-
Kamala Harris sat down for a live interview with Fox News. It was heated.
-
Host Bret Baier pressed Harris on a survey in which respondents said the U.S. was on the wrong track.
-
Harris praised her economic plans and said her presidency would not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s.
Kamala Harris faced off against Fox News host Bret Baier on Wednesday — and things quickly got tense.
Baier pressed Harris on the policies he was imposing on Joe Biden’s administration, hammering her on border security and pointing to a recent survey in which nearly 80% of respondents said the U.S. was on the wrong track.
If so many people think things are not going well, why would they vote for you, Baier asked Harris, since she had been Joe Biden’s vice president for almost four years.
Harris fired back, trying to focus on Donald Trump. She said he has spent the past decade trying to divide the country — and said a Harris presidency “will not be a continuation of the Joe Biden presidency.”
Harris said her ideas would strengthen the economy and in her stump speech touted what is common: a plan to strengthen small businesses, care for young parents and promote affordable housing.
“People are ready to take a new path forward, and they want a president who has a plan for the future and a plan that is healthy and will strengthen our country,” Harris said. “My plan for the economy does just that.”
Harris said Trump’s economic plan would “fuel inflation” and lead to a recession by the middle of next year. “Those are the facts,” she said, citing 16 Nobel laureates who she said supported her plans.
Baier, host of “Special Report with Bret Baier,” again cited the poll and pressed Harris to explain how she would be different from Biden. “What would be the most important changes under a Harris administration, and what would stay the same?” he asked.
“Well, I mean, I’m obviously not Joe Biden, and so that would be one change,” Harris shot back. “But I also think it’s important to say: with 20 days to go, I’m not Donald Trump.”
The poll was the Marquette Law School Poll, conducted earlier this month and released Wednesday. According to the report, 79% of respondents thought the country was on the wrong track.
Yet the same poll deadlocked the presidential race, with 48% of likely voters choosing Harris and 47% choosing Trump. It surveyed 886 registered voters across the country.
Meanwhile, Baier asked Harris about the U.S. border with Mexico: “How many illegal immigrants do you estimate your government has released into the country over the past 3.5 years?” he asked.
Harris did not answer the question directly. She said Democrats and Republicans had been working on a bill to address the issue, but Trump had told Republicans to vote against it, dooming the measure.
Read the original article on Business Insider
