Kamala Harris says she'd be a different president to Joe Biden in fiery Fox News interview

The interrogation marked her archetypal foray onto the right-wing web arsenic she looked to broaden her outreach to Republican-leaning voters with little than 3 weeks until Election Day. Her astir 30-minute sit-down with Mr Baier repeatedly grew heated, with the 2 talking implicit each other.

When the anchor kept talking arsenic Ms Harris tried to respond to his challenges connected immigration, the Vice President said: “May I delight finish? ... You person to fto maine finish, please.”

Ms Harris tried repeatedly to pivot the speech to attacking Donald Trump. But she besides had plentifulness to accidental astir herself.

A week aft saying she could not deliberation of immoderate determination made by Mr Biden that she would person done differently, Ms Harris asserted: “My presidency volition not beryllium a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency.”

Ms Harris did not connection specifics, but said, “Like each caller president that comes into office, I volition bring my beingness experiences, and my nonrecreational experiences and caller and caller ideas.”

Asked to clarify her assertion that she wants to “turn the page,” though Democrats presently clasp the White House, Ms Harris said she is moving connected “turning the leafage from the past decennary successful which we person been burdened with the benignant of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump.”

On immigration, Ms Harris expressed regret implicit the deaths of women who were killed by radical who were detained and past released aft crossing into the US illegally during the Biden administration, but she criticised Trump for his relation successful blocking a bipartisan migration measure earlier this twelvemonth that would person boosted borderline funding.

“I americium truthful atrocious for her loss, sincerely,” Mr Harris said aft Baier played footage of the parent of Jocelyn Nungaray blaming Mr Biden and Ms Harris for her daughter’s death.

Ms Harris indicated she nary longer supports decriminalising crossing the borderline illegally, arsenic she did successful 2019.

“That was 5 years agone and I americium precise wide that I volition travel the law,” she said. She gave the aforesaid reply astir proposals to let those successful the US illegally to get driver’s licenses and subsidised healthcare.

Of Trump, she said: “People are exhausted with idiosyncratic who professes to beryllium a person and who spends afloat clip demeaning and engaging successful idiosyncratic grievances.” She added: “He’s not stable.”

She besides sought to absorption Fox viewers connected Trump’s speech of “the force within” and threats to punish governmental rivals.

Mr Baier challenged Ms Harris implicit her attestations to Mr Biden’s intelligence stamina aft his disastrous statement with Trump successful June that forced his exit from the 2024 statesmanlike contention and her elevation to the apical of the ticket. She again defended Biden, but added, “Joe Biden is not connected the ballot and Donald Trump is.”

Trump’s run spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said Ms Harris was “angry, defensive, and erstwhile again abdicated immoderate work for the problems Americans are facing.” She added that if “Kamala can’t grip the unit of an interrogation with Fox News, she surely can’t grip the unit of being president of the United States.”

Pushing backmost against Mr Baier’s enactment of questioning, Ms Harris astatine 1 constituent said, “I would similar if we could person a speech that is grounded successful a afloat appraisal of the facts.”

Harris run spokesperson Brian Fallon said her squad felt she “achieved what we acceptable retired to achieve” with the “Special Report” host. “She was capable to scope an assemblage that has astir apt been not exposed to the arguments she’s been making connected the way and she besides got to amusement her toughness successful lasting gangly against a hostile interviewer,” helium said.

Referring to erstwhile Trump challenger Nikki Haley, Fallon said, “I deliberation there’s a bully fig of independents and Haley-style Republicans who are precise unfastened to voting for Vice President Harris and that’s wherefore we are unfastened to doing events with Republicans and connected Fox News.”