Kamala Harris spent over a month cloistered away during her campaign for leader of the free world before finally sitting for a controlled, prerecorded interview Thursday with CNN’s Dana Bash. And at her side like a chaperone was vice presidential candidate Tim Walz.
Bash said at the outset that viewers would see the interview “in its entirety.”
We did learn some new things in the brief, 18-minute interview that was punctuated by several commercial breaks and slick cut-aways showing the duo on the campaign trail in Georgia.
We now know Kamala Harris makes her own bacon on Sunday mornings. That is what she was doing when President Joe Biden called to tell her he was dropping out of the race. She grows her own hot peppers at home, too. And she was “deeply touched and humbled” by a photo taken at the Democratic Convention that showed her speaking at the big podium while her young grand niece looked on in the foreground.
“You didn’t explicitly talk about gender or race in your speech, but it obviously means a lot to a lot of people, and that viral picture really says it,” Bash gushed. “What does it mean to you?”
Given Harris’ elusiveness, and the short length of the interview, it was a waste of time to focus on such fluff. What if Harris decides not to do an interview for another month? Bash should not have squandered the moment.
In an exchange with Walz lasting almost one and
