By EMILY GOODIN, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT IN WASHINGTON D.C. PUBLISHED: 12:08 EDT, 8 October 2024 | UPDATED: 13:51 EDT, 8 October 2024
'There is not a thing that comes to mind,' Harris said.
Her comments were made to the hosts of ABC's The View when she appeared on the show Tuesday morning for a softball interview where she was fawned over. Whoopi Goldberg introduced her as 'the next president of the United States.'
The Democratic nominee was just as friendly, posing for pictures with the hosts during commercial breaks.
Harris justified her reason for keeping to Biden's record by noting: 'I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.'
She specifically pointed to the decreased cost of insulin and the infrastructure act, both of which are popular among voters.
However, polls show voters want someone different than Biden or Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Many Americans indicated they did not want the 2024 election to be a rematch of the 2020 contest.
Enthusiasm among Democratic voters went up considerably after Harris replaced Biden on the ticket. And she has campaigned as an agent of hope and change.
Republicans promptly pounced on Harris' remark.
'Kamala Harris is more of the same. She admits it herself,' J.D. Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee wrote on X.
And Don Jr., the son of the former president, was even more forceful.
'And just like that, Kamala's entire bull**** campaign about being a 'change agent' collapses. You can't call yourself a change agent when you not only agree with every single disaster Joe Biden is responsible for, but you brag about being involved in all those decisions!,' he wrote on X.
In the friendly interview, Harris stayed away from controversial topics, including her relationship with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
It was revealed on Monday that DeSantis did not take Harris' phone calls as Hurricane Milton approaches Florida's coasts.
He accused her of trying to score political points and noted she had never called him during any other hurricane that hit Florida during her time as vice president.
Harris didn't directly address whether she has reached out to DeSantis in the past.
'Well first of all, I have called and talked with - in the course of this crisis, this most recent crisis - Democrat and Republican governors. Called, taken the call, answered the call, had a conversation. So obviously this is not an issue about partisanship or politics for certain leaders, but maybe is for others,' she said on The View Tuesday.
'Floridians, tough folks, been through a lot,' she added. 'But this is going to be different than they've been before. And I know a lot of folks might think 'I've been through this, I grew up here, I've seen it all,' this one is going to be different.'
'And that's why I called the governor about what Florida has received in terms of impact,' she said. 'And I think that's a shame that hasn't happened.'
Co-host Ana Navarro, an anti-Trump Republican, then commented: 'He'll take your call when you're president.'
'Here's the thing you should know on that point,' Harris inserted. 'And when I'm president I will continue to call him to see what he needs for help.'
Joy Behar then commented that maybe DeSantis 'maybe' won't be in office anymore once Harris becomes president.
The Florida Republican was overwhelmingly reelected in 2022, but is term-limited, so can only serve through January 2027.
Harris also had tough words for Republican rival Donald Trump, saying he 'really lacks empathy on a very basic level.'
She criticized him for presenting misinformation during the response to Hurricane Helene. Trump falsely claimed the Biden administration only sent funds and aid to blue states and not red ones.
'The idea that somebody would be playing political games for the sake of himself, but this is so consistent about Donald Trump,' Harris said.
'He puts himself before the needs of others. I fear that he really lacks empathy on a very basic level, to care about the suffering of other people, and then understand the role of the leader is not to beat people down. It's to lift people up absolutely, especially in a time of crisis,' she added.
Harris is in the midst of a media blitz. After her time on The View she headed to Howard Stern's studio to record an interview.
She'll then head to Nevada for a Univision town hall. She appeared on a '60 Minutes' special on Monday night.
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October 08, 2024, 01:05 PM
Expert308
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Originally posted by radioman:
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Originally posted by wcb6092: According to Paxton, over 1,300 non-citizens were found registered to vote during an audit of four randomly selected counties.
