This month Kamala Harris emerged from her vice-presidential hidey hole to speak to the media.
Her blitz included interviews on The View, CBS’s 60 Minutes, and Howard Stern, as well as the sex podcast, “Call Her Daddy.” (Yes, really.)
For Republicans tuning in, the vice president’s performances didn’t surprise. She bumbled. She pursed her lips. She avoided specifics, ducked questions, and clung to talking points harder than the Lycra in her pantsuits. In other words, it was the usual fare of Kamala pablum, plus or minus a hug from Oprah.
Yet, Democrats seem genuinely surprised by the lackluster performance. The New York Times lamented her “verbal acrobatics” and “verbal jujitsu.” CNN took note that the veep was sticking to “friendlier interviewers with targeted audiences.”
Have they not been paying attention these past two and a half months? Perhaps they’ve been too caught up in the puke-green vibes of Kamala’s brat summer.
The left’s collective shock seemed like a flashback to the first and only Biden-Trump debate of 2024. Wait, the president is incoherent? But he’s been so sharp!
Except now it is Harris who is incoherent.
And where she is most dangerously inept is on the subject of national security.
When asked by CBS’ Bill Whitaker why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn’t listening to the United States, Harris replied, “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.”
Huh?
When Whitaker asked her to name America’s “greatest adversary,” Harris blanked on China and blurted: “I think there’s an obvious one in mind, which is Iran.”
Howard Stern asked the veep about Ukraine. Her muddled answer: “I grew up in the neighborhood. Some would say you’re getting punked if you stand in favor of somebody who’s an adversary over your friends on principles that we all agree on.” Idiocy aside, Harris left out the part that her rough-and-tumble “neighborhood” was Berkeley and Quebec.
But Harris’ biggest wreck came on The View, of all outlets. She was asked, “Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?”
Her answer made the Hindenburg look like a sweet landing: “There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of … and I’ve been a part of … of … of … most decisions that have had impact.”
America’s humiliating defeat in Afghanistan didn’t come to her mind. The failure of deterrence in Ukraine escaped her attention. The Middle East aflame went unnoticed by the veep’s grey matter. Washed out “humanitarian aid” piers at Gaza, Chinese spy balloons, double-digit inflation and a federal non-response to Hurricane Helene — Kamala Harris wouldn’t have done a thing differently.
This month America met a dumber, younger Joe 2.0.
Her answers seemed to shock even the most loyal of Democrats. “This is something that I think [the Harris campaign] screwed up … I’m getting increasingly pissed off about it,” longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said on Thursday.
With just a little over three weeks to go, it would seem Madam Vice President’s multi-course meals of word salads, nothingburgers and pie-in-the sky fluff is giving the left heartburn.
Morgan Murphy is military thought leader, former press secretary to the Secretary of Defense and national security advisor in the U.S. Senate.
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