Remember the scandal over the infamous CBS “60 Minutes” interview of Kamala Harris before the 2024 election that was edited so that they cut out a lot of her word salad in response to a question about the Israel-Hamas war?
It went from something that was basically incomprehensible to something that sounded a bit better, albeit was still pretty empty.
Then when people realized that it had been edited, CBS faced huge blowback, with people like former CBS journalist Catherine Herridge calling for the full transcript to be released. Others called for release of the full footage, to see if anything else may have been changed. But CBS refused, basically sticking a fork in whatever legitimacy they claimed to have as a news organization.
Swapping a cogent answer for interview word-salad could influence voters that were on the edge.
The intelligent / informed voters already knew her communications capabilities…thankfully, there were enough of them at the voting booth to overwhelm the attempted steal 2.0…