Vice President Kamala Harris had a bit of a meltdown during her interview with Bret Baier on Wednesday, and let’s just say it wasn’t her finest hour.
The topic? Her campaign’s shiny new slogan, “A New Way Forward.” Sounds nice, right? Except when Baier asked her what exactly that means, given that she’s been vice president for three and a half years already, Harris didn’t seem to have an answer. And the awkwardness only got worse from there.
Baier, not one to let a vague talking point slide, pointed out the obvious: if Harris and Biden have been running the show for the past few years, what are they turning the page from? Her response? A word salad about Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric—because, of course, it’s always Trump’s fault, right?
She went on to say that leadership should be about lifting people up, not beating them down. Now, that’s all well and good, but it has nothing to do with the fact that she’s been in office during a time when 79% of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. That’s not exactly the ringing endorsement you want when you’re trying to “turn the page.”
Baier, naturally, brought up this little issue of the 79% of Americans who say the country is on the wrong track, and here’s where things got really interesting. Harris, in a move that can only be described as desperate, tried to bring Trump back into the conversation again, awkwardly pointing out that “Donald Trump has been running for office since…” as if that somehow explains away the disaster that has been the Biden-Harris administration.
And Baier wasn’t having it. He reminded her that she’s the one in office, not Trump. But rather than owning up to the fact that her time as VP hasn’t exactly been a roaring success, Harris danced around the question and claimed, “You and I both know what I am talking about.” Well, Harris, here’s the thing: if even Bret Baier doesn’t know what you’re talking about, it’s a pretty safe bet that most of America doesn’t either.
BRET: “More than 70% of Americans feel the country is going badly.”
KAMALA: “Donald Trump has been running for office”
B: “But you’ve been the person holding the office”
K: “You and I both know what I’m talking about”
B: “I actually don’t. What are you talking about?” 🤣 pic.twitter.com/rslwSkysBR
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) October 16, 2024
Ultimately, it was just another classic example of Harris dodging questions and refusing to take any responsibility. Baier even had to remind her that she holds the levers of power—something she seemed to forget as she tried to shift the blame to Trump once again. For someone supposedly running on a “new way forward,” she sure seems stuck in the past.
Kamala Harris almost snaps at @BretBaier at the end of perhaps the first grueling, hardball interview she’s ever had to face….
Baier: We are talking over each other, I apologize.
Harris: Well, and I — and I —
Baier: But you’re not —
Harris: — I would like that we would… pic.twitter.com/xZMnAeJBqf
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 16, 2024
If this is Harris’s idea of turning the page, it looks like we’re just getting more of the same—empty slogans, finger-pointing, and no real answers for why the country is in the state it’s in. At this rate, Harris’s “new way forward” looks a lot like the same old mess we’ve been living through for the last three and a half years.
