Kamala Harris served up a word salad in a one-on-one interview with an ABC affiliate on Friday, just days after the network came under fire for failing to fact-check her debate.
Harris sat down for an 11-minute conversation with WPVIa Disney-owned and operated affiliate station in Philadelphia, after ABC national moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir were accused of bias in their confrontation with Donald Trump on Tuesday.
Host Brian Taff asked Harris to describe one or two areas where she is different from the president in Johnstown on Friday.
Rather than offering a policy difference, Harris said, “Well, I’m obviously not Joe Biden” and “I’m offering a new generation of leadership,” adding that things once taken for granted can no longer be ignored.
He then finally tried to explain his plans to help families raise their children and alleviate the cost of child care.
Kamala Harris served up a word salad in a one-on-one interview with an ABC affiliate on Friday after the network’s moderators were criticized for failing to fact-check the debate.
‘For example, another plan I have that is a new approach is… Expand the child tax credit to $6,000 “For young families during the first year of their child’s life, because obviously it is a very critical stage of child development, and that is why my approach is based on new ideas, new policies that are geared to the current moment,” she said.
“And also, to be very honest with you, my focus is on what we need to do in the next 10, 20 years to get to the 21st century in terms of, again, capability, but also challenges.”
Nor did he offer a coherent and concrete answer when Taff asked him how he was going to reduce prices.
“Well, I’ll start with this. I grew up as a middle-class kid. My mother raised me and my sister. She worked very hard. Americans have beautiful character. We have ambitions, aspirations and dreams. But not everyone necessarily has access to the resources that can help them fuel those dreams and ambitions.”
Harris used a question about the former president’s appeal and how he would speak to his supporters to criticize Trump and his leadership style.
“I also think I’m right in saying that most Americans want a leader who will unite us as Americans and not someone who professes to be a leader who tries to get us to point fingers at each other,” he said.
The vice president suggested that her support from Republican officials, including former vice president Dick Cheney and his daughter, the former representative. Liz Cheney, It’s the result of people being ‘tired’ of Trump.
“I think people are more willing now, in light of the hate and division that we see coming out of Donald Trump, to say, ‘Hey, let’s put country first,’ and I think that makes us stronger and healthier as a country,” she said.
Harris sat down for an 11-minute chat with WPVI, a Disney-owned and operated affiliate station in Philadelphia.
Republicans were furious with ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for refusing to fact-check Kamala Harris over her lies about Donald Trump’s views on IVF.
She offered a few answers when asked to share something she would like people to know about her that they don’t already know.
“It’s probably not that much different than what people are seeing right now,” she said. “I love my family. One of my favorite things that I haven’t been able to do lately is Sunday family dinner. I love to cook.”
Harris also said her best friend from kindergarten “is still my best friend.”
Trump, his running mate Senator J.D. Vance and other Republicans have criticized Harris for largely avoiding media interviews or interacting on the record with reporters covering her campaign events.
She and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, gave a joint interview to CNN last month that was similarly criticized for failing to provide real answers.
Her campaign recently said it will begin doing more local interviews, and the National Association of Black Journalists announced Friday that some of its members will interview Harris on Tuesday in Philadelphia.
This comes after Republicans were furious with ABC News moderators Muir and Davis for refusing to fact-check Harris over her lies about Trump’s views on IVF.
The vice president is rumored to have close ties to Disney executive Dana Walden, and Harris and Davis are alumni of the same sorority.
Davis even anticipated Trump’s comments on abortion and IVF, saying that “it was an obvious thing that needed to be on record.”
Davis says it was a conscious decision to do the fact checks after seeing how Trump and Joe Biden performed in the CNN debate in June.
“People were concerned that the statements would be allowed to hang and not be challenged by candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators,” Davis said.
Davis even anticipated Trump’s comments on abortion and IVF, saying that “it was an obvious thing that needed to be on record.”
He later admitted that they tried but failed to get candidates to go on record every time they claimed to have told a lie.
Muir and Davis repeatedly attempted to fact-check Trump during the debate on topics including the Capitol riot and a claim about immigration crime.
However, Harris incorrectly claimed during the debate that Trump was against in vitro fertilization.
The former president said he has spoken out in favor of IVF when it has faced bans at the state level.
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer wrote on social media: “ABC is making a huge mistake by trying to fact-check live. They are just proving how biased they are. Harris fabricated an attack on Trump over IVF. ABC sat back and said nothing.”
A Trump campaign account pointed out what the debate moderators did not: that Harris was not telling the truth.
Linsey Davis claimed Trump was lying when he said states are allowing executions after birth.
Muir said Trump falsely claimed that immigrants were eating pets in the city of Springfield, Ohio.
Harris was not fact-checked by either during the debate.
The vice president was apparently pleased with the outcome, as the interview with the ABC affiliate was her first since the CNN chat.
Harris has since challenged Trump to a second debate, which both CBS News and Fox News have offered to moderate.
Trump has insisted that the two will never debate again.
Walz and Vance will face off in New York City on Oct. 1, moderated by CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan.