Harris gives cringe-inducing answer when asked to name a weakness



Vice President Kamala Harris' less-than-stellar performance at her town hall with CNN on Wednesday was filled with awkward answers and nonanswers to basic questions on her stance on several important topics.

One such example was when an audience member asked her to name one of her weaknesses.

Starting off by saying she would actually consider it to be a strength, Harris said she surrounds herself with a team of people with different viewpoints.

'Her habit is to kind of go to word salad city.'

"My team will tell you, I am constantly saying, ‘Let‘s kick the tire on that. Let‘s kick the tires on it,’ because, listen, I — as I mentioned earlier, I started my career as a prosecutor. I was a courtroom prosecutor. I‘ve tried everything, from low-level offenses to homicides, and I learned at a very early stage of my career and adult life that my actions have a direct impact on real people in a very fundamental way," Harris explained.

Because of that supposed self-awareness, Harris said she oftentimes does not have a quick answer to a question in settings like interviews because she needs to consult with that team.

"So I may not be quick to have the answer as soon as you ask it about a specific policy issue sometimes because I‘m going to want to research it. I‘m going to want to study it — I‘m kind of a nerd sometimes, I confess — and some might call that a weakness, especially if you‘re, you know, in an interview or just kind of, you know, being asked a certain question and you’re expected to have the right answer right away, but that‘s how I — that‘s how I work," Harris said as she laughed.

Word salad answers like that did not impress even longtime Democrats on CNN. Former Obama adviser David Axelrod said, "The thing that would concern me is when she doesn't want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to word salad city, and she did that on a couple of answers."

CNN host Dana Bash said she had been hearing from Democrats that "if her goal was to close the deal, they're not sure she did that."

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'Word salad city': Media liberals recognize that Harris' CNN town hall was a total disaster



Kamala Harris' Potemkin town hall with Liz Cheney Monday in Michigan was not the winning performance her campaign was likely banking on. She had yet another opportunity this week, however, to convince voters that she deserves their vote and to do so without tossing more word salads.

Unfortunately for the vice president, her CNN town hall in Aston, Pennsylvania, Wednesday was an unmitigated disaster — with even friendly talking heads and former Obama adviser David Axelrod hinting as much.

Former Trump campaign adviser David Urban told CNN's Van Jones, "Republicans would take another hour of Kamala Harris. We just press play and let her keep going. We'd pay for another hour ... let her keep not answering the questions."

The Trump campaign has already turned at least one of Harris' responses from the town hall into a mock ad.

While Harris spokesman Ian Sams later claimed his boss "isn't afraid of voters or real questions," the vice president dodged questions about the border wall, Israel, raising taxes, decriminalizing border crossings, subsidizing benefits for illegal aliens, expanding and stacking the U.S. Supreme Court, expensive groceries, and banning fracking.

'It's nothing, nothing, nothing.'

"What I'm hearing from people who I've been talking to," CNN host Dana Bash noted afterward, "is that if her goal was to close the deal, they're not sure she did that."

"On the question of who she is, people are understanding that a little bit more," continued Bash. "But what she will do, the question about her legislative priorities — 'name one' — there wasn't one."

CNN panelist Scott Jennings noted, "She's a true double threat. She's terrible on her feet when she gets unexpected questions, and simultaneously, she can't even answer the expected questions. It's nothing, nothing, nothing."

When Harris did decide to provide answers, they were frequently labyrinthine and borderline nonsensical.

Democratic strategist and former Obama adviser David Axelrod told his fellow CNN panelists, "The thing that would concern me is when she doesn't want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to word salad city, and she did that on a couple of answers."

When CNN's Anderson Cooper asked, "Is there something you can point to in your life — political life or in your life from the last four years — that you think is a mistake that you have learned from?" Harris responded:

I mean, I've made many mistakes. And they range from, you know — if you've ever parented a child, you know you make lots of mistakes too. In my role as vice president, I mean I probably worked very hard at making sure that I am well versed on issues, and I think that is very important. It's a mistake not to be well versed on an issue and feel compelled to answer a question.

