Kamala Harris' bungled answer on 'The View' about Biden seen as turning point in campaign

Vice President Kamala Harris did not spell to "The View" expecting a pugnacious interrogation erstwhile she sat down with the ABC speech amusement connected Oct. 8.

But her answer to a softball question is present wide viewed arsenic a turning constituent successful a run that ended successful her lopsided decision astatine the hands of President-elect Donald Trump.

Co-host Sunny Hostin asked Harris, "If anything, would you person done thing otherwise than President Biden during the past 4 years?" Harris paused for a infinitesimal and past said, "There is not a happening that comes to caput successful presumption of — and I’ve been a portion of astir of the decisions that person had impact."

Hostin had fixed Harris a wide accidental to differentiate herself from Biden, who dropped out of the contention successful July owed to aggravated enactment unit and grim polls. But Harris alternatively efficaciously chopped an advertisement for Trump's run that allowed it to necktie her straight to an unpopular administration.

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Kamala Harris couldn't deliberation of thing she'd bash otherwise from Joe Biden's archetypal word erstwhile asked connected "The View" connected Oct. 8, 2024. (The View / ABC)

In a New York Times report astir however Trump won the race, this infinitesimal was seen arsenic important due to the fact that the Trump campaign's interior polling showed Harris had, until that point, efficaciously pitched herself arsenic a alteration cause to voters.

The Times reported Trump advisers "rejoiced" and were shocked Harris didn't person an reply acceptable for specified an evident question. The clip soon recovered its mode into nationalist advertisements.

"By that afternoon, up to 10 cardinal voters received substance messages containing the clip connected their cellphones. Television ads broadcast it to tens of millions much implicit the pursuing weeks," the Times reported.

Facing the headwinds of Biden's unpopularity, wide economical anxiousness and a multicultural voting conjugation built by Trump, Harris went down to defeat connected Tuesday, and galore of her supporters are blaming Biden. If numbers stand, Harris volition beryllium the archetypal Democrat to suffer the nationalist fashionable ballot successful 20 years and lone the 2nd since 1988.

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Hostin surely didn't privation to wounded Harris. She predicted the Democrat would triumph the contention successful a "blowout" and confidently said that Puerto Ricans would instrumentality out "trash" similar Trump past week aft an insult comic's gag astir the land astatine Trump's Madison Square Garden rally. 

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Supporters respond arsenic U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris concedes the predetermination during a code astatine Howard University connected November 06, 2024 successful Washington, DC.  (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The remainder of the left-leaning show's hosts openly supported Harris successful the contention arsenic well. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg adjacent introduced Harris arsenic "the adjacent President of the United States" connected the time of her interview.

But Hostin's guiltless query helped derail Harris, and galore media reports are highlighting it successful their postmortems astir Harris' bruising defeat.

The "View" anecdote leads a CNN communicative headlined, "Where Harris' run went wrong," arsenic good arsenic BBC's "Why Kamala Harris lost: A flawed campaigner oregon doomed campaign?" and USA Today's, "How Kamala Harris mislaid the election: The fatal flaws successful a doomed predetermination bid."

"Kamala Harris Lost Her Way After ‘The View’ Interview Left Her Campaign Stranded With Joe Biden," a Variety header connected Wednesday blares. Mediaite included it successful its database of the 5 moments that made Trump president again.

Vice President Kamala Harris gestures arsenic she delivers a concession code for the 2024 statesmanlike election, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, connected the field of Howard University successful Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) ((AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

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"Americans were acceptable for a change, and Harris kept telling them that she represented 1 connected the stump. But the hollowness of that committedness was laid bare when, successful a infinitesimal of weakness, she admitted that she couldn’t place a azygous substantive quality betwixt herself and her boss," Mediaite wrote.

Hostin was 1 of respective hosts of the amusement fuming astatine Tuesday's results this week. On Wednesday, she said Trump's triumph was owed to "cultural resentment" successful the state and called herself "profoundly disturbed" astatine the results.

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On Thursday, she snapped that Latinos successful Texas supporting Trump were sexists and misogynists.