Kamala Harris finally did her first post-coronation interview on CNN with Dana Bash on Thursday, with the help of her emotional support Governor, Tim Walz. It was taped —despite the "live" box at the bottom of the screen — so we don't know what, if anything, may have been edited out of it. 

But if what they showed was the best of it, it didn't serve them or Kamala Harris well. Harris offered both a festival of lies and a word salad, with Bash not really holding her feet to the fire on any of it. Indeed, she was even giving her leading questions at one point that might help her out. 

READ MORE: People Had Some Big Questions About Kamala's Train Wreck Interview

Now, in the aftermath, even CNN didn't think it was that great. 

Democratic operative David Axelrod said he didn't think that she "moved the ball that much forward."

AXELROD: I don't think she moved the ball that much forward.pic.twitter.com/duf8OcAncp

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 30, 2024

Even someone clearly trying to support her admitted it wasn't a "touchdown." 

*ANOTHER* CNN PANELIST: You may not like the way she answered [the questions]... maybe she didn't score a touchdown tonight.

This was a total failure for Kamala. pic.twitter.com/iZVGJNCRFk

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 30, 2024

Looks like she failed on her biggest task: unburdening herself from what has been...the dismal record that she and Joe Biden have laid down. She really can't get around it, even for CNN. 

CNN PANELIST: I don't think there's a policy separation that they've created with Biden.

When you've lost CNN... pic.twitter.com/2Xqjec3CjE

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 30, 2024

But when even Daniel Dale, CNN's fact-checker, is forced to admit that she wasn't exactly telling the truth, you know there might be a problem. He called her out on her flip-flopping on fracking and said she was clear on banning fracking, not on taking back her position, as she claimed. 

WATCH: CNN fact checks Kamala’s claim that she “made it clear on the debate stage in 2020” that she opposed banning fracking.

It’s almost comical how blatantly she tells lies. pic.twitter.com/hrTLA7eW7V

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 30, 2024

In other words, she was playing word games. He said she never made it clear that she personally had abandoned the anti-fracking position. And if her "values haven't changed," as she claimed, then how do we know truly what she will do when she gets in? 

Now, there was more there that Dale could have done, including pretending that Biden-Harris had brought inflation down from what it was when they came in, when it was lower, and they actually drove it up. But the fact that we even got what we got from Dale shows the problems that Harris was having. 

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