‘Vulnerabilities’ Were ‘Laid Bare’: Analyst Tells MSNBC Kamala Harris Couldn’t Avoid ‘Word Salads’ During Interview

Doug Heye argued on MSNBC that Vice President Kamala Harris’s “vulnerabilities” were “laid bare” in her CNN interview on Thursday, the first major sit-down she’s done since moving to the top of the Democratic Party ticket.

Heye and former Maryland Congresswoman Donna Edwards joined Ryan Nobles on Friday to analyze Harris’s interview the night before, which also included her running mate Tim Walz and CNN’s Dana Bash.

Edwards was full of far more praise for Harris, and Heye agreed with her on one point: that Harris’s answer to former President Donald Trump’s attacks that touch on her race was “pitch perfect.” Harris called it the “same old tired playbook” and said, “Next question.”

Heye, the former communications director for the Republican National Committee, called the answer a bright spot in an otherwise messy exchange.

“What Kamala Harris struggles with quite often is she gets asked a question and she gives a very long answer that goes in a million directions and is sort of this very large word salad that you can’t extrapolate, what is she saying there?” Heye said.

The analyst went on to compare Harris’s interview to a 1980 interview the late Ted Kennedy gave when he was running for president and asked why he was running. The moment is largely seen as when his presidential ambitions died a quick death.

“I thought back to 1980 when Ted Kennedy was asked a very simple question: why are you running for president? And it took him three minutes to not answer the question, which is a basic one. Harris gets caught up in this a whole lot where you just end up scratching your head, saying, what is she trying to say here? And that was a lot of what we saw last night,” Heye said.

The former communications director said Harris’s “vulnerabilities” in such live interviews were “laid bare.”

“She did some of the things she needed to, but the vulnerabilities that she has in these kinds of interviews, I think, was laid bare very early in that conversation,” he said.

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