Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris campaigns in Washington Crossing, Pa., on Oct. 16, 2024. Ryan Collerd/AFP via Getty Images
Fox News host Bret Baier constantly interrupted Kamala Harris in interview
So points go to Harris in the courage department, while Trump maintains his “weak man who pretends he’s tough” image.
Fox News host Bret Baier was the chosen questioner for Harris’ interview, and he behaved very much like a man with little respect for what a powerful woman has to say. His questions were pointed, which is fine, and he relentlessly asked follow-up question, which is also fine. But Baier barely let the sitting vice president get a word in edgewise, talking over her constantly throughout the interview, interrupting her over and over again.
Fox News anchor Bret Baier pleads with the crowd to quiet down to keep things moving at Fiserv Forum during the first 2023 Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK
Baier went after Harris with a persistence and viciousness his network has never come close to using on Trump.
Trump fans and his many minions at Fox News will undoubtedly say Harris failed miserably, but the truth, for people operating outside the bubble of insanity, is she more than held her own in a wildly adversarial situation.
Harris called out Fox News' disingenuous Trump clip
At one point Baier showed a clip – ironically from an earlier softball Fox News interview of Trump – in which the former president tried to downplay his recent unhinged ramblings about how Americans who don’t support him are “the enemy from within.”
Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump visits Fox News broadcaster Harris Faulkner for a townhall event on Oct. 15, 2024 in Cumming, Ga. Megan Varner, Getty Images
Harris swiftly called Baier out : “I’m sorry and, with all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying about the enemy within, that he has repeated when he’s speaking about the American people. That’s not what you just showed.”
The questions were justifiably tough, and the vice president absolutely dodged several of the harder callouts on the Biden administration’s immigration policies. But what the interview showed is Harris can more than hold her own in a wildly hostile environment, something most people already knew but Fox News viewers willing to be honest with themselves probably were surprised to see.
Above all, though, what matters is Harris sat there and took it. She went into a Fox News interview – which in and of itself is a sign her campaign is confident and is looking to expand her reach to conservative and independent voters – and she didn’t storm out . She didn’t whine about or insult the interviewer for asking tough questions.
That’s a lot more than anyone can say about Donald Trump.
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