Vice President Kamala Harris is under increasing scrutiny for what many are calling an evasive approach to interviews.
Critics are pointing out that, despite being asked direct questions on a range of pressing issues, Harris has repeatedly sidestepped specifics, opting instead for broad statements and generalizations.
The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan wrote an op-ed where she deemed Harris an “artless dodger.”
“She evades every question of substance, leaving voters a choice between Awful and Empty,” Noonan wrote.
She wrote in the article:
“… in terms of policy she is coming across as wholly without substance.
Joe Biden stepped aside, and Ms. Harris was elevated, two months ago. That is enough time at least to start making clear what she believes, wants and means to do. She hasn’t.
This week she couldn’t or wouldn’t answer a single question straight, and people could see it. She is an artless dodger.”
Noonan called Harris’ response in a recent interview on how she would get prices down “word-saying gibberish.”
“Only when speaking of her personal biography does she seem authoritative,” she wrote. “Otherwise she is airy, evasive, nonresponsive.”
Additionally, The New York Times’ Todd Purdum wrote in an op-ed on Sept. 19 about the “political cost” to Harris for “not answering direct questions.”
Purdum, a former White House correspondent, wrote in his piece, “Ms. Harris seems fearful of explaining the shifts in her views since her failed 2020 presidential campaign.”
Per a new national poll by NBC News, Harris has a 5-point lead over former President Donald Trump. The poll was conducted Sept. 13-17 among 1,000 registered voters nationally.
