The left-wing New York Times has slammed Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris for refusing to answer a single question during her latest softball interview with friendly MSNBC.
An NY Times report tore into Vice President Harris’s interview with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle on Wednesday.
The report accused Harris of sticking to her strategy of avoiding answering questions directly.
The New York Times report on the “takeaways” from Harris’s interview stated:
“Since Ms. Harris began granting more interviews in recent days, her media strategy has been to sit with friendly inquisitors who are not inclined to ask terribly thorny questions or press her when her responses are evasive.”
Harris sat for her first solo interview with a major network on Wednesday.
It came just days after Ruhle defended Harris on Bill Maher’s show.
Ruhle pushed back against criticisms that Harris was dodging questions and avoiding policy specifics during the interviews she has done.
“Ms. Harris responded to the fairly basic and predictable questions with roundabout responses that did not provide a substantive answer,” the NYT report continued.
The report noted Ruhle’s praise and defense for Harris during her appearance on “Real Time With Bill Maher.”
It also referenced an interview Ruhle did with President Biden in May 2023.
“Ruhle did not press him after his stumbling answers and praised him throughout the 14-minute discussion,” the Times noted.
The Times added that Ruhle failed to press Harris on whether she knew anything about Biden’s health prior to the June debate that eventually led to him dropping out.
“Ms. Ruhle joined Ms. Harris in attacking Mr. Trump (‘His plan is not serious when you lay it out like that’) and avoided posing tricky questions about positions Ms. Harris supported during her 2020 presidential campaign or what, if anything, she knew about Mr. Biden’s physical condition or mental acuity as his own campaign deteriorated,” the report read.
The NYT report concluded that this could be “perhaps why Ms. Harris agreed to the interview in the first place.”
During the interview, Ruhle asked where Harris would “get the money” to fund her radical and expensive economic proposals if congressional Republicans block her efforts to raise the corporate tax rate.
“Do you still go forward with those plans and borrow?” Ruhle asked.
“But we’re going to have to raise corporate taxes,” Harris responded.
“We’re going to have to make sure that the biggest corporations and billionaires pay their fair share.
“That’s just it. It’s about paying their fair share.”
While discussing the interview on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” Ruhle conceded that Harris “doesn’t answer the question.”
After Harris provided a series of word salad statements during her Wednesday interview with Ruhle, the MSNBC anchor almost immediately started making excuses for the vice president, as THAIMBC News reported.
During an interview with fellow MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes, Ruhle argued that it’s “okay” that Harris didn’t provide her with any “clear and direct answers.”
According to Ruhle, “That’s okay because we’re not talking about clear and direct issues.”
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