Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has a pattern when she is interviewed, and it was on display Thursday night during the Univision Television townhall meeting where she took questions from undecided Latino voters.
Univision will host a similar event next week featuring former President Donald Trump.
Harris never gave a straight answer; often she gave no answer at all. She talked, but danced around direct answers, and in the end said nothing of substance.
We have seen this before, but if you zero in on it, there is a pattern. It goes like this: Thank you for the question. Mention how your own life relates to this issue. Talk about problems related to the topic. Make a quick, vague policy statement. Throw in some attacks on Trump when possible.
Let’s look at how Harris handled questions from the Univision town hall.
A man from Tampa, Florida, said he saw in the news that the Biden-Harris administration did not do enough in response to Hurricane Helene. “What would you or your administration specifically do to help us in the Tampa Bay area, or central Florida, to help us with this hurricane?”
Harris thanked him for the question and told him there has been a lot of disinformation about what the administration has been doing.
Next, she related the question to her life experiences: “I have to stress that this is not a time for people to play politics. I started my career as a prosecutor, and when I worked doing
