing and smiling on the campaign trail.”
The Trump War Room characterized Harris as “screaming” at Baier, who asked tough questions of the presidential hopeful:
The exchanges grew so combative that Baier apologized for appearing to rattle Harris. “We are speaking over each other,” Bairer said. “I apologize.”
David Plouffe, a senior advisor to Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign, whined on X that the interview was an “ambush,” seemingly trying to play damage control over his candidates’ behavior:
‘I’m Not Joe Biden’: Kamala Harris Tries to Distance Herself from Policy Failures in Fox News Interview
Vice President Kamala Harris tried to separate herself from the Biden-Harris administration’s record during a Wednesday interview on Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier.
Under the Biden-Harris administration, costs increased by about 20 percent across the board, Russia invaded Ukraine, Hamas and Iran attacked Israel, illegal migrants invaded the southern border, and the nation suffered the deadly Afghan withdrawal.
“More than 70% of Americans say the country is on the wrong track. If you’re turning the page, you’ve been in office for 3.5 years,” Baier said. “What would the major changes be and what would stay the same?”
“Well, I mean, I’m obviously not Joe Biden, and so that would be one change,” she said without speaking about a policy. “And Donald Trump has been running for office.”
Harris previously said on The View that “nothing comes to mind” when asked about what she would have done differently from the last four years.
“Your campaign slogan is a new way forward, and it’s time to turn the page. You’ve been vice president for three and a half years. So what are you turning the page from?” Baier asked.
“What I’m talking about is that over the last decade,” Harris pivoted to speak about Trump. “He is unfit to serve, that he is unstable, that he is dangerous, and that people are exhausted with someone who professes to be a leader who spends full time demeaning and engaging in personal grievances, and it’s about him. American people, people are tired of that.”
Harris, who once campaigned as an agent of change, shattered that image in three separate interviews when she failed to name any specific policy she would change from the past four years.
The whiplash solidified Biden’s bizarre and repeated attempts to tie Harris to their failures as if he was overtly attempting to tank her candidacy after Democrats pushed him aside in July.
Harris’s statement on The View was not an outlier. Hours later on CBS’s Late Show with Steve Colbert, Harris refused again to provide any specific policy from the last four years she would change. “What would the major changes be, and what would stay the same?” Colbert asked.
Harris replied with a canned answer: “I’m obviously not Joe Biden.”
Harris faces a catch-22: She cannot campaign on policies to fix crime, inflation, and border security without undermining the Biden-Harris administration’s policies, yet she must tout the administration’s policies to validate her record and candidacy.
Bret Baier Questions Rattled Kamala Harris on Deadly Consequences of Her Open Border Policies in Fox News Interview
Vice President Kamala Harris faced tough questions on the southern border invasion under the Biden-Harris administration during a Wednesday Fox News Channel’s Special Report interview with Bret Baier.
The interview was the first interview in which Harris faced tough follow-up questions that appeared to put Harris on the back foot.
“Do you regret the decision to terminate Remain in Mexico at the beginning of your administration, at the beginning of our administration, within practically hours of taking the oath? Baier asked.
Harris did not directly answer the question.
“What I’m saying to you, do you owe those families an apology?” Baier asked in a follow-up question about the alleged victims of migrant crime against Jocelyn Gary, Rachel Moran, and Laken Riley.
“Those victims have experienced for a loss that should not have occurred. So that is true,” Harris said, not apologizing to the victims.
“So do you owe them an apology?” he asked again.
“What I should tell you, that I am so sorry for her loss. I’m so sorry for her loss, sincerely,” she said.
Harris then claimed that “Congress, ultimately, is the only place that that’s going to get fixed.”
Breitbart News previously fact checked her repeated claim as false.
Laws to prevent illegal entry and to secure the southern border are already on the books.
Moreover, since 2021, the Biden-Harris administration reversed or undid many of the Trump-era border policies; they suspended the Remain in Mexico policy on the administration’s first day in office, for example.
