Pete Wehner, a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, wrote on X that Kamala Harris “dominated” Fox News host Bret Baier during an interview on Wednesday.
“My take: Bret Baier has rarely looked as bad (or tendentious) as he did in his interview with Kamala Harris,” Wehner wrote on X. “On the flip side, this was one of her best interviews. She dominated Bret. All in all it was quite a bad day for MAGA world’s most important media outlet,” Wehner posted on X
Harris and Baier shared a combative 30-minute exchange in her first formal interview on the right-leaning network, in an outreach to conservative or independent voters in the closing weeks of the election. Baier grilled her on the Biden administration’s handling of immigration, the Middle East and the economy.
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You have to ask who these things are convincing to. Which cohort has their minds moved because of this interview (or that gaffe, or this policy, revelation whatever).
Harris hasn’t moved any where but down in polling since her rightwing shift and she’s just about out of time to change that. So it should be obvious that this approach isn’t working on any one.
When was this supposed “rightwing shift?”
Your dismissive tone suggests you don’t think the thing exists or happened. Which would mean you are either oblivious or intentionally ignorant to basic news cycles. But even the most cursory or superficial level of knowledge and understanding of the candidate and their campaign can be used to highlight her shift to the right.
It started during the convention, with the final night highlighting Republicans while refusing to platform a Gazan: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/dnc-democratic-national-convention-08-22-24/index.html
Intercept on her embracing of NeoCon’s: https://theintercept.com/2024/09/14/dick-cheney-kamala-harris-neocons/
LA times article on it: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-10-10/2024-election-kamala-harris-policy-shifts
However, we don’t need only rely on reported news, we also have data we can use to address questions like this. (Codeshare link for reproduction: https://codeshare.io/dejgKZ, data sources are Nate Silvers)
Regression analysis puts the shift manifesting in polling at about ~September 16th.
And its not unique to one swing state (you can run the analysis yourself):
So I don’t make the assumption that your comment is in good faith, but I also don’t want you to have any wiggle room here.
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My exception is that your rhetoric will go from “She didn’t shift to the right” to “It was a good thing that she shifted to the right”