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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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

Hard to believe, but Kamala Harris actually agreed to an interview with Fox News.

FULL INTERVIEW: [27:00]

1st MINUTE: Baier, “Give me a number.” Harris, “Let’s just get to the point.” Baier, “Give me a number.” The POINT was the number, which she never provided. ::smh::

2d MINUTE: Baier, “Why did you end Trump’s stay in Mexico policy?” Harris, “We submitted a bill.” Baier, “Why did you …” Harris, “I’m speaking.” Harris: “Trump told his cronies to kill our bill.” The POINT was “Why did you end Trump’s stay in Mexico policy?”

I’m having trouble listening to this and there’s 20 more minutes! ARGH!! Listening to this woman is like nails on a chalkboard.

If I’d had a shot for every time she has said, “Let’s be clear” in ten minutes, I’d be falling off my chair.

“Over the last decade … everything is Trump’s fault” … uhhh, Democrats have held the White House for 12 of the past 16 years.

“He’s the one who diminishes and demeans” … she whines as she diminishes and demeans. ::smh::

“The president should be willing to take criticism” … she whines as she blames her failures as VP on him.

21 MINUTES: “When did you first notice that President Biden’s mental faculties appeared diminished?” No answer. “Joe Biden is not on the ballot.”

COMMENTS:

• Let me be clear, I was raised in a middle class family, I was a prosecutor, and it’s Donald Trump’s fault.
• Anyone else ready to be unburdened by what has been?
• I’m a Customs and Border Protection officer, the immigration system is not broken, the bureaucracy of politicians is broken.
• I am so happy her handlers had her do this interview. Great work Bret!
• This is her job interview. Remember that.
• I counted 147 times she said it was Trump’s fault.

[9:37] – Good after commentary with Maria Bartiromo.