MSNBC host defends Harris avoiding policy questions: She's 'not running for perfect'

MSNBC big Stephanie Ruhle went to bat for Vice President Kamala Harris, insisting she doesn't person to code argumentation questions from the property due to the fact that "she's not moving for perfect, she's moving against Trump."

On Friday's installment of "Real Time with Bill Maher," Ruhle rushed to support Harris aft big Bill Maher torched the VP's caller comments laying retired her plans for a post-war Middle East, suggesting it was hollow.

"She is successful a tricky presumption due to the fact that Joe Biden is presently the commandant successful main and she's the VP," Ruhle told Maher. "So it's precise hard for anybody successful her presumption to benignant of thread this needle and say, 'Here's what we should do, here's our plan' erstwhile he's the existent commandant successful chief."

"She's successful this weird abstraction of similar an improv show, of similar a ‘yes, and,’ 'Yes to what he's doing and I deliberation we should bash this,' So it's particularly tricky."

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MSNBC big Stephanie Ruhle went to bat for Vice President Kamala Harris during her quality connected "Real Time with Bill Maher."  (Screenshot/HBO)

Fellow panelist, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, turned to Ruhle with an "honest question," asking whether Harris was being "vague" for governmental reasons oregon "does she simply person nary idea?" Ruhle insisted that wasn't an "honest question" since she'd ne'er accidental Harris has "no idea."

"I'm an undecided voter. I'm ne'er gonna ballot for Trump, but I'm not definite I privation to ballot for Kamala," Stephens told Ruhle. "And my fearfulness is that she doesn't truly person a precise bully bid of what she wants to bash arsenic president. It would beryllium large for her to beryllium down with you [Bill Maher], oregon George Stephanopoulos, oregon you Stephanie."

"It's not excessively overmuch to inquire Kamala, ‘Say, are you for a Palestinian authorities if Hamas is gonna tally that state? Yes oregon no?’" helium aboriginal added.

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Vice President Kamala Harris has been facing increasing scrutiny for not doing galore interviews with the press. ( (AP Photo/Matt Rourke))

"And let's accidental you don't similar her answer. Are you going to ballot for Donald Trump?" Ruhle changeable back. "Kamala Harris is not moving for perfect. She's moving against Trump. We person 2 choices. And truthful determination are immoderate things you mightiness not cognize her reply to. And successful 2024, dissimilar 2016 for a batch of the American people, we cognize precisely what Trump volition do, who helium is and the benignant of menace helium is to democracy."

"Stephanie, the occupation that a batch of radical person with Kamala is we don't cognize her reply to anything, okay?" Stephens doubled down. 

"But you cognize his reply to everything!" Ruhle interjected. 

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"And that's wherefore I would ne'er ballot for him and radical shouldn't ballot for him," Stephens continued. "But radical besides are expected to person immoderate thought of what programme is of the idiosyncratic you're expected to ballot for! You're not expected to accidental ‘Well, you person to ballot for y due to the fact that x is that and the other.' Let’s find retired a small spot more. And I don't deliberation it's a batch to inquire for her to beryllium down for a existent interrogation arsenic opposed to a puff portion successful which she describes her feelings of increasing up successful Oakland with bully lawns."

"I would conscionable accidental to that- erstwhile you determination to Nirvana, springiness maine your existent property broker's fig and I'll beryllium your adjacent doorway neighbor. We don't unrecorded there!" Ruhle exclaimed.

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens had a tense speech with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle implicit Vice President Kamala Harris' refusal to code superior argumentation questions from the press. (Screenshot/HBO)

After she and Maher further mocked Stephens for remaining undecided, the columnist told them helium is among the "millions of Americans who Kamala has to transportation if she wants to win."

"Did you ever play the crippled Would You Rather? Because that is what voting for the president is, okay?" Ruhle aboriginal told Stephens. 

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Earlier successful the conversation, Ruhle agreed with Maher that Trump was a "threat to democracy" and defended the ABC News moderators' uneven fact-checking of Trump versus Harris astatine the statesmanlike debate. 

"When Donald Trump tells prevarication aft lie, you don't accidental ‘Well, cipher seems to care. It’s our occupation successful the media- erstwhile radical kick ‘Donald Trump got fact-checked mode much than Kamala Harris did,’ you're damn close helium did! You cognize why? He told much lies!" Ruhle said.