Days after suggesting that it wasn’t necessary for Kamala Harris to sit down for an interview and answer policy questions, MSNBC tasked their resident late-night AWFUL, Stephanie Ruhle, with doing precisely that. Sitting down with Harris and attempting to get substantive answers on policy. She got half the job done: the sitting down part.
The interview opens with a plea, from Ruhle to Harris, to give the voters what amounts to a policy elevator pitch. Harris responded with a word salad that ended with affordable housing.
Harris makes sure to immediately work “hopes”, “dreams”, and “aspirations” into her first word salad, in response to Ruhle’s first soft toss of a question. pic.twitter.com/TyGPrm89xi
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) September 25, 2024
Ruhle took another pass at the question, at which point Harris fired off a succession of talking points against Trump:
Second question, @SRuhle marvels: “Over the last four years, there have been tremendous economic winds and you’ve just laid out a big plan, but still polling shows that most likely voters still think Donald Trump is better to handle the economy. Why do you think that is?” pic.twitter.com/n9HcpUSVD2
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) September 25, 2024
Within a round of questions on taxes and tariffs where Harris largely avoided providing substantive answers, Ruhle asked an uncomfortable question regarding the Teamsters’ non-endorsement, which Harris also ducked:
Harris avoids answering the question about the Teamsters’ refusal to endorse. pic.twitter.com/D0ptyrQm2k
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) September 25, 2024
Ruhle asks Harris about price controls. Harris provides a clear answer, which is to double down:
Harris’s response to the price controls question seems very price control-adjacent pic.twitter.com/ZfJeNuHJ9w
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) September 25, 2024
On immigration, Ruhle revives “cats and dogs”. Harris offers to revive mass amnesties:
Immigration: Kamala offers to revive both the failed border bill and “comprehensive immigration reform” pic.twitter.com/QT6qzYq0HU
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) September 25, 2024
At long last, a tough question: McDonald’s.
MSNBC’s @SRuhle gets tough: “Your opponent almost everyday seems to be talking about this. So I just want to ask you yes or no. At any point in your life have you served two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun?” Giggle time. pic.twitter.com/iDfDMK6Yf2
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) September 25, 2024
Of course, there is an obligatory question on abortion, framed as an economic issue- the one issue guaranteed to elicit a response out of Harris: in this case, the ProPublica Abortion Hoax. Also, the trust question:
Ruhle makes sure to work an abortion question into this interview on economy. pic.twitter.com/0SHhiwe6Vt
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) September 25, 2024
Afterwards, there was the usual obnoxious round of self-congratulation and back-patting that is typical of MSNBC. Ruhle glowingly called Harris “a great interview.”
RUHLE: “She’s a great interview. I sat down with her for 25 minutes. You might not have liked all her answers, but she had one for every single question.” pic.twitter.com/WefuFOJbsj
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) September 25, 2024
As I mentioned at the outset, Ruhle accomplished half her mission, which was to ask questions. Some friendly, some with a slight degree of difficulty, but there was never a serious challenge of anything Harris said. Unfortunately for viewers expecting clarity, Harris didn’t offer a substantive answer beyond her talking point set-pieces. That much was evident from the very first question, wherein Harris worked “dreams”, “aspirations”, and “middle class” into her very first answer. It went downhill from there.
As anticipated, the sitting vice president was the proud recipient of a warm tongue bath from the Regimiest of all Regime Media outlets, which will no doubt he hailed as a groundbreaking interview by the usual crowd of Regime propagandists.