Axelrod noted that Harris also said a whole a lot about nothing in particular when asked about Israel.

"Anderson asked a direct question, would you be stronger on Israel than Trump? And there was a seven-minute answer, but none of it related to the question he was asking," said Axelrod. "And so, you know, on certain questions like that, on immigration, I thought she missed an opportunity because she would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration's policies."

When Anderson asked Harris whether she regretted working with President Joe Biden to eliminate Trump's effective border policies and open the floodgates, Harris said, "I think we did the right thing."

"And that's a mistake," continued Axelrod. "Sometimes you have to concede things, and she didn't concede much."

Instead of intelligibility and policy, Harris appeared focused on attacking President Donald Trump, who has begun eclipsing her in the polls. Not only did she employ the kind of incendiary rhetoric that set the stage for two known assassination attempts, at one point Harris indicated that she thinks her opponent is a fascist.

Jake Tapper said, "[Harris] focused a lot more on Donald Trump, I think it's fair to say, than she did on many specifics in terms of what she would do as president."

Harris' abysmal performance caused some supporters to melt down online.

Former Vox associate editor and journalist Aaron Rupar tweeted, "The Kamala Harris town hall was fine. She's more than capable. Vote against the fascist, for god's sake. The end."

Blaze News senior editor Cortney Weil responded to Rupar, "'She's good enough! She's smart enough! And gosh darn it, Trump's a fascist.'"

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Trump blasts ‘60 Minutes’ for deceptive cut of Kamala Harris interview



In a week punctuated by disastrous interviews, Kamala Harris' interview with Bill Whitaker of CBS News' "60 Minutes" was perhaps her greatest train wreck.

It turns out that the full and unedited version of the vice president's conversation with Bill Whitaker was actually far worse than what the sympathetic network ultimately decided to air Monday evening.

President Donald Trump's campaign has demanded that "60 Minutes" release the unedited transcript of the interview, suggesting that CBS News is covering up the Democratic presidential candidate's latest blunder.

Keen observers were quick to notice something amiss about the interview, namely that it was heavily edited. These edits appear to serve a singular objective: spare Harris, who is notorious for her word salads, yet another embarrassment and help her come across as coherent.

Critics noted a major difference between Harris' response shown in a preview of the interview and the one presented in the final.

'The word salad was deceptively edited to lessen Kamala's idiotic response.'

In one preview, Whitaker asked Harris whether America lacks influence over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his strategic decisions in the Middle East, prompting a meandering response from the vice president.

Whitaker then states, "It seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening," to which Harris replies:

Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.

Harris' word salad was replaced in the final so that it would appear as if she responded by saying:

We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.

The Orwellian revision is also reflected in the official transcript of the interview on CBS News' page.

Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for the Trump campaign, said in a statement Tuesday, "On Sunday, 60 Minutes teased Kamala's highly-anticipated sit-down interview with one of her worst word salads to date, which received significant criticism on social media. During the full interview on Monday evening, the word salad was deceptively edited to lessen Kamala's idiotic response."

'It is the very definition of FAKE NEWS!'

"Why did 60 Minutes choose not to air Kamala's full word salad, and what else did they choose not to air?" asked Leavitt. "The American people deserve the full, unedited transcript from Kamala's sit-down review. We call upon 60 Minutes and CBS to release it. What do they and Kamala, have to hide?"

CBS News did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

Absent a meaningful response from the liberal news network, President Donald Trump wrote Wednesday morning, "I've never seen this before, but the producers of 60 Minutes sliced and diced ('cut and pasted') Lyin' Kamala's answers to questions, which were virtually incoherent, over and over again, some by as many as four times in a single sentence or thought, all in an effort, possibly illegal as part of the 'News Division,' which must be licensed, to make her look 'more Presidential,' or a least, better. It may also be a major Campaign Finance Violation."

Trump has previously suggested that propaganda networks should have the licenses for their individual broadcast stations revoked by the Federal Communications Commission.

