Kamala Harris spars over Biden administration record in Fox News interview

Kamala Harris and Fox News big Bret Baier sparred repeatedly implicit immigration, Donald Trump and Harris’ grounds arsenic vice president successful a televised interview Wednesday night.

The 2 often spoke implicit 1 different successful the contentious exchange, Harris’ archetypal connected Fox News since she took implicit arsenic the Democratic nominee for president. At 1 constituent precocious successful the interview, Harris and Baier astir finished implicit sentences implicit each other.

Harris mostly dodged questions astir the Biden administration’s grounds connected immigration, adjacent arsenic Baier repeatedly pressed her connected the issue, a communal Republican talking constituent up of the election.

Almost the full archetypal fractional of the interrogation was focused connected immigration, with Harris repeatedly bringing up Trump’s determination to termination a bipartisan borderline information measure earlier this year.

Baier focused connected the Biden administration’s aboriginal decisions to reverse immoderate of Trump’s borderline policies, which Harris did not straight address.

“We request much judges. We request to process those cases faster. We request the enactment past for those cases to beryllium prosecuted,” Harris said. “They request much resources.”

Harris was besides questioned astir her caller comments that she would not bash things otherwise than Biden had, and however her run slogan — “A New Way Forward” — contrasted with the information that she has been vice president for the past 3 years.

“My presidency volition not beryllium a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency,” Harris said, a enactment that adjacent drew praise from Fox News analysts aft the interrogation aired.

Harris’ interrogation with Fox News was the archetypal clip a Democratic statesmanlike campaigner sat down with the conservative-leaning web since Hillary Clinton spoke with Chris Wallace successful 2016. Baier — who antecedently interviewed Barack Obama successful the White House successful 2010 — has been considered 1 of the channel’s much neutral voices.

Unlike successful some of Harris’ earlier interviews, Baier pressed the vice president erstwhile she veered into modular talking points astatine the disbursal of nonstop answers. However, his committedness to questioning clashed with Harris’ tendency to decorativeness her points, creating galore moments erstwhile some were speaking astatine the aforesaid time.

Afterward, Baier said helium was trying to redirect Harris to springiness much straightforward answers.

Fox News analysts expressed a tendency for at slightest 1 much statement betwixt the 2 statesmanlike candidates. Harris has asked for a 2nd televised statement aft her archetypal quality against Trump connected Sept. 10, though immoderate specified showdown remains unscheduled conscionable 20 days from Election Day, with radical successful immoderate states having already voted early.

Harris often brought up Trump successful the interview, calling him a information to American democracy. She pivoted to speaking astir 78-year-old Trump erstwhile asked astir if and erstwhile she had noticed immoderate intelligence diminution from President Biden.

Additionally, she mentioned Trump’s ain Fox News interrogation past week, successful which helium suggested utilizing the U.S. subject against “radical left” citizens. Trump doubled down connected those comments successful a Fox News municipality hallway that aired Wednesday morning, again mentioning “the force from within.”

Unlike Harris, who has stepped up media appearances successful caller weeks, Trump has mostly stayed connected right-leaning networks and dodged an quality connected CBS’ “60 Minutes.”