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Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with Fox News’s Bret Baier for a half-hour interview in which Baier politely took no prisoners, pressing Harris on the issues most voters cite as their top concerns. Harris took almost zero accountability for the Biden-Harris administration’s failures and offered few answers on her specific policy positions, pivoting instead to besmirching rival Donald Trump and provide offerings from her platitude grab-bag.
Baier hit the ground running by asking Harris how many illegal immigrants she thought her administration has released to date — “One, 2 million?” Harris replied, “It’s an important discussion people want to have,” and when Baier revealed the number has reached 6 million illegals and asked if Harris regretted the fact that Biden-Harris had reversed Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” border policy, Harris blamed Congress for not passing a bill that would have, according to her, fixed the immigration system.
Baier noted that the bill was not brought for a vote and provided Harris with a visual list of six Democrats (including Bernie Sanders) who opposed the legislation. Harris claimed she and Biden “recognized from day one” that immigration was a “priority for us as a nation” and that the administration has been focused on “fixing the problem,” whereas Trump is more focused on “[running] on a problem” and “playing political games with an issue” than fixing it.
Baier then named several women who had been brutally assaulted and murdered by illegal immigrants released under the Biden-Harris administration and broached the subject of former president Bill Clinton’s admission that University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley would not have been killed by illegal immigrant Jose Ibarra were it not for the Biden-Harris immigration policies. Baier played for Harris the tearful testimony of the mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, a twelve-year-old girl abducted and killed by an illegal immigrant, attesting to this truth and asked Harris if she owed these families an apology. Harris responded that she was “so sorry for their loss,” that she can’t imagine the pain of what these families must have endured. Such a loss “should not have occurred,” she said, and then went back to blaming it on the non-passage of the border bill, because, “there was a solution, Brett.”
Harris then admitted the border has been broken for some time (though she’s also infamously claimed “the border is secure”), but that “Congress is the only place that this is going to get fixed.” Baier reminded her of the ninety Trump administration executive orders relating to border security that the Biden-Harris administration rescinded. But again, according to Harris, it all comes down to that gosh-darn border security bill.
Baier asked Harris if she would support providing drivers’ licenses, healthcare and other privileges to illegal immigrants, as her running mate Tim Walz signed these mandates into law. She replied that in such instances, she would “follow the law.”
Likewise on the matter of providing taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries to imprisoned illegal migrants. “I will follow the law” on that, said Harris, who went on to claim the Trump administration followed such a law, despite, per Baier’s fact-check, zero sex-change surgeries for illegal, imprisoned migrants happened under his administration’s watch.
Baier asked Harris why more Americans trust Trump on the economy than they trust her, and she said that it’s clear “to those who study how economic policy works” that people are “ready to chart a new way forward.” Baier then asked Harris why she’s repeatedly said she would not have done anything differently from President Biden. Since Harris has been in office for three and a half years, 79 percent of the country say we’re on the wrong track, and she is now touting “a new way forward,” what is it, exactly, she’s turning the page from?
Using a favorite catchphrase pinched from President Obama, a testy Harris insisted, “Let me be very clear,” and pointed out that she’s not running a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency, because she has “different life experiences…”
Harris appeared to become more uncomfortable and confounded as the interview progressed, and when the cackling VP insisted Baier knew what she was talking about when she spoke of a “new way forward,” and Baier insisted actually, he did not, Harris said it was a new way forward from “the last decade” and “Donald Trump’s rhetoric” designed to divide our country.
Harris alleged Trump is “misguided, unstable, mentally not stable” — the perfect segue for Baier to ask Harris, “When did you notice [President Biden’s] mental faculties were diminished?”
Three astonished blinks later, and Harris said Biden has had “the judgment and the experience to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf on the American people.”
“There were no concerns with—”
“Joe Biden is not on the ballot.”
Baier pushed back on George Clooney’s observation after a fundraiser earlier this year that he was “not the same Joe Biden” Clooney had known before. Yet, per Harris, “I think the American people have concerns about Donald Trump.”
Well then. What about America’s number-one enemy? China? Er… Iran, according to Harris? Why did the Biden-Harris administration allow “the biggest threat” we face — Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis — to be funded through billions of dollars of oil profits (Baier provided a useful graphic)? In what could be understood between Baier and Harris talking over one another toward the end of the interview, Harris insisted she spent “several hours on each occasion” in the Situation Room when Iran posed a threat to Israel working with the heads of our military to defend and support Israel.
A hard wrap led Baier to remind viewers the point of the interview was to see where Kamala Harris was in 2019 and where she is now. The answer seems to be that not even Kamala knows. Voters surely can’t be satisfied.
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