Democrats have watched the momentum in the Presidential race flip to Donald Trump.
They’re watching the former President closing strong in the homestretch.
And a veteran journalist had an inside scoop for Donald Trump that left Democrats feeling sick.
Kamala Harris’ big Fox News interview won’t help her
Vice President Kamala Harris had a highly anticipated interview on Fox News with Special Report anchor Bret Baier.
The basement strategy that her campaign was running where she avoided the media has stalled out.
Former President Donald Trump now leads in all seven swing states in the RealClearPolitics polling average – albeit, by rather slim margins.
The momentum in the race has shifted to him since the Presidential debate in September.
Kamala has to get her message out to close the sale with voters so her handlers had her break her media embargo.
But she struggled with facing real questions and pushback from Bair during the interview.
The interview was going so poorly for her that her handlers abruptly cut it off.
I’ve seen Kamala have some bad performances, but this Bret Baier interview may have been the single most detrimental media event by a candidate, EVER.
It got so bad, Kamala’s team were off screen demanding the interview be cut short because Kamala was that bad.
PANIC IN DC! pic.twitter.com/1J7L2g3cOl
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) October 16, 2024
Kamala needs to move the needle with her media appearances with early voting underway.
Her campaign is convinced that there’s a large pool of disaffected Republican voters who don’t like Trump and could be open to voting for her.
Going on Fox News was a play to reach some of these voters.
Kamala failed to help herself with Fox News interview
Veteran journalist Mark Halperin called Kamala’s performance on Fox News “weak” and predicted that it wouldn’t make a difference in the race during an appearance on Newsmax’s Wake Up America.
“I looked at a lot of news in the battleground states today, and it’s barely mentioned,” Halperin said. “So what I really think is it’s probably a non-event.”
Kamala’s Fox News interview was a trainwreck, but Democrats tried to spin it as a triumph after facing a hostile interviewer.
Halperin said that no matter how anyone thought she performed, it wouldn’t impact swing state voters.
“You know, we can all analyze it. You can listen to people say it was a triumph,” Halperin explained. “You can listen to people say it was a car crash. I think in the end it’s a nonevent because what matters is an impact on the voters and what they hear about it. And I don’t see much again in the seven states that matter.”
Halperin thought that Kamala ducking questions during the interview wouldn’t convince anyone who was on the fence about voting for her.
“I think her evasiveness, her failure to address the tough questions that were asked on issues like immigration, and her saying, ‘I’ll follow the law’ on several issues rather than saying what her actual position was,” Halperin stated. “I thought, if you’re a voter who thinks she’s vague, she’s not offering explanations and she’s just attacking Donald Trump. I think … that made it a weak interview.”
Kamala’s handlers sent her on a media blitz because voters need more than media hype and not being Trump to vote for her.
She’s failed to make the case for herself in any of her recent interviews.
Kamala Harris is running out of time to sell a vision of her Presidency and convince voters she wouldn’t be Joe Biden’s second term.
