What's Going on With CNN? Jake Tapper Rips Into Kamala Harris' Debate Performance

What's going on with CNN lately?

We saw CNN's Erin Burnett highlight Andrew Kaczynski's deep dive on some of the bad, far-left things that Kamala Harris said she was for in that 2019 ACLU questionnaire, including paying for gender transition surgeries for detained illegal aliens.

That's exactly what journalists should be doing when she's flip-flopping all over the place and you can't figure out what her current positions are, especially when it's critical to such an important election for the American people.

Now, in another surprising moment, Jake Tapper has also committed some journalism. He explained Harris was avoiding questions during the debate. She began by "punting" the first question about the economy, Tapper said.

CNN's Jake Tapper, in a shocking moment of journalism, SLAMS Kamala for dodging multiple debate questions:

"Vice President Harris began the debate by punting the first question on the economy..."

"On the border, another vulnerable issue for Harris, she also dodged..."

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When she was asked if Americans were better off, she went into a riff about how she was raised as a "middle-class kid" and she claimed she was the only one on the stage who had a plan that was about lifting up the middle class. So what was it? She wouldn't say. You mean like Joe Biden was always talking about lifting up the middle class while crushing them with the inflation and the border influx?

"It went on from there," Tapper scolded.

"Despite the economy being the number one issue facing the country," Tapper said, Harris "generally reverted to talking points about a few of her policy proposals. Even Harris allies today are saying that she needs to talk more about what she will do for Americans, if elected."

"On the border, she also dodged," he declared.

Moderator David Muir asked what she would do differently than Joe Biden about the border. She just pulled out a canned answer, saying she was the only one who prosecuted transnational criminals.

"Ok," Tapper said skeptically. "That wasn't the question."

Plus, prosecute, my eye. What she leaves out is that she and Joe Biden have made transnational criminals/gangs who are smuggling illegal aliens into this country rich. The smuggling gangs have raked in money like never before under Biden and Harris, hauling in billions.

Tapper also brought up her answer on the Israel-Hamas question. Her response was that she would continue to work "around the clock" for a ceasefire deal that would get the hostages out.

"Again, how?" Tapper asked.

Tapper was one of the moderators in the first debate where Joe Biden imploded. CNN's debate was fair, certainly more so compared to the biased mess of the ABC debate. But as we wrote, even ABC reporters said Harris didn't answer what she needed to, and as we reported, independent voters weren't satisfied.

So what's going on with this reporting from CNN? Some of them do seem like they have issues with Harris. Everyone should, but it's so rare to see mainstream media honestly reporting like this. Unfortunately, they usually just fall back into being the defense team for the Democrats.

As Ed Morrissey at our sister site Hot Air propounded, it's not just that she wouldn't answer the questions in the debate -- it's that she wouldn't answer questions at all.

How can you possibly elect anyone like that?