Never let it be said that Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) doesn’t know how to get to the point – or to hold the legacy media to account when they don’t. Sunday, on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Sen. Cotton called out the legacy media on the fact that, since her no-votes-held coronation as the Democratic nominee for president, Kamala Harris has yet to answer any direct, unscripted questions. There’s a good reason for that, he said – she can’t.
Sen. Tom Cotton said on Sunday that Americans won’t want Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the nation after they learn more about her, urging more press scrutiny of the presumptive Democratic nominee who vaulted to the top of the ticket in recent weeks.
“When the American people get a better look at her and her radical positions, I think you’re gonna see that they don’t want her to continue the Biden-Harris legacy,” Cotton said on “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
The Arkansas Republican criticized Harris for being the presumptive nominee for two weeks without providing any opportunity for unscripted moments or questions from the press. He said when she does encounter the media, she’ll have to answer for her positions on issues like energy and gun policy.
TOM COTTON: *tells blatant lies about Kamala Harris’s policy positions*
CBS HOST: You’ve just done a decent job there of explaining the potential policy differences between the former president and the VP pic.twitter.com/zRcOvoD0Ic
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 4, 2024
As Cotton notes, the important Harris identity that will matter to the American people is that “she’s a radical, San Francisco liberal”:
CBS: Are you personally ok with him questioning whether she’s Black?
TOM COTTON: *lies*
CBS: Let’s move on to some other things pic.twitter.com/kkderBIP53
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 4, 2024
He continued, turning his attention to the media’s failure to “hold Harris to the same standard” as previous nominees (in the CBS News piece linked above):
“Kamala Harris has only been the nominee for two weeks and hasn’t answered a single question,” he said, adding that it’s “incumbent upon the media” to hold Harris to the same standard as nominees who win the nomination through the traditional primary process.
“Donald Trump in ’16, Barack Obama in ’08 — they all had to go through more than a year of testing at town halls and VFWs and debates because they earned the nomination,” Cotton told moderator Ed O’Keefe. “Kamala Harris had it given to her.”
Just to belabor the obvious for a moment: This Harris honeymoon with the legacy media can’t last forever. There will be, after all, some kind of presidential debate, and we all know how well Kamala Harris does in debates – or in any situation where she has to speak without a script or a teleprompter.
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The legacy media will try to obfuscate this, but we all remember when Donald Trump was president, he would walk to the press line and answer questions, impromptu, off the cuff, sometimes during an event, sometimes just on his way to Marine One to fly somewhere; Trump seemed drawn to the press lines and while he notoriously didn’t take any guff from the media people and while there was no love lost on either side, he answered questions, directly, succinctly and to the point.
Kamala Harris has never done this. She never will, if her handlers have anything to say about it. She’s simply not capable of answering a direct question without either blanking out or presenting yet another incomprehensible word salad. And, in the end, the American people are going to see that.
This doesn’t mean the election will be a Trump-Vance walkover; remember, roughly a third of the population will vote Democrat if the Democratic candidate is comatose; just look at the 2020 election results. But having Kamala face Donald Trump in a debate may well be a tipping point. Kamala Harris, after all, is just no good in the debate format – and her far-left record doesn’t help. We’ve seen this already.
Remember, as I’ve said before: They kept Joe Biden away from these situations because he is senile. They are keeping Kamala Harris away from them because she is incompetent. But they can’t keep doing it forever.