"This is a stain on the reputation of 60 Minutes that is not recoverable," continued Trump. "It will always remain with this once storied brand. I have never heard of such a thing being done in 'News.' It is the very definition of FAKE NEWS! The public is owed a MAJOR AND IMMEDIATE APOLOGY! This is an open and shut case, and must be investigated, starting today!"

Senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller noted, "As uniquely disastrous as Kamala's 60 minutes flaming train wreck of an interview is, remember that this is the *most* favorable edit the CBS partisans could make for her."

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, "Everyone has seen the clipped version of Kamala Harris' on 60 minutes and it's a catastrophe. Imagine how bad the actual interview was before they edited and cut the hell out of as only today's media would!!! We saw the best of the best and it was a disaster!"

CBS News failed to edit out Harris' claim that she owns the same kind of firearm she has tried to ban as well as Harris' defense of her abysmal record on the border. The final interview also includes Harris' desperate on-camera attempt to talk around the question of whether democracy was best served by her making a mockery of it.

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Kamala Harris embarrasses the US AGAIN with yet another word salad



Vice President Kamala Harris is not known for her silver tongue.

In an interview with the Associated Press, she tries to explain what she thinks about Southeast Asia, but instead creates her latest word salad that has all Americans cringing with severe second-hand embarrassment.

“When I think about Southeast Asia and this region and the Indo-Pacific, first of all, Southeast Asia, you’re looking at a population of over 600 million people. At least two-thirds of which are under the age of 35. Think about what that means,” Harris tells her interviewer. “Especially when you look at so many of these countries that have thriving economies,” she adds.

“What does that mean?” Pat Gray jokes. “It means they’ve got a young population,” Gray says, answering himself.

But there’s more.

Harris had not had enough of her own word-salading yet, telling the interviewer, “I feel very strongly about the importance of the general matter of engaging in U.S. policy as it relates to foreign affairs. In a way that we pay attention, of course, to immediate concerns and threats if they exist. But that we also pay attention to 10, 20, 30 years down the line and what we are developing now that will be to the benefit of our country.”

“She talks so much and says nothing,” Gray laughs, incredulous.

“We’d be better off as a nation with Miss Teen South Carolina as our vice president,” Keith Malinak adds.

Harris then goes on to tell the interviewer that Joe Biden has been “an extraordinary leader who has accomplished things that previous presidents hoped and dreamed and promised they would do and did not.”

“A substantial amount of time we spend together is in the Oval Office, where I see how his ability to understand issues and weave through complex issues in a way that no one else can, to make smart and important decisions on the behalf of the American people have played out,” she added.

Harris also claims that she is ready for the presidency if she were required to step up and into the role.

“Every vice president understands that when they take the oath, that they must be very clear about the responsibility they may have to take over the job of being president. I am no different,” she says.


Kamala Harris declares US must 'reduce population' to combat climate change in yet another gaffe



Vice President Kamala Harris made yet another gaffe during a speech about green energy on Friday. In Kamala's latest slip-up, she accidentally said the United States needs to "reduce population" in order to combat climate change.

Harris gave a speech about "building a clean energy economy" at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Harris touted President Joe Biden's "ambitious goal" of reducing America's greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and having the U.S. economy reach net zero emissions by no later than 2050 — with or without approval from Congress.

She argued that the "climate crisis" is "one of the most urgent matters of our time," adding that we "must act" because "it is clear that the clock is not only ticking, it is banging."

Harris told the audience, "When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water."

— (@)

The words "reduce population" was a trending topic on Twitter on Saturday morning.

Many immediately interpreted the faux pas as a Freudian slip revealing a conspiracy theory that the government plans to carry out population control to fight climate change.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) asked, "Are you the population she wants to reduce?"

The White House website rushed to clarify the vice president's statement, noting that Harris meant to say "pollution" instead of "population."

Friday's verbal gaffe came just days after Harris was mocked for attempting to explain artificial intelligence.

