Kamala Harris thought that she had CNN in her back pocket.
But even her cheerleaders on the network can’t ignore everything.
And Kamala Harris got a rude awakening from CNN for this bad mistake.
CNN host proposes Kamala drinking game
Vice President Kamala Harris’ handlers know what her weaknesses are as a candidate.
She became a punchline as Vice President for verbal gaffes and rambling word salads.
Kamala’s handlers have done everything in their power to keep her out of unscripted speaking situations like interacting with the press.
But she’s still sticking to the script whenever she can.
During the Presidential debate, it became obvious that she was using rehearsed lines for certain answers.
Kamala spent 45 minutes with reporters for the National Black Journalists Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This was a situation where she dealt with friendly journalists who may have as well been wearing her campaign gear.
But CNN’s Dana Bash noticed that Kamala robotically repeated the same talking points over and over again during the event.
Bash joked with a panel on CNN’s Inside Politics that a drinking game could be created around the number of times that Kamala said “small business.”
CNN notices Kamala can only parrot talking points
“When you listen to Kamala Harris and what she will do, you can almost start a drinking game every time she says ‘small businesses,’” Bash said. “Let me give you an example.”
She played a video of Kamala saying “small businesses” multiple times in under 20 seconds.
Bash asked the panel for their thoughts.
“Well, she says that, and she also talks about being a middle-class kid,” Semafor reporter Dave Weigel said. That’s also at the front of her answers. If you look at the interviews they’ve been doing with local media, and they’ve opened up a bit more since the debate, the first question is often, ‘What are you going to do to lower prices?’”
Citing her alleged “middle class” background has become a staple talking point for Kamala when she’s speaking about the economy or inflation.
She was asked two things she would do to lower prices during her first solo interview as a Presidential candidate with a journalist from a local ABC affiliate in Philadelphia.
Kamala delivered a world salad about being middle class and how people were proud of their lawns.
Kamala details her plan to bring down prices (which are up 20.3% since she took office):
“I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who were very proud of their lawn. Ya know?” pic.twitter.com/XbRpRHaLKs
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 13, 2024
Weigel said that Kamala is sticking to talking points because she can’t answer how she’ll lower prices.
“If you look at the interviews they’ve been doing in local media, and they’ve opened up a bit more since the debate, the first question is often, ‘What are you going to do to lower prices?’ Which is a very hard question for an incumbent party to answer. And it has implications that are very Trumpian,” Weigel explained. “It is: Trump says he’s going to do mass deportation, that’ll decrease demand. Trump says he’ll explore more energy, that’ll decrease energy costs.”
Any answer she gives on what she’d do raises the question of why she hasn’t done so as part of the Biden-Harris regime over the last three and a half years.
That’s why Kamala Harris is trying to avoid the press and policy to run on the media-created image of her.
