Dominic Patten
Vice President Kamala Harris may be contemplating naming a Republican to her cabinet if she beats Donald Trump in the election, but told CNN today she has little time for her opponent’s race baiting
“Same old, tired playbook,” Harris told CNN’s Dana Bash in Georgia on Thursday of the ex-POTUS’ widely dismissed assertion earlier this month at a Black Journalist conference that the VP only recently claimed to be Black. “Next question, please,” Harris added in her first interview since becoming the Democrats standard bearer over a month ago.
Conducted at Savannah’s Kim Café around 10:30 am PT Tuesday, the full interview with the vice president and her VP nominee running mate Gov. Tim Walz will air on the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned outlet tonight at 6 pm PT/9 pm ET. As well as being Harris’ first interview since Joe Biden stepped aside in late July, this is the first time the Minnesota Governer and the Veep have sat down with the press together.
“Dana, I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” Harris also told Bash today. Responding to a question from Bash about whether or not her policy decisions have changed since she last ran for president back in 2019. Harris offered examples on hot voter topics like climate change, energy resources and border security
Teasing the sit-down out on CNN at the top of the 1 pm PT/4 pm ET hour, Bash said that there was a “TMI” component to the discussion she had with Harris about when President Biden called the VP to tell her he would be dropping his reelection bid. “She told me that it was maybe TMI, but that she wanted to tell me the story of how that happened,” Bash told CNN anchor Phil Mattingly today. “So, you have to wait, Phil for that TMI story.”
Mere minutes after dropping out of the race, Biden offered his full endorsement to his 2020 running mate. An endorsement that was the first shoe to drop in a rapidly secured race to snaring the Democratic nomination. Raising hundreds of millions of dollars and seemingly reenergizing the Dems’ base, Harris picked Walz for the ticket in early August and held a very successful convention in Chicago last week.
Rarely one to miss a counterprograming opportunity, Donald Trump is also on the stump today. In a race that sees the polls extremely close, the former POTUS and current GOP nominee is appearing at a town hall in La Crosse, WI where Trump is expected to speak on the economy, the top issue among voters polls show.
Harris and Walz have more rallies of their own scheduled for later today in what has been a two-day tour of the Peach State.