Recently, both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris each did a sit down interview with a top journalist from an opposing new agency. Trump was interviewed by Bloomberg’s News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait while Harris was interviewed by Fox News’ Bret Baier.
If you have not seen them, I encourage you to find the time. If you can’t scrape up two hours, then figure out how much time you can spare, divide it by two and watch that many minutes of random segments of each interview. IMO, this exercise will tell you a great deal about who the candidates are.
Neither candidate answered many, if any, of the interviewers’ direct questions, which doesn’t bother me. Answering a gotcha question presents too great a risk of creating gotcha sound bites for the opposition to use in their ads. So, when hostile interviewers ask gotcha question, smart candidates use their time to present theirpositions. IMO, you should ignore the questions and focus on the temperament, character, and knowledge each candidate displayed.
Remember: This is not a personality contest. It’s a job interview. You are voting to hire one of them to do a critically important job for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX_IVnmoHUE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DaR2CVNNk
While the juxtaposition of these interviews is deeply informative, there is also some backstory that I think illuminates the two sides of this race.
- Trump was invited to give a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago. When he arrived, he was presented with a packed audience, two chairs, and the editor of a hostile news agency for an interview. He was there for 60 minutes.
- Harris was invited to be interviewed by Bret Baier in a closed studio, with the tape to be shown immediately afterwards on Fox News. She agreed to 30 minutes, then arrived ten minutes late. Because of Fox’s commitment to air the interview at a certain time, the interview had to be cut short. She was there for 26 minutes.
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