"I think the first part of this issue that should be articulated is AI is kind of a fancy thing. First of all, it's two letters. It means artificial intelligence, but ultimately what it is, is it's about machine learning," Harris said on Wednesday during a roundtable discussion at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C.

On Tuesday, Harris made yet another head-scratching comment.

Kamala said, "This issue of transportation is fundamentally about just making sure that people have the ability to get where they need to go! It's that basic."

Earlier this month, Harris was ridiculed for her word salad explanation about what culture is.

Last month, Harris notched the worst net approval rating for a vice president in NBC News polling history.

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Kamala Harris' bizarre attempt to redefine 'culture' elicits mockery



Kamala Harris, whose net approval rating was recently found to be the worst for a vice president in NBC News polling history, has elicited a new wave of criticism and mockery with her latest so-called "word salad."

The vice president joined Sunny Hostin, co-host of ABC's "The View," and pro-abortion activist Monica Simpson on Friday to discuss race-specific "reproductive health" at the 2023 Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans.

After touting the forum as the "epicenter of black culture," Simpson asked Harris how important she reckoned culture to be.

Harris appeared keen to first define the term, stating, "Well, I think culture is — it is a reflection of our moment in our time, right? And — and present culture is the way we express how we’re feeling about the moment."

"And — and we should always find times to express how we feel about the moment that is a reflection of joy, because every — you know, it comes in the morning," continued Harris. "We have to find ways to also express the way we feel about the moment in terms of just having language and a connection to how people are experiencing life. And I think about it in that way, too."

Merriam-Webster defines "culture" thusly: "The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group"; or "the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations."

Harris appeared to have confused the hosts and her audience with her unique definition. Nevertheless, she persisted.

"And we also — I think, is very important that — that leaders — anyone who considers themselves a leader — really understands how anything they say would affect a real human being, as opposed to — you know, otherwise be a poet and write poetry," she added. "But if you want to understand — I don’t mean to dismiss poetry at all. But if you want to understand any concept, you have to ask questions like, 'How would this affect a child?' to have a real understanding of what it is that you’ve proposed."

Harris attempted to elaborate further, but Hostin noted, "We're really almost at the end of our program."

— (@)

The official Twitter account for the Virginia GOP reacted to Harris' answer, writing, "Kamala Harris is that kid in your freshman English class who forgot about the assignment until the night before it was due and is desperate to meet the word count."

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) suggested Harris' response called to mind a scene from "Billy Madison," wherein the principal disparages the titular character for a wrong answer.

— (@)

Actor James Woods wrote, "Artificial Intelligence Czar explains 'culture,'" alluding to how the vice president was recently tasked with tackling what some experts regard as the greatest existential threat facing the species.

YouTuber Ranting Monkey tweeted, "Kamala will go down in history as the most quotable woman to even be a woman who makes quotes about quotes a woman might quote."

Other commenters expressed concern that the orator presently occupying Number One Observatory Circle is next in line for the presidency should anything befall 80-year-old President Joe Biden — a concern presidential candidate Nikki Haley recently expressed, telling "Fox & Friends" last month, "Kamala Harris that's going to end up being president of the United States if Joe Biden wins this election."

Harris' remarks about culture are hardly the first public comments she has given in recent memory that have inspired doubts and prompted ridicule.

In one of numerous instances, Harris raised eyebrows during a pro-abortion rally at Howard University in Washington, D.C., when she said, "I think it's very important ... for us, at every moment in time and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present."

— (@)

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Kamala Harris mocked for rambling 'word salad' answer to why Democrats didn't codify Roe v. Wade: 'What is she saying?'



Vice President Kamala Harris was stumped by a question about Roe v. Wade, and proceeded to give a rambling answer.

During a CBS News interview, correspondent Robert Costa asked Harris, "When you look back, did Democrats fail – past Democratic presidents, congressional leaders – to not codify Roe v. Wade over the past five decades?"

Harris immediately ceased having eye contact with Costa, looked away, then gave a meandering response.

