Andrew Stiles and Thaleigha Rampersad write for the Washington Free Beacon about Vice President Kamala Harris’ latest flub.
Vice President Kamala Harris continued her October media blitz on Tuesday, sitting down for a friendly chat with the ladies of The View. CNN media expert Brian Stelter predicted the female co-hosts would ask “sharp questions.” They did not, obviously, but the softball nature of the interview did not stop Harris from providing a flawless soundbite for a future Donald Trump campaign ad.
Having spent the last several months promising “a new way forward” while pretending the Biden-Harris administration was not currently in power, Harris failed to identify a single thing she would have done differently compared to President Joe Biden. “There is not a thing that comes to mind,” she said. “And I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.” That was Harris’s second attempt at a response to co-host Sunny Hostin, who asked what the “biggest specific difference” would be between a Biden presidency and a Harris presidency. Her initial answer was an inscrutable word salad about small businesses.
“Well, [Biden and I are] obviously two different people, and we have a lot of shared life experiences. For example, the way we feel about family and our parents and so on, but we’re also different people, and I will bring those sensibilities to how I lead,” Harris said. “I love our small businesses. My mother raised my sister and me predominantly, but we had what we called a second mother who lived two houses down who helped my mother raise us. She was a small business owner. I love our small businesses. And, um, and so the influence of a personal experience will have its impact on a presidency.”
Later on in the interview, Harris offered a third response. “You ask me what’s the biggest difference between Biden and me? I’m going to have a Republican in my cabinet,” she said.