Harris vows to be different than Biden in Fiery Fox interview

vIce President Kamala Harris sought to deflect criticism of the administration’s handling of the border crisis, its stance on transgender rights and its ties to President Joe Biden in a combative interview Wednesday on Fox News.

“I want to be clear that my presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency, and like every new president who takes office, I will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences and fresh and new ideas,” Harris said.

The Democratic presidential candidate’s first formal interview with the medium lasted nearly half an hour and capped a day in which Harris sought to broaden her appeal to conservative voters with an event in suburban Philadelphia attended by dozens of Republican officials supporting her campaign had supported. The interview between Harris and Fox political anchor Bret Baier was often choppy, with both frequently interrupting and talking over each other.

Baier opened the interview by pressing Harris on the issue of immigration, which voters have viewed as one of the defining issues of the election.

Harris argued that the administration has taken the issue of immigration seriously and that many of the problems it has faced arose before she and Biden took office, and criticized Trump for his role in blocking a bipartisan bill that would restrict resources to deal with the problem of crossing borders.

“We have had a broken immigration system before, going back beyond the Donald Trump administration. Let’s all be honest. I’m not proud to say this is a perfect immigration system,” she said.

The vice president said she and Biden offered legislation to solve the immigration system within hours of taking office.

“Our focus was on fixing a problem,” she said.

But Baier pressed Harris on the number of undocumented migrants who have entered the country in recent years and confronted Harris about a video clip in which a family member blamed the Biden-Harris administration for the death of a woman who was killed by someone was illegally murdered in the country.

When asked if she would apologize to this family, Harris replied that they were “tragic cases.”

“I am so sorry for your loss. I am truly sorry for your loss,” Harris added. “I feel terrible for what she and her family experienced.”

But she also insisted that Trump had hampered efforts to find a bipartisan solution to the problem, saying, “Let’s talk about what’s happening right now to a person who doesn’t want to participate in solutions.”

During the interview, Baier also played an ad from the Trump campaign attacking Harris for comments she made during the 2020 presidential campaign in which she said she would use taxpayer money to fund gender reassignment surgeries for prisoners.

Harris responded by pointing to a recent New York Times report that federal prisoners received gender-affirming care during the Trump administration.

“Honestly, I think this ad from the Trump campaign is a little like throwing stones when you live in a glass house,” Harris said. “I will follow the law, and it is a law that Donald Trump actually followed.”

While Harris received praise from her supporters who applauded her lively exchange with Baier, one moment during the exchange seemed destined to become fodder for future campaign advertising.

When the Fox News host defended Trump by saying the Republican hasn’t actively advocated for the treatment of transgender prisoners, Harris said candidates need to take responsibility “for what happened in your administration.”

The sentence could provide Trump with a suitable anecdote at a time when Harris’ campaign is pushing to distance itself from Biden. Harris spent a lot of time during the Fox interview arguing that she represented “a new generation of leaders” after receiving criticism for doing so in an interview The view last week that she couldn’t think of a decision that she would have approached differently than the current president.

Still, when it came to the question of what voters should stay away from, especially given that polls showed many dissatisfied with the direction of the country, Harris focused on her opponent: “The last decade of dealing with the rhetoric of Donald were charged.” Trump.”