Australian Broadcasting Corporation reporter Sarah Ferguson called out former Vice President Kamala Harris for dodging questions about former President Joe Biden’s declining health during an interview.
Harris has been on a media tour promoting her book, “107 Days,” where she has faced questions about Biden’s health and her defeat in the 2024 presidential election. Ferguson asked Harris if Biden’s denials about his “frailties” hampered her campaign.
“I ran against Donald Trump for president and Donald Trump ran on a platform that was in large part, I believe, misrepresenting his intentions to the American people,” Harris responded. “I do believe that there are a fair number of people that voted for Donald Trump who believed him when he told them that his first priority on day one is going to be to bring down prices, and he didn’t. And you combine that misrepresentation of intention with also what was at play in terms of massive amounts of misinformation and a truncated calendar in terms of the clock.”
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“I want to interrupt you because that is a world-class pivot, but it is not the question that I asked you, which is about Joe Biden’s failure to recognize his own frailties and what that did to you,” Ferguson said. “The question is about Joe Biden. Are you still reluctant to criticize the former president?”
After some back-and-forth, during which Harris claimed Biden “was not frail as president,” Ferguson pointed to Biden’s poor performance in a June 27, 2024, CNN debate with Trump, during which Biden froze at least twice, lost his train of thought, appeared stiff and made multiple verbal gaffes.
“But he had frailties. We all saw the debate,” Ferguson said, with Harris claiming, “I do believe that Joe Biden had the capacity to be president of the United States, and I’ve never doubted that he had the capacity to be president of the United States. If you want to talk about whether he had the ability to endure what a race for president of the United States would require in that political environment in 2024, as I’ve said in the book, I had concerns.”
“I talked about that in the book. And I also mentioned the context in which that debate occurred. And you’ll probably remember how I talked about that in terms of what his travel schedule had been, that — what he had been enduring in terms of the timing of that debate,” Harris said after Ferguson pressed her about Biden’s decline. “I talk about it extensively in the book. I’m not shying away from that. That’s why I wrote it in the book, because I do know it’s a question people had.”
The Wall Street Journal published several articles about Biden’s declining mental acuity prior to his July 21, 2024, announcement that he would not seek reelection. Despite multiple sources confirming the reports, these articles faced pushback from other media outlets and Democrats.
On Dec. 19, 2024, the Journal revealed that White House aides had “insulated” Biden, even from his Cabinet members, as his health and mental capacity continued to deteriorate.
In May, Biden announced he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that metastasized to the bone. Prostate cancer that has spread to the bone is usually considered Stage 4B cancer with a survival rate of 37% over five years from diagnosis, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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