CNN Panelist Slams Kamala Harris’s Interview on Network as ‘Weak,’ ‘Mushy’: ‘Don’t Think It Worked Out Very Well for Her’

A CNN panelist broke with some of the more positive reviews of Vice President Kamala Harris’s interview with the network the night before, arguing she was “weak” and “artificial.”

Republican strategist Brad Todd joined Manu Raju on CNN This Morning on Friday and offered a blunt review of Harris’s joint sitdown with her running mate Tim Walz and CNN’s Dana Bash. Todd mocked Harris for selling herself as the candidate for change when she’s currently the vice president.

“I think we saw why it took her 35 days to do an interview. She was mushy, she was weak, and it was artificial. It felt contrived the whole way. In her second sentence, she said we need a new way forward, but she’s the incumbent vice president, so she made the case for change in her second sentence in the interview,” Todd said.

The strategist added, “I don’t think it worked out very well for her.”

CNN political commentator Kate Bedingfield pushed back saying Harris came across as confident in answering both a changed position on banning fracking and in selling herself as the “change candidate” while she currently sits in the White House.

“I think she did more than just get through it,” Bedingfield pushed back.

The commentator said she effectively answered both points.

“She had to answer big questions about changes in her positions from 2019 and also how she’s going to handle this question of being vice president, how are you the change candidate if you are the vice president,” she said. “And I thought she did both of those things quite effectively.”

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