The state has unearthed hundreds more people than previously known who were improperly registered to vote under Oregon’s motor voter law. The latest tally includes 302 people identified on Monday, according to an “after-action” report ordered by Gov. Tina Kotek. The latest numbers add to the 1,259 people who officials with the state’s Driver and Motor Vehicle Services office and Secretary of State had earlier revealed were registered in error. Kotek has called on the DMV to pause the process of automatically registering drivers to vote through the state’s motor-voter law. Monday’s release from the DMV’s office notes 123 new people were mistakenly added through previously identified clerical errors. But the state discovered a new error. Another 178 people from the U.S. territories of American Samoa and Swains Island have been wrongly classified as U.S. citizens. The Secretary of State’s office said they are still reviewing whether any of the individuals wrongly added have actually voted. “These records contained evidence of clerical errors regarding citizenship status but that does not necessarily mean they belong to noncitizens,” the report reads. “For example, we know that of the 10 individuals identified in an earlier review who had a voting history, at least five were in fact citizens.” In response to the news, both Kotek and Secretary of State Lavonne Griffin-Valade signaled they will act with new urgency to look into how far the problems in automatic voter registrations extend. “Any error that undermines our voting system must be taken incredibly seriously and addressed,” Kotek said in a statement.
"Motor voter" is a thing where they hound you to register to vote when you go to DMV for a license. Oregon will issue a DL to anybody who has the money to pay the fee, no proof of citizenship required, only Oregon residence. A lot of other states won't accept an Oregon DL as a valid form of ID. The RealID will probably fix that, if they ever get around to implementing it (I think it may actually be an option now, but they're still issuing the old DLs too).
Tina Kotek is as woke progressive as they come, right up there with Kamala. I'm surprised she would make this request. They must have decided that motor-voter was getting too many white males to register.
October 08, 2024, 01:11 PM
corsair
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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé: Bill Whitaker should henceforth be referred to as the assassin. Goodness gracious, that 60 Minutes interview was brutal.
That was a rough interview ...for her. Prior guests depending upon their politics, would get soft-ball questions and the benefit of zero pressure from the host. The 60 Minutes producers knew they had their work cut out to edit it as best they could before releasing it. This interview should be a front-page reveal for most news rags instead, it's just fodder for the editorials.
Prior guests depending upon their politics, would get soft-ball questions and the benefit of zero pressure from the host. The 60 Minutes producers knew they had their work cut out to edit it as best they could before releasing it. This interview should be a front-page reveal for most news rags instead, it's just fodder for the editorials.
However, I'm glad it was on 60 Minutes. That's not a conservative audience. Perhaps it was reaching some of these middle-of-the road "undecided" voters.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
October 08, 2024, 01:51 PM
Rey HRH
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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
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Originally posted by Rey HRH: I actually believe the mainstream media when they say the polls for Trump and Kamala are very close .
I don't, not even a tiny bit.
Please don't misquote me. By misquoting me, you're making it seem like I said something I actually didn't say. This is what I said:
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I actually believe the mainstream media when they say the polls for Trump and Kamala are very close and well within the margin for cheating.
The bolded part which you left out makes all the difference in the world in what I was saying.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
October 08, 2024, 01:58 PM
corsair
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Originally posted by chellim1:
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Prior guests depending upon their politics, would get soft-ball questions and the benefit of zero pressure from the host. The 60 Minutes producers knew they had their work cut out to edit it as best they could before releasing it. This interview should be a front-page reveal for most news rags instead, it's just fodder for the editorials.
However, I'm glad it was on 60 Minutes. That's not a conservative audience. Perhaps it was reaching some of these middle-of-the road "undecided" voters.
Full agreement. The audience that's watches 60 Minutes weekly, has been forced-fed and fully accepting of what's put in front of them for decades....my aging parents The fact that even the edited version (which I can understand for time and flow), is still cringe and difficult; those producers did what they could to polish that turd. PERHAPS, now that accommodating interviewers (not named Oprah or, The View) are starting to press her, and those never-Trump middle-America voters are seeing some light.
October 08, 2024, 02:10 PM
old rugged cross
Rey, sometimes what you write and what others read are not the same thing.
And as far as your comment about the margin of cheating.
