CNN panel critical of Kamala Harris' town hall performance: 'Word salad city'

CNN commentators were captious of Vice President Kamala Harris' municipality hallway connected Wednesday, suggesting the vice president gave "word salad" answers erstwhile she didn't privation to reply a question. 

"The happening that would interest maine is erstwhile she doesn’t privation to reply a question," commentator David Axelrod said. "Her wont is to benignant of spell to connection crockery city, and she did that connected a mates of answers. One was connected Israel. Anderson asked a nonstop question, ‘Would you beryllium stronger connected Israel than Trump?’ And determination was a seven-minute answer, but nary of it related to the question helium was asking."

Harris spoke to undecided voters astatine a municipality hallway connected Wednesday successful Pennsylvania, which was moderated by CNN's Anderson Cooper.

"On definite questions similar that, connected immigration, I thought she missed an accidental due to the fact that she would admit nary concerns astir immoderate of the administration’s policies. And that’s a mistake. Sometimes you person to concede things and she didn‘t concede much," Axelrod said.

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David Axelrod took purpose astatine Kamala Harris' "word salad" answers connected Wednesday pursuing her CNN municipality hall. (Screenshot/CNN)

CNN's Dana Bash argued that radical she's spoken to don't deliberation Harris sealed the deal. 

"What I‘m proceeding from radical who I person been talking to, and that is that if her extremity was to adjacent the deal, they‘re not definite she did that. And, you know, immoderate radical person asked, is she being held to a antithetic standard? Maybe. But that‘s possibly the satellite that she‘s surviving in. And connected the question of who she is, radical are knowing that a small spot more," she said.

Bash highlighted a fewer questions wherever Harris didn't person answers. 

"But what she volition do? The question astir her legislative priorities, sanction one, determination wasn‘t one. You know, immoderate much of her property and her benignant of quality questions astir your weaknesses oregon what mistakes did you make, not needfully the answers there," she said.

However, Bash said that Harris being successful beforehand of voters and talking to them straight was a "win" for the vice president. 

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Jake Tapper said the vice president focused much connected her hostile than her ain policies. 

"She focused a batch much connected Donald Trump, I deliberation it’s just to say, than she did connected galore specifics successful presumption of what she would bash arsenic president," helium said, noting Harris discusses immoderate plans regarding tiny businesses.

 "I deliberation aft 8 years of Donald Trump, radical are alert of Donald Trump’s persona, his proclivity for controversy, his imaginable to offend and the like. And I wonderment if you deliberation possibly she did excessively much," Tapper added.

John King suggested that Harris did request to marque attacking Trump a precedence and praised her for her answers wherever she talked astir herself and her faith. However, helium suggested that the VP fell abbreviated successful trying to link it to her policies. 

"Where I deliberation she fails sometimes is to link it much to her policies," helium said, suggesting Harris should embody immoderate of erstwhile President Bill Clinton's persona. "He had a marque wherever helium could look radical successful the oculus and say, ‘I‘m connected your side. I‘m warring for the mediate class,' right? Putting radical first. That’s the transportation she has to make."

He said that the "personal part" was sometimes missing from Harris' remarks.

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Vice President Kamala Harris shakes a supporter's manus aft her rally astatine Riverside Park connected Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, successful Grand Rapids. (Adam Vander Kooy / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Abby Phillip suggested Harris avoided specifics erstwhile pressed by immoderate of the undecided voters present.

"The happening I deliberation that benignant of got her tripped up astatine definite times was erstwhile definite voters were asking to drill down, actually, connected immoderate policy, and she didn‘t privation to spell there, didn‘t privation to get into immoderate specifics," Phillip said. "But it’s pugnacious for her due to the fact that I deliberation that that comes crossed arsenic evasive to immoderate voters … They conscionable privation to cognize are my taxes going to spell up if I marque $500,000 a twelvemonth oregon not? It‘s precise tricky for her."

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