Between now and Election Day there is something Republicans and Trump’s media surrogates have got to understand: When you go on CNN, MSNBC, and the like, it is not an interview and it is not a debate. Stop trying to interview and stop trying to debate.
There is no interview and there is no debate if the anchor will inevitably and invariably lie on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign. That predictable dynamic played out perfectly on CNN last week in a segment featuring anchor John Berman and Donald Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt.
Asked by a perky Berman to “explain” why voters supposedly see Kamala “as perhaps the candidate of change,” Leavitt offered a fine answer. She said Kamala can’t credibly be a “change” candidate because she’s currently in the White House and is “wholly responsible for the failures over the past four years.”
So far so good. Leavitt went on to say Kamala “was named the border czar,” thus making her responsible for the appalling migrant crisis we’ve all been forced to suffer through, and and added that former President Trump “secured the border [and] unleashed the might of our energy industry.”
That was Berman’s cue. “There’s more domestic energy production right now than there’s ever been in U.S. history,” he said with great pride. “And Kamala Harris was not the border czar, she was appointed to deal with the Northern Triangle.”
Leavitt offered a not-bad rebuttal, correctly noting that gas and energy prices are exponentially higher
