Kamala Harris’s long-awaited softball interview with CNN’s Dana Bassey didn’t do her campaign any favors, according to a new Rasmussen poll.
Even in friendly outlets like CNN, many saw the interview as a sham that failed to convey a clear policy stance or sense of where Kamala Harris wants to lead the country.
Her campaign managers are not helping her by hiding her from the public, diminishing her speaking and media advertising abilities.
Harris Momentum Stagnates, CNN Talk Doesn’t Help
The first voter poll since her long-awaited first TV interview shows newly elected Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s momentum faltering.
Former President Donald Trump now appears to have the upper hand in the tight race for 2024, according to a post from polling firm Rasmussen Reports.
An overnight poll of a slightly larger sample of likely voters showed Trump with the lead even after Harris’s CNN interview Thursday night, in which she offered no details about her plans.
According to Rasmussen’s overnight tally, Trump leads the national popular vote 49% to 45%.
Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen tweeted:
No no…!!
This shouldn’t have happened!
Our latest overnight data point (50% since the Kamala interview) shows Trump with the largest lead in 10 days. pic.twitter.com/pyR3HIMq1u
— Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports (@Mark_R_Mitchell) August 31, 2024
Even the liberal media Newsweek I screwed up the interview:
Bad Interviews Hurt Harris-Walz Campaign
When CNN’s Dana Bash asked Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in an interview Thursday why her policy positions have changed since President Joe Biden allowed her to run for president, she rambled on, saying, “The most important and meaningful aspect of my policy views and decisions is that my values have not changed.”
Bash seemed oddly embarrassed to even ask such a pertinent question of the man who aspires to be the most powerful person in the world. Harris, on the other hand, seemed confident that Bash would not press her on any issue, perhaps knowing that the main purpose of the interview was to protect her campaign from accusations that she had evaded the media’s scrutiny. So she did not explain what her “values” were, how they led her to support policies that were so at odds with the ones she had supported before she became the de facto Democratic nominee five weeks ago, and why Americans should trust her.
If Harris has already peaked, and she appears to have peaked now, her campaign is in serious trouble.
