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Kamala Harris’ campaign is scrambling: Either her staff don’t know what they’re doing, or they’ve realized it’s Hail Mary time.
She’s agreed to an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, the first time she’s deigned to sit down with a reporter from a right-leaning outlet as the Democratic nominee — and after even CBS’s best efforts couldn’t save her from looking awful in a friendly-but-professional sitdown with Bill Whitaker.
(And she may still wind up looking worse if CBS does as it should, by releasing the full transcript.)
Even riskier, she’s reportedly in talks to guest on Joe Rogan’s mega-popular podcast, whose audience skews heavily male (and conservative) — and whose sitdowns typically run for hours.
Neither move would be notable for almost any other candidate: Donald Trump has been sitting down with opposing, even hostile, interviewers since he launched his campaign.
But Harris’ handlers have largely restricted her to rallies with teleprompters and crowds of supporters or sitdowns with friendly alt-media types who tee up easy questions with few follow-ups.
And no wonder: Every time she goes off-script or is pressed just a bit, she offers up complete gibberish, like her Monday ramble about “constellations” in response to Black Star Network host Roland Martin’s question on crime.
Not to mention her admission on “The View” that she wouldn’t have done anything differently from Joe Biden these last four years.