Vice President Kamala Harris’ performance at CNN’s Wednesday town hall with Pennsylvania swing voters underwhelmed the network’s journalists and pundits — as she left the more than hourlong forum with verbose and evasive answers to queries posed by on-the-fence residents.
“What I’m hearing from people who I’ve been talking to … if her goal was to close the deal, they’re not sure she did that,” CNN anchor Dana Bash said immediately after the event outside Philadelphia.
“Having said that, any time that she can be in front of an audience and interacting with voters is a win as far as her campaign goes — and they are very happy about that.”
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Veteran Democratic operative David Axelrod, the chief strategist on Barack Obama’s successful presidential campaigns said, “The things that would concern me is when she doesn’t want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to Word Salad City.”
🇺🇸 DAVID AXELROD ON KAMALA’S TOWN HALL: SHE GOES TO ‘WORD SALAD CITY’
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David Axelrod criticized Kamala Harris for avoiding direct answers during her town hall.
Axelrod: “Kamala Harris has a habit of going to ‘word salad city’ when she doesn’t want to answer a question,”.
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“And she did that on a couple of answers,” Axelrod said on a CNN panel following the town hall.
“One was on Israel — Anderson [Cooper] asked a direct question, ‘Would you be stronger on Israel than Trump?’ And, there was a seven-minute answer, but none of that related to the question he was asking.”
Axelrod argued that Harris, 60, also “missed an opportunity” when asked about immigration.
“She would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration’s policies. And that’s a mistake,” he said. “Sometimes you have to concede things, and she didn’t concede much.”
“She just didn’t want to go there,” CNN host Abby Phillip said on the post-event panel, pointing out that the answers were light on policy.
The bleak reviews came after Cooper, who moderated the town hall, forcefully pushed Harris on policy matters — at times uncomfortably asking her the same question repeatedly when she failed to give a straight answer.
National Democrats have told The Post that they’re concerned about Harris’ standing less than two weeks ahead of Election Day on Nov. 5 — as former President Donald Trump leads in polling averages of all seven major battleground states.
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