While I wasn’t thrilled with every answer she gave, I didn’t really see any big “gotcha” moments there. She answered everything coherently and didn’t seem particularly evasive or anything.
Despite all this, it didn’t stop CNN’s rightoid talking heads from going through the usual laundry list of criticisms: “why isn’t she giving more interviews”, “she’s a far left ultra-liberal Californian”, “her policies are nonsense and will tax Americans into oblivion”/“she didn’t talk substantively about policies”, “what about Afghanistan?”, “what about the border?”, “she flip-flopped and we can’t trust anything she says!”, and so on. It’s always them moving the goal posts.
When it came to the Trump questioning her racial identity question, she condensed, “really, Dana, you have limited time with me, you have a highly visible and golden opportunity to really put me through the ringer with tough questions, and this is what you choose to ask me?” into the perfect response. She both brushed the question aside with ease, and also signalled to Trump that she wasn’t the slightest bit rattled by that nonsense.
The media asking Harris what she thinks of Trump’s personal attacks versus asking Trump why he’s such a racist fuckwit really shows how fucked up the fourth estate is in this day and age.
