Andrew Stiles and Thaleigha Rampersad of the Washington Free Beacon report Kamala Harris’ latest electoral message.
Vice President Kamala Harris ditched her “joyful” “vibes” for darker tones Wednesday during a weakly moderated CNN town hall. The 90-minute affair functioned as a network-sponsored stump speech, albeit with occasional interruptions for questions from “still undecided” voters such as Carol Nackenoff, a political science professor at Swarthmore College who specializes in “women’s activism” and is definitely voting for Harris.
CNN’s docile moderator, Anderson Cooper, opened things up by inviting Harris to talk about whether or not she thought former president Donald Trump is a fascist. (She did.) He asked Harris to discuss a controversial report in the Atlantic regarding Trump’s alleged comments about Adolf Hitler. The comments were relayed by John Kelly, the former White House chief of staff and retired Marine general Harris once denounced as “cruel” and “unethical.”
Harris was happy to oblige and quickly grew agitated, almost to the point of tears, as she delivered what has become the closing message of her embattled campaign. A warning for American voters: Donald Trump is “increasingly unstable and unfit to serve.” He’s “dangerous.” CNN’s Jake Tapper remarked following the town hall that Harris had “focused a lot more on Donald Trump, I think it’s fair to say, than she did on many specifics in terms of what she would do as president.”
When she wasn’t attacking Trump, the vice president was reciting her vague, familiar talking points about her plan “to create a new approach” and her love for small businesses—the “backbone of America’s economy.” She vowed to “actually deal with accountability” by passing a national ban on price gouging, a proposal most economists have dismissed as unserious, and expressed support for giving working families “an extra amount of, just, money.”
