Democratic strategist James Carville, on a podcast Thursday, advised Vice President Kamala Harris to use prepared questions when speaking in public.
Harris has stuck to mostly prepared remarks, having done just one sit-down interview and participated in just one presidential debate since launching her campaign on July 21. On “Conversations with Bill Kristol,” Carville suggested that Harris mix “loaded” questions with unprepared ones, without disclosing that she had prepared some questions, to make herself look more impressive. (Related: Kamala Harris once thought a border wall was “un-American.” Now she supports it.)
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“She can speak about China and say that China is an adversary but not an enemy. You know, there's the standard foreign policy magazine Foreign Affairs. But she can do that and it has to be covered,” Carville said. “And she can make that news. She can also bring up new economic topics and she can talk about how tariffs have had a very checkered history in terms of what good things have done.”
“I mean, she can do 1,000 different things, and she can actually get five or six questions, two of which you can bait. You can't bait every question, because it's obvious that it's been baited,” he added. “But you can say, 'Ms. Kristol, you're in the back. Oh, I'm glad you asked that question. I hadn't thought about that before, etc. Well, she's pretty tactful. Bill Kristol asked her a question, and she hadn't thought about it.' And, of course, [she] I've been thinking about it for five hours.”
Both Carville and conservative “anti-Trump” Bill Kristol laughed at the Democratic strategist's comments. “It's shocking to even hear about any discussion of dishonesty in a campaign,” Kristol quipped.
In June, Carville called for media outlets to increase their biased coverage of Trump in order to prevent him from winning the next presidential election.
“I'm not against biased reporting. Really… I would be against it at almost any other time in American history, but not now,” he said. “Objectivity is nothing. The real objectivity in this country right now is either you have a Constitution or you don't.”
ABC News debate modes Lindsey Davis and David Muir were criticized Tuesday for consistently fact-checking Trump while allowing Harris to freely make false statements.
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