Kamala Harris finally did her first post-coronation interview on CNN with Dana Bash on Thursday, with the help of her emotional support Governor, Tim Walz. It was taped —despite the “live” box at the bottom of the screen — so we don’t know what, if anything, may have been edited out of it.
But if what they showed was the best of it, it didn’t serve them or Kamala Harris well. Harris offered both a festival of lies and a word salad, with Bash not really holding her feet to the fire on any of it. Indeed, she was even giving her leading questions at one point that might help her out.
Now, in the aftermath, even CNN didn’t think it was that great.
Democratic operative David Axelrod said he didn’t think that she “moved the ball that much forward.”