The backlash continued to mount after Vice President Kamala Harris’ televised interview on Friday, with critics calling her refusal to give clear and specific answers.
In his first solo sit-down TV interview since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris seemed to filibuster to avoid a direct answer. One example came when the interviewer, Brian Taff from Philadelphia ABC affiliate, asked him “certain” plans to bring down prices for Americans.
“Well, I’ll start with this. I grew up middle class,” Harris replied. “My mother raised me and my sister. She worked hard, finally saving enough money to buy my first house when I was young.
“I grew up in a hard-working community, you know, construction workers and nurses and teachers. And I’m trying to explain it to some people who might not have the same experience. You know, a lot of people will relate to this.”
HARRIS DODGES QUESTIONS ABOUT LOWERING PRICES AS EXPLAINED ‘MIDDLE CLASS’ ROOTS: HANDS ‘PROUD OF THE LAWN’
Vice President Kamala Harris went viral when she responded to a question about how she would lower prices in an interview with 6 ABC Philadelphia anchor Brian Taff. (Screenshot/6 ABC Philadelphia)
Critics slammed Harris on social media, saying he gave confusing answers to some questions.
“Kamala Harris did the first local sit-down interview after prepping for 53 days and it was a nightmare (.) She could not even name 1-2 things that would do to lower inflation,” Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump’s press secretary, wrote in a post on X after interview.
California state Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones told Fox News Digital that if Harris becomes president, the entire nation will suffer.
“Kamala Harris has spent decades in public office, with a track record defined by rising costs and inflation. During her tenure in California, prices have risen, and the affordability crisis has only increased since she became Vice President,” said Jones. “Talk is cheap, and while he promises to cut costs, his actions have repeatedly produced the opposite.
“Californians are struggling under his leadership, and now the whole nation is bearing brunt. America just can’t afford a Harris president.”
Conservative podcaster Benny Johnson added that Harris’ answer made no sense.
“Kamala Harris: “My focus is very much on what we need to do in the next 10-20 years to reach the 21st century, again, the capacity, but also the challenges. “What does this mean?” Johnson wrote in the post. in X.
Harris’s response was similar to the response he gave when ABC News presidential debate said former President Trump Tuesday, when he was asked by moderator David Muir whether America’s economy is “better than four years ago.”
“So, I was raised a middle-class kid,” Harris told Muir. “And I’m the only person on this stage who has a plan for lifting the middle class and working people in America. I believe in the ambitions, the aspirations, the dreams of the American people, and that’s why I imagine and have a plan to build what we call an opportunity economy .”
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the presidential debate at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday. (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Although Harris drew praise from experts for his debate performance, the sometimes unresponsive answers were foreshadowed there sitting down, especially in economic matters. In the debate, Harris continued to make similar proposals without answering whether America is better off today than it was four years ago.
“Kamala Harris is very clear and direct in asking: Are Americans better off now than 4 years ago? She can’t say yes because the answer is no – Americans are worse off today because of the policies of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. ,” the former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard posted on X after Tuesday night’s debate.
The TRUMP-VANCE TICKET has completed a combined 49 interviews since last month compared to just 10 for HARRIS-WALZ
New York Times columnist Brett Stephens slammed Vice President Kamala Harris’ interview with CNN on Thursday as “vague” and “empty.” (AP/Stephen B. Morton)
Harris and his partner Tim Walz have only conducted 10 unscripted interviews for the Democratic presidential ticket so far, while Republican presidential nominee Trump and vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, have sat through at least 49 questions.
Harris still hasn’t held an official press conference since replacing President Biden as the Democratic nominee. Trump took the question at a press conference on Friday in California, his third full presser in recent weeks.
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USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page said she believes America deserves to hear both candidates answer tough questions.
“I think part of the job description of being president is answering questions, not because reporters have a right to ask, but because Americans have a right to listen,” Page said. Fox News Digital.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
