{"id":117905,"date":"2024-10-24T18:02:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=117905"},"modified":"2024-10-24T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:02:48","slug":"kamala-harris-roasted-by-cnn-panel-after-pennsylvania-town-hall-word-salad-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=117905","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris roasted by CNN panel after Pennsylvania town hall: &#8216;Word Salad City&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 performance <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/23\/us-news\/2024-presidential-election-live-updates-10-23-24\/\">at CNN\u2019s Wednesday town hall with Pennsylvania swing voters<\/a> underwhelmed the network\u2019s journalists and pundits \u2014 as she left the more than hourlong forum with verbose and evasive answers to queries posed by on-the-fence residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m hearing from people who I\u2019ve been talking to \u2026 if her goal was to close the deal, they\u2019re not sure she did that,\u201d CNN anchor Dana Bash said immediately after the event outside Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving said that, any time that she can be in front of an audience and interacting with voters is a win as far as her campaign goes \u2014 and they are very happy about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 answers questions during a CNN town hall in Pennsylvania on Oct. 23, 2024. <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Veteran Democratic operative David Axelrod, the chief strategist on Barack Obama\u2019s successful presidential campaigns said, \u201cThe things that would concern me is when she doesn\u2019t want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to Word Salad City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAnd she did that on a couple of answers,\u201d Axelrod said on a CNN panel following the town hall.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cOne was on Israel \u2014 Anderson [Cooper] asked a direct question, \u2018Would you be stronger on Israel than Trump?\u2019 And, there was a seven-minute answer, but none of that related to the question he was asking.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Axelrod argued that Harris, 60, also \u201cmissed an opportunity\u201d when asked about immigration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration\u2019s policies. And that\u2019s a mistake,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes you have to concede things, and she didn\u2019t concede much.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe just didn\u2019t want to go there,\u201d CNN host Abby Phillip said on the post-event panel, pointing out that the answers were light on policy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>CNN moderator Anderson Cooper looks on as Harris answers a question during the town hall. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The bleak reviews came after Cooper, who moderated the town hall, forcefully pushed Harris on policy matters \u2014 at times uncomfortably asking her the same question repeatedly when she failed to give a straight answer.<\/p>\n<p>National Democrats have told The Post that they\u2019re concerned about Harris\u2019 standing less than two weeks ahead of Election Day on Nov. 5 \u2014 as former President Donald Trump leads in polling averages of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/elections\/president\/2024\/battleground-states\">all seven major battleground states.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Right thing\u2019 on border<\/h2>\n<p>In one of the most-discussed exchanges, Harris insisted that she and retiring President Biden had done \u201cthe right thing\u201d on US-Mexico border policy.<\/p>\n<p>Harris defended her service as Biden\u2019s point person on reducing illegal immigration, which instead <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/16\/us-news\/1-7-million-gotaways-have-sneaked-into-us-under-biden-data\/\">hit record highs<\/a> for the first three years of her role, as Cooper pressed her to admit that Biden\u2019s June order to restrict the release of asylum seekers who enter illegally the US came too late.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Harris during a visit to the US-Mexico border with US Border Patrol Tuscon Sector Chief John Modlin on Sept. 27, 2024. <span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The exchange began when a Republican Drexel University student, who said he was leaning toward supporting Harris, asked to describe the \u201cbenefits and subsidies\u201d she would offer to new immigrants \u2014 a query the veep entirely side-stepped before Cooper picked up the line of questioning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s immigration system is broken and it needs to be fixed and has been broken for a long time,\u201d Harris deflected, defaulting to familiar campaign talking points before blaming Trump for helping crush a bipartisan bill this year that conservatives said did too little to restrict the release of illegal immigrants who sought asylum after crossing the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou talk about the bill that Donald Trump quashed. That was in 2024,\u201d Cooper interjected, offering a fact-check of the timeframe. \u201c2022, 2023 there were record border crossings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour administration took a number of hundreds of executive actions that didn\u2019t stem the flow. Numbers kept going up,\u201d Cooper noted. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Findlay Toyota Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona on Oct. 13, 2024. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFinally, in 2024, just in June, three weeks before the last the first presidential debate with Joe Biden, you institute executive actions that had a dramatic impact, really shut down people crossing over. Why didn\u2019t your administration do that in 2022, 2023?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris at first deflected again by claiming that she and Biden were negotiating with Congress over an immigration reform bill they had proposed in January 2021 \u2014 even though that legislation saw no serious movement and was widely regarded as an un-passable messaging bill due to the fact that it called for a path to citizenship for nearly all illegal immigrants already in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, you\u2019re exactly right, Anderson, and as of today, we have cut the flow of immigration by over half,\u201d Harris said, citing more recently monthly figures which reflect a swift plunge in apprehensions after border officials just last December notched an all-time high in encounters with migrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if it was that easy with that executive action, why not do it in 2022, 2023?\u201d Cooper pressed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a CNN town hall in Aston, Pa., Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter aligncenter aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-newsletter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__title-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__unsubmitted-title-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\tWe&#8217;re here to keep you informed about Election 2024 every step of the way\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our special edition newsletter to stay updated on the election stories that matter\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\tThank you for signing up\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBecause we were working with Congress and hoping that actually, we could have a long-term fix to the problem, instead of the short-term fix,\u201d Harris claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou couldn\u2019t have done one and both at the same time?\u201d the journalist followed up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to understand that ultimately, this problem is going to be fixed through congressional action. Congress has the authority and the purse. I hate to use DC terms, but literally, they write the checks. Part of the issue is in order to really fix the problem at the border,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Harris defended her service as Biden\u2019s point person on reducing illegal immigration, which instead hit record highs for the first three years of her role. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe need more judges to deal with asylum claims. We need more personnel down there to deal with processing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cooper bluntly pressed again: \u201cDo you wish you had done those executive orders in 2022, 2023?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we did the right thing,\u201d Harris ultimately said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cAnd \u2014 but, the best thing that can happen for the American people is that we have bipartisan work happening, and I pledge to you that I will work across the aisle to fix this long-standing problem,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of immigration came up repeatedly in the forum \u2014 with Harris at one point mocking Trump\u2019s effort to build a US-Mexico border wall during his term of office and saying, \u201cHow much of that wall did he build? I think the last number I saw was about 2%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Trump\u2019s administration built new barriers across roughly 25% of the nearly 2,000-mile southern border, though much of the walling replaced existing barriers in heavily trafficked areas.<\/p>\n<p>Harris at one point in the more than hourlong dialogue gave hints of regret when pressed on her evolving positions when asked about her support for decriminalizing illegal border crossings while she was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never intended, nor do I will I ever allow, America to have a border that is not secure,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Fascist\u2019 Trump \u2018creating an enemies list\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Harris focused much of her appeal to swing voters on emphasizing that she is not Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/23\/us-news\/kamala-harris-reacts-to-former-trump-staffer-claiming-ex-prez-praised-hitler\/\">whom she said she considers a fascist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think Donald Trump is a fascist?\u201d Cooper asked Harris shortly after the town hall began, citing the recent criticism of Trump by his former White House chief of staff John Kelly and former chairman of the joint chief of staff Mark Milley.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Harris arrives at a campaign event near the US-Mexico border at Cochise College\u2019s Douglas Campus on Sept. 27, 2024. <span class=\"credit\">Rob Schumacher\/The Republic \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYes, I do. Yes, I do,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 13 days you will decide who is sitting in the Oval Office on Jan. 20,\u201d the vice president said later in the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can look at Donald Trump in the White House after Jan. 20 sitting in that Oval Office plotting his revenge. 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