With her running mate by her side, Vice President Harris attempted to defend her shifting and flip-flops on key issues by claiming her "values have not changed." That particular response by the presidential hopeful has been "shredded," according to Fox News, by "many online commentators" who say if that's the case, "she is as radical as she was in 2019 while trying to act moderate to win the election."
Thursday's taped interview with Dana Bash on CNN was Harris's first since officially becoming the Democratic presidential nominee one week earlier. When asked about position flip-flops she has made in recent weeks, she claimed she now doesn't want to ban fracking, and that there "should be consequence" for people who cross the border without permission.
Gary Bauer, chairman of the Campaign for Working Families, wasn't impressed by CNN's handling of the first public forum on the Democratic ticket's policy plans.
"I looked for the interview last night and I couldn't find it. The only thing I could come up with was a long pro-Harris political ad on CNN, which they called an 'interview,'" he tells AFN. "If that was an interview, everybody and their brother and sister would be running for office because a five-year-old child could have handled the questions in that interview."
As for the candidate herself, Bauer says Harris has "an incredible credibility problem."
"Her answers won't hold up under examination," he argues. "And the Trump campaign is going to unfortunately have to spend literally hundreds of millions of dollars to try to get the truth to the American people."
The Associated Press reports that Gov. Tim Walz, Harris' running mate, "watched quietly and nodded" when Harris made her main points. When Bash asked Walz about his disputed claim about "those weapons of war, that I carried in war," he admitted that he had misspoken – adding, "My wife, the English teacher, told me my grammar's not always correct."
Walz, a former high school teacher, owns a B.S. degree in social science education and an M.S. degree in educational leadership.
