If there was one takeaway from Kamala Harris’s much-anticipated CNN interview Thursday night, it’s this: Harris is not a flashy candidate. But she is a lawyer and a serious person, and while her campaign has so far been a lot of fun, she’ll bring sobriety and pragmatism to the White House.
A Harris presidency may not be as exciting as Trumpian insults and reality TV antics. But Americans have a choice: Do we want politics as entertainment, or politicians who put their heads down and get stuff done?
Harris and her running mate Tim Walz sat down with CNN’s Dana Bash after weeks of avoiding press interviews (CNN has reportedly also requested a sit-down with Donald Trump and JD Vance, and has yet to see their invitation accepted).
When she was running in the 2020 Democratic primary, Harris was often criticized for her “word salad” answers, and was sometimes flat-out hostile to journalists; her interview with The New York Times reporter Astead Herndon, for example, is an uncomfortable listen, as she repeatedly refuses to answer fairly straightforward questions, suggests the problem is the interviewer’s lack of specificity, and, as Herndon put it, made him feel like he was on trial.
Some Harris supporters have even argued that she shouldn’t subject herself to........