Epic clash: Pressed by Fox News, Kamala Harris comes out swinging

Kamala Harris’ archetypal interrogation connected Fox News was a contentious affair, and astatine times she and Bret Baier coiled up talking implicit each other. 

But portion the vice president repeatedly ducked immoderate questions, she besides had respective moments erstwhile she appeared to beryllium lasting up to her slightest favourite network–undoubtedly thing she hoped to achieve.

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She showed passion, adjacent anger, raising her voice, connected a question astir about of the state believing we’re connected the incorrect track, saying that Donald Trump was "unfit to serve" and "unstable." Turning questions into broadsides against the erstwhile president was her signature move.

But what astir fractional the state that supports him, Baier asked. "Are they stupid?"

A side-by-side of Bret Baier and Kamala Harris. (Fox News Media/Getty Images)

No, but "he’s the 1 who tends to demean and belittle and diminish," Harris said. Trump is the 1 talking astir "an force within," and utilizing the military against Americans. "He’s talking astir locking radical up due to the fact that they disagree with him."

Several times she told Baier "you and I some know" earlier lobbing a grenade astatine Trump, trying to task an representation of lasting up to some Fox and her opponent. She wanted this fight.

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Among the questions Harris didn’t privation to answer:

Does she enactment taxpayer-funded transgender country for national inmates, arsenic she did successful 2019? "I volition travel the law," she said flatly, insisting Trump had done the same. (The Trump campy changeable backmost that the archetypal specified country took spot successful 2022, during her tenure.)

Didn’t she cognize that Joe Biden had been diminished? She danced astir that one.

Bret Baier interviews Kamala Harris connected Fox News. (Fox News Channel)

Why hasn’t she made advancement connected these issues during her clip arsenic vice president?

"My presidency volition not beryllium a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency," she said, pointing retired that she hasn’t spent astir of her beingness successful Washington. That was a cleanup of her disastrous effect connected "The View" that she couldn’t deliberation of a azygous happening wherever she differed from the president.

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The Fox anchor spent the archetypal chunk of the interrogation on immigration, pursuing up again and again to pin her down. 

At archetypal Harris conceded the obvious: "We person a breached migration strategy that needs to beryllium repaired."

Why didn’t you hole it? Trump killed their astir caller effort astatine a bipartisan bill, though thing was accomplished erstwhile Democrats controlled some houses of Congress.

Laken Riley’s sidesplitting gripped the nation. (ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)

Had she changed her presumption since her 2019 campaign, erstwhile she said borderline crossings should beryllium made legal?

"I bash not judge successful decriminalizing borderline crossings," Harris responded, without explaining the change.

Asked astir crimes committed by amerciable immigrants, specified arsenic the execution of Laken Riley, Harris called them "tragic cases" and said her bosom went retired to their families.

There were times erstwhile her answers seemed thin, and different times erstwhile she slipped successful a litany of her proposals.

The confrontational league was Harris’ archetypal of this abbreviated campaign, aft a bid of softball sitdowns with radical openly supporting her candidacy.

Fox News got the exclusive, and Harris got what she wanted: A defiant fractional hr successful which she could effort to alteration minds among the largest assemblage by acold successful cablegram news. 

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She should wantonness her friends similar Howard Stern and Stephen Colbert and bash much pugnacious interviews, due to the fact that that’s however you amusement voters you tin instrumentality the heat.