The One Moment in Kamala Harris' Interview With Stephanie Ruhle That Defines Her Entire Campaign

In case you were lucky enough to miss it, Kamala Harris finally sat down for another interview on Wednesday. The venue was MSNBC, and the interviewer was Stephanie Ruhle. Yeah, that would be the same Stephanie Ruhle who, days prior, proclaimed that Harris doesn't need to answer any tough questions.

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The incentive structure was screwed up from the start, and no one expected the MSNBC host to press Harris on much of anything. What was truly astonishing, though, is that she didn't have to. The vice president managed to blow the interview despite being lobbed softballs that amounted to asking if she is awesome or just really, really awesome.

How terrible is Kamala Harris at this? Stephanie Ruhle basically asked her on a scale of AMAZING to BRAT just how awesome was she, and Kamala Harris started babbling like a drunkard.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 26, 2024

Harris was in mid-season form, doing her best to mold her pre-written talking points around the questions she was being asked. Somehow, she still seemed completely unprepared, and there was one moment that encapsulated everything wrong with the Harris campaign.

Try to watch this and not get a headache. I have no idea what the heck this is supposed to mean.
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— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 26, 2024

HARRIS: And assistance to state and local governments around transit dollars, and looking holistically at the connection between that and housing, and looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal government can create for local and state governments to actually engage in planning in holistic manner that includes prioritizing affordable housing.

Yes, that's a word salad that would give most people a migraine. I have to listen to a clip several times to transcribe it so I was good and exposed to this one, and I still have no idea what she's saying. It's not that she's slurring and speaking gibberish like Joe Biden does. It's that Harris strings together a series of words without any care as to whether she's making a salient point. She wants people to perceive her as a talented orator, but everything that comes out of her mouth provides a sense of faux intellectualism that nearly everyone can see directly through.

One of Harris' favorite crutches is to start talking about how things connect to other things without ever addressing the root of the issue. She was asked to explain her "opportunity economy." Instead of providing hard details as to what exactly that is and how she's going to accomplish it, the vice president starts repeating the word "holistic" while talking about how transit dollars connect with housing.

Do they, though? Because when I look across America, I'm not seeing much of a connection between an investor building a house to rent out or sell and whether there's a bus stop nearby. More importantly, local and state governments don't build housing, and for good reason. So how exactly is offering them incentives (i.e. taxpayer money from the federal government) going to "prioritize" affordable housing? Nothing she's saying makes any sense. It's just words vomited up by someone who hasn't even bothered to think through even the most basic policy positions.

And that is, in a nutshell, the Harris campaign. There is no there, there. It is a manufactured facade run by a cabal of Democratic Party insiders who have no perception of what life in America is actually like. Harris' "opportunity economy" is nothing but a consultant-driven catchphrase. There's no plan to implement it because it doesn't mean anything. A theoretical Harris administration would just be a continuation of Biden's policies, and everyone with a brain knows it.