A panel of journalists from NABJ made headlines during the group’s annual convention in July, when Trump was peppered with questions about Harris’ race and the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
That interview, which was more like a confrontation, put Trump on the defensive for most of his time on stage. He unhappily called the questions "nasty" and complained he was lectured, not interviewed.
NABJ is making news again this week for delivering a softball interview to a smiling, giggling Harris, who has not held a press conference since she became the Democrat nominee for president approximately 60 days ago.
Despite her lack of media interviews, and backtracking on numerous far-left beliefs to woo voters, the Democrat nominee easily batted away important topics about gun confiscation, support for Israel, and reparations for blacks.
Gerren Keith Gaynor, an editor at news website The Grio, asked Harris about her “joyful warrior” campaign strategy, which was the biggest softball question of all.
“Why is joy important to you to insert into this election,” Gaymor asked, “and what do you make of Republicans using that as a way to suggest that you’re not a serious candidate?”
Harris, turning to the audience, said her message to “young people” is to learn some times your “adversaries will try to turn your strength into a weakness.
“Don’t let them. Don’t let them,” she said.
Melanie Collette, of Project 21, tells AFN she was annoyed at the tone the journalists used during the interview with Harris.
“They were talking to her in such a kind, soft, soothing manner,” she says. “It really was amazing as opposed to the very angry and aggressive energy behind the way they were talking to President Trump.”
Collette says she noticed the stage did not include Harris Faulkner, the Fox News anchor, who participated in the Trump interview.
“People have asked me about that,” she says. “I said you didn't really think they were letting Harris anywhere near Kamala? Absolutely not.”
NPR host demanded discussion on handguns
In a related story about the interview, The Daily Caller noticed that Harris was grilled hard about one topic – handguns – by one of the black journalists, NPR radio host Tonya Mosley.
“How will you address the issue of the use of handguns,” Mosley pressed, “because a push for an assault weapons ban only addresses a significant but small part of the problem?”
The issue of guns is a tricky topic for Harris. Her campaign now claims she suddenly no longer wants the federal government to confiscate AR-15s from millions of legal gun owners. Considering the Democrat nominee supposedly flip-flopped on that issue, Mosley pushed Harris even farther: To criticize legal handgun ownership because of inner-city crime.
According to The Daily Caller, Harris told Mosley and the audience she only wants to ban “assault weapons” but Mosley repeatedly pushed her to criticize the legal ownership of handguns, too.
“I’m asking specifically about handguns," Mosley said, "because many of those handguns are purchased in places —”
“Universal background checks apply to handguns," Harris interrupted. "They do."
