Kamala Harris stumbles in fiery interview grilling
Kamala Harris floundered during a fiery interview on Fox News as she sought to appeal to Donald Trump’s voter base.
Harris, who is the Democrat presidential candidate, had her first ever sit-down with the Right-wing network three weeks before the election.
But the Vice-President was put on the back foot by interviewer Bret Baier who grilled her about immigration, gender surgery for prisoners and Joe Biden’s mental faculties, forcing Harris to parry his questions. They frequently talked over each other with Harris repeatedly saying: ‘Let me finish.’
It was a high-stakes gamble by Harris to reach Republican voters on America’s most watched cable television channel.
Baier tore into her about the nation’s borders, which is seen as the strongest issue for Donald Trump, the Republican nominee. He asked her how many illegal immigrants had entered the US since Biden took office in 2021 – was it one million or three million? But Harris replied: ‘We have a broken immigration system.’
Kamala Harris had her first ever interview with Fox News just three weeks before the election
But the Vice-President floundered when questioned by Bret Baier on immigration, gender surgery for visitors and Joe Biden’s mental faculties
When Baier tried to cut in, Harris said ‘I’m not finished’, before blaming Trump for tanking a bipartisan immigration bill.
As the two shouted over each other, Harris said: ‘I’m in the middle of responding to the point you’re raising and I’d like to finish.’
Baier then asked her if she owed an apology to the families of two women, as well as 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who were killed by illegal migrants.
Harris said they were ‘tragic cases’ and she ‘can’t imagine the pain that the families of those victims have experienced’.
Baier showed a clip of Jocelyn’s mother Alexis telling Congress last month that the Biden administration was to blame for her daughter’s death, and asked if she owed Alexis an apology.
Harris deflected a question on when she first noticed Biden’s mental ability had diminished
Harris said she was ‘sorry for her loss’, but pivoted to blaming Trump as an ‘individual who doesn’t want to particulate in solutions’.
Baier asked how she could claim to be a change candidate when she had been in power for three years. A visibly irate Harris added that a president has to be ‘able to handle criticism without saying you’d lock people up for doing it’.
She deflected once again when Baier asked when she first noticed Biden’s mental ability was diminished. She said: ‘Joe Biden is not on the ballot and Donald Trump is.’
The interview ended abruptly with Mr Baier saying on air he was being told to bring it to an end.