Joe Biden contradicted Kamala Harris’s claims and threw her under the bus.
Biden held his briefing at the same time Harris appeared on ABC’s “The View.”
“The governor of Florida has been cooperative and gotten all that he needs. I talked to him yesterday. I said no, you’re doing a great job and we thank you for it,” Biden said after Kamala Harris claimed DeSantis was ignoring her phone calls.
Harris went after Ron DeSantis for “playing political games at this moment.”
Joe Biden contradicted Kamala Harris’s claims and threw her under the bus.
Biden held his briefing at the same time Harris appeared on ABC’s “The View.”
“The governor of Florida has been cooperative and gotten all that he needs. I talked to him yesterday. I said no, you’re doing a great job and we thank you for it,” Biden said after Kamala Harris claimed DeSantis was ignoring her phone calls.
Haha haha!
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
October 08, 2024, 06:21 PM
Gustofer
Realistically, the Vice President is mostly a ceremonial position. They have no Consitutional power to do anything more than breaking a Senate tie. Why would a Governor even entertain a call from a Vice President in this instance?
________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton.
October 08, 2024, 06:22 PM
P220 Smudge
I don't think Joe's motivations are to put the party first, he just might be willing to play the "if I go down, you're coming down with me" card.
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Originally posted by Gustofer: Realistically, the Vice President is mostly a ceremonial position. They have no Consitutional power to do anything more than breaking a Senate tie. Why would a Governor even entertain a call from a Vice President in this instance?
Well, that's if we're pretending that Biden has been anything other than ceremonial himself, I guess.
______________________________________________ Endeavoring to master the subtle art of the grapefruit spoon.
October 08, 2024, 06:27 PM
Gustofer
^^^^^^ You got me there.
________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton.
October 08, 2024, 07:10 PM
ArtieS
I personally think that Joe would be joyously happy to see The Donald defeat the Kackler. He would then have the ultimate vindication of history that the swamp was wrong to chuck him overboard.
Some men just want to watch the world burn. He'd be happy to just watch the Dem establishment burn.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
October 08, 2024, 07:12 PM
gearhounds
^^^ As I suggested earlier, the Biden’s will be outed. Joe is too feeble and unbalanced to trust to the same money laundering speaking circuit the Clinton’s and Obama’s enjoy. He no longer has desirability as a power broker that can sell influence. Jill knows this and isn’t happy. She knows her world is about to end when they are kicked out of the White House.
“Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown
October 08, 2024, 07:27 PM
oddball
Knee Pads, after the 60 Minutes clusterfuck, and The View, decides to do an interview with irrelevant, hypochondriac, former shock-jock Howard Stern Keep it coming Kackles, you're desperate as fuck.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
October 08, 2024, 07:44 PM
Gustofer
Howard Stern? What a vile human being. Almost as much as anyone who would base their vote on his opinion...on anything.
________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton.
October 08, 2024, 07:59 PM
vthoky
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Originally posted by gearhounds: She knows her world is about to end when they are kicked out of the White House.
What's she got to worry about? They've got piles of money, they spent plenty of OUR money to build fences around THEIR homes, and she and Joe will have protection (not at their own expense, ahem) for the rest of their time. "What, me worry?"
God bless America.
October 08, 2024, 08:45 PM
TigerDore
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Originally posted by Gustofer: Howard Stern? What a vile human being. Almost as much as anyone who would base their vote on his opinion...on anything.
The first time I ever heard Stern was while I was in NYC in the late 80s-early 90s. I think he was still a local radio personality then. He was interviewing an actress or a model, I cannot remember which. One of the first things I heard out of his mouth was him asking her if she had dingleberries. I thought, wow, 4th grade bathroom humor on the radio, pathetic. When I later discovered he had become a national phenomenon, I began to lose confidence in my fellow man.
The fact that even the edited version (which I can understand for time and flow), is still cringe and difficult; those producers did what they could to polish that turd. PERHAPS, now that accommodating interviewers (not named Oprah or, The View) are starting to press her, and those never-Trump middle-America voters are seeing some light.
