Diana Glebova writes for the New York Post about an interesting moment during an event designed to boost Kamala Harris’ presidential bid.
Kamala Harris on Thursday night attended a star-studded campaign event hosted by Oprah Winfrey, who was forced to nudge the vice president to get to the point during a rambling response to a policy question posed by the audience.
The two-hour “Unite for America” livestream event from Michigan was meant to highlight the grassroots organizers who are backing Harris and give voters an opportunity to ask her about her platform — but the Democratic presidential nominee didn’t offer any new policy proposals.
At one point in the evening, Harris was questioned about what she would do to secure the southern border.
“So it’s a wonderful and important question. I, you know, my background was as a prosecutor, and I was also the elected attorney general for two terms of the border state. So this is not a theoretical issue for me. This is something I’ve actually worked on,” Harris began in her three-minute answer, which ended with her blasting Republicans for not passing the bipartisan border bill.
“So to answer Justin’s question,” Winfrey interjected.
“Now that that bill is gone and hasn’t passed, will you introduce–” the billionaire talk show host asked before Harris cut in.
“Absolutely,” the vice president replied.
“When I am elected as president of the United States, I will make sure that bill gets to my desk and I will sign it into law,” Harris said, without offering any new policies on how to solve the crisis at the southern border.
The “Unite for America” event was meant to reach a large number of voters through Winfrey’s presence and a number of simultaneous streaming platforms on social media. …
… The vice president had six total media interviews before the livestream with Winfrey as a 2024 candidate — on track to be the fewest of any recent presidential nominee.She also waited over a month to present a list of policy proposals, but has said that she’s “not Joe Biden” and that “we can’t go back” to Trump.