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‘She’s Not A Stupid Person’: Mark Halperin Says Harris’ ‘Achilles’ Heel’ Is ‘Her Lack Of Decisiveness’

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October 9, 2024 at 10:10 am
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Journalist Mark Halperin said Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris’ indecisiveness remains her primary weakness.

Harris has faced criticism for how she answers questions, with many critics accusing her of delivering “word salads” that lack details during interviews. Halperin, on his 2WAY platform, argued Harris’ intelligence isn’t her issue, but her public appearances showcase a struggle with making decisive statements.

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“One thing about the vice president that, if you studied her career, including her time in California as a senator, as a presidential candidate in 2019, the thing that people put their finger on is her lack of decisiveness … That, to me, is her Achilles’ heel; that is the thing that bedevils her,” Halperin said. “Because public speaking — she’s not a stupid person — public speaking on tough questions, even if they’re not asked in a tough way, involves on-your-feet, making decisions about what to say. And you don’t want to annoy anybody or anger anybody or commit a political error.”

“And her lack of decisiveness in her thinking and in where she wants to end up, and then how she expresses it, to me — and I’ve said this before, before she was a candidate for president when she was just, quote-unquote, the vice president — this is her problem,” he continued. “And it’s a problem that elected Democrats in Congress and the governors who support her fervently, they know that’s her problem. They see it, they watch her speak in public and they’re gritting their teeth and holding their breath because most of them think, ‘Well, I could answer that question better than she can. I support her; I want her to win,’ but it’s her lack of decisiveness.”

Harris asserted during her Tuesday interview on “The View” that she would not have done anything differently than President Joe Biden when co-host Sunny Hostin asked her if she would have diverged from him “during the past four years.”

“There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of, and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact, the work we have done, for example, capping the cost of insulin at $35 a month for our seniors,” the vice president said.

Halperin said later in his live stream that he thought Harris “reacted to that obviously expected question as if she was woken up in the middle of the night and someone said, ‘What is the air temperature on Mars?’ Like trying to get her bearings and figure it out.”

“Okay, so if that’s the answer you want to give, maybe a little more decisive than halting. It’s all over red Twitter … But it’s also the subject of many emails and texts I’ve gotten from Democrats today saying that if she loses, that could symbolize the whole thing,” he added. “She’s had to walk this tightrope between supporting the Biden-Harris administration and distancing herself. She said she’s not Joe Biden — they’re different people, manifestly true — but that answer makes no sense to anybody I heard from, including her supporters.”

Trump and Harris are currently locked in a tight race across the top seven swing-states, according to the RealClearPolling averages. Halperin said earlier on Tuesday that the vice president is on a poor trajectory to secure these states based on the latest private polling he has observed.

The journalist also asserted that both Democrats and Trump affiliates he’s talked to are aligned in believing the former president is gaining traction in the battleground states.

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