Democratic strategist Julie Roginski and former Trump campaign strategic communications director Mark Lotter said Thursday that Vice President Kamala Harris likely gained little from Wednesday’s interview on Fox News. It was agreed.
Harris appeared on Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Bayer.” beginning In an official interview with the network, host Bret Baier pressed on the border crisis and her challenge as president to move the country “forward.” Both Roginski and Lotter argued that Harris likely failed to win over voters during interviews. (Related: Harris campaign retracts economic policies for black men within days of announcing them)
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“I don’t really know if she got anything out of it. I understand the purpose. She goes to the lion’s den and is interested but clearly hasn’t heard the information she wants from Fox. It was about showing people that you can talk to them,” Roginsky said. “If you’re watching Fox at this point, I don’t think you’re interested in anything other than wanting to go out and vote for Donald Trump.”
“I don’t think that helped her. She clearly showed that she could go head-to-head with him. He’s clearly a Trump surrogate, and she argued about him on Donald Trump’s behalf. “I understood that there were,” she added. “But I don’t know if there are any undecided voters out there who will look at that and say, ‘Okay, now I’m going to vote for Kamala Harris.'”
Harris currently trails in six of the seven battleground states, but holds a slim lead in Wisconsin. According to to the average of RealClearPolling.
“I agree with Julie,” Rotter said. “I don’t think she got much out of it, because if you were that undecided voter, when Brett asked questions about the economy and immigration, the answer was, ‘We could have done better, we should have done more.’ It wasn’t something that I should have left behind.” Wrong. ‘It’s all Trump’s fault,’ she said when asked, ‘So what would you do?’ “Well, it’s Trump’s fault, I’m not Biden.”
The interview was controversial, with CNN’s Van Jones declaring Thursday that Harris “did a great job” but that the incident was an “inkblot test.”
Newsmax political analyst Mark Halperin argued Thursday that interview coverage in battleground states is sparse and unlikely to influence the election.
“I saw a lot of news today about battleground states and very little mention of it. So what I really think is, it’s probably nothing. You know, we… Everybody can analyze it. You can hear people say it was a win,” Halperin said. “I can hear people saying it was a car accident. I don’t think anything will happen in the end because what matters is the impact on voters and what they hear about it. . And in seven key states, much is no longer visible.”
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