"I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled. Certain issues are just settled," Harris rambled.

Costa quickly rebutted, "Clearly were not."

Harris replied, "No, that's right. And that's why I do believe that we are living, sadly, in real unsettled times."

\u201cEXCLUSIVE: Vice President Harris sits down with CBS News' @costareports to discuss the Supreme Court ruling of Roe v. Wade, the economy and gun violence ahead of the midterm elections.\n\nTune in tonight for the full interview on @CBSEveningNews and on Sunday\u2019s @FaceTheNation.\u201d
— CBS News (@CBS News) 1657314383

Vice President Harris was lampooned for her blathering response in numerous Twitter reactions.

Digital strategist Logan Hall: "Mastered the art of talking while saying nothing."

Progressive YouTuber Emma Vigeland: "This is incoherent. Is everything ok…?"

Former digital media adviser to Hillary Clinton Peter Daou: "WHAT IS SHE SAYING?"

Radio host Clay Travis: "How is it possible that Kamala Harris is this bad at public speaking?"

Writer Ryan Songalia: "Captions need a bouncing ball to follow along with the words."

"The Simpsons" writer Broti Gupta: "Kamala Harris talks like she has a translator earpiece on and it has water damage."

Republican consultant Erin Perrine: "Biden-Harris: The Ron Burgundy—Word Salad Chef Administration."

Radio host Erick Erickson: "Holy cow what a bad answer. This is going to cause a Dem revolt. The GOP has been after this for decades. But the Dems thought it settled so did nothing?!"

Editor Curtis Houck: "What is with this administration and an aversion to basic speaking skills and grasp of the English language?"

Kamala was also mocked this week for being "seriously" repetitive while giving a speech at the site of the 4th of July parade shooting in Highland Park, Illinois.

"And — and we’ll deal with what we need to deal with in terms of also, as we move forward, all agreeing that we’ve got to be smarter as a country in terms of who has access to what and, in particular, assault weapons," Harris told the crowd.

"And we got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are — because you have been forced to have to take it seriously," Vice President Harris blithered.

\u201cVice President Kamala Harris just spoke at the scene of the Highland Park mass shooting. \n\n\u201cWe have to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to take this seriously,\u201d she said.\u201d
— Jake Sheridan (@Jake Sheridan) 1657067543

On Friday, Harris met with state legislative leaders from Indiana, Florida, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Montana who are seeking to expand abortion in their states.

Harris was repetitive once again.

The vice president uttered, "Well,thisreallydoeshighlight,um,theimportanceofelectionsandwhowillbeelectedintermsofwhogetselected."

\u201cKAMALA HARRIS: "Well this really does highlight um the importance of elections and who will be elected in terms of who gets elected"\u201d
— RNC Research (@RNC Research) 1657313971

Also during the meeting, she said, "We cannot wait for Congress to act. Congress must act but also we cannot wait for Congress to act."

\u201cKAMALA HARRIS: "We cannot wait for Congress to act. Congress must act but also we cannot wait for Congress to act."\u201d
— RNC Research (@RNC Research) 1657340246

However, it wasn't only the vice president who had a difficult time talking this week. President Joe Biden also suffered yet another round of verbal gaffes this week.

While speaking about a new executive order on abortion, Biden read instructions to "repeat the line" out loud from the teleprompter instead of repeating the line.

The president also read the words "end of quote" aloud instead of acknowledging that it was an end of a quote.

The White House assistant press secretary and the White House official transcript attempted to cover for President Biden by claiming that he said, "let me repeat the line," despite video evidence that he actually said, "repeat the line."

\u201cIn case you missed Biden's incredibly incoherent speech just now, here's a quick 21 second recap.\u201d
— Kyle Martinsen (@Kyle Martinsen) 1657299694

Biden Can Barely Utter A Coherent Sentence But He’s Still More Eloquent Than Kamala Harris

At this point, I think it's safe to say that President Joe Biden, who has admitted he's a 'gaffe machine,' is more eloquent than Harris.