CNN's Dana Bash exposed Vice President Kamala Harris' duplicity on the economy on Thursday night, echoing former President Donald Trump's advice to Harris to conduct “fair but tough interviews.”
“CNN's Dana Bash has a chance for greatness today,” Trump says Posts Speaking to Truth Social ahead of the interview, she said: “If she were to conduct a fair and tough interview with Comrade Kamala Harris, she would be exposed as totally unfit and unfit for the office of the presidency.”
That's exactly what Bash did on the economy: She carefully exposed Harris by getting her to acknowledge the Biden-Harris administration's economic record while at the same time shifting the blame onto Trump.
The contradiction was stark, as Harris was forced to tout the administration's policies to justify her candidacy, while at the same time undermining her own record and candidacy.
Bash began the interview by asking about the economic missteps of the Biden-Harris administration.
You're well aware of what many Americans are suffering right now: an affordability crisis. One of your campaign themes is “We're not going backwards,” but what would you say to voters who want to see the economy move forward, especially because groceries were cheap? [and] Housing was more affordable under President Donald Trump.
Harris responded by attacking Trump and praising the Biden-Harris administration's economic policies, before praising the Biden-Harris administration's economic policies.
Joe Biden and I took office in the middle of a pandemic. Over 10 million jobs were lost. We were literally all keeping track of the numbers, but hundreds of people a day were dying from COVID-19. The economy was collapsing.
A lot of this is down to Donald Trump's mismanagement of the crisis. When we started, our number one priority was to do what we could to save America, and we know today that inflation is below 3%. Many of our policies have led to the reality that America has recovered faster than any wealthy country in the world.
“So you're claiming Bidenomics is a success?” Bash asked further later in the interview.
“I would say it's a good job,” Harris responded. “There's still work to be done, but it's a good job.”
The Q&A session offered a glimpse into Harris' biggest weakness, the so-called “dilemma” of her campaign: Campaigning on cutting rising costs would undermine the policies of the Biden-Harris Administration, but she must tout the Administration's policies to justify her own record and her candidacy.
The poll appears to clear up the confusion: Only 26.9% of Americans believe According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, 63.4% of people said the nation is heading in the right direction, while 63.4% said it is heading in the wrong direction.
