{"id":7997,"date":"2024-10-17T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T07:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=7997"},"modified":"2024-10-17T15:21:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T07:21:31","slug":"former-harris-aide-says-baier-pulled-interview-questions-from-trump-vance-press-release-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=7997","title":{"rendered":"Former Harris aide says Baier pulled interview questions from \u2018Trump\/Vance press release\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"319\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20241017151933.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20241017151933.jpg 319w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20241017151933-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former top aide to Vice President Harris turned MSNBC host Symone Sanders knocked Fox News anchor Bret Baier over how the journalist handled a high-stakes interview on \u201cSpecial Report\u201d with the Democratic nominee that aired on the network Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn the tone, I have sat in the room for a number of interviews with VP Harris and they have been tough,\u201d Sanders Townsend said in a post on the social platform X. \u201cI\u2019ve never witnessed what I witnessed tonight though. The interviewer wasn\u2019t themselves \u2013 instead he was rude, misleading and pulled questions straight out of a proverbial Trump\/Vance press release.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the at-times contentious back-and-forth between the anchor and vice president, Baier pressed Harris on her policies on immigration, her knowledge of President Biden\u2019s mental acuity before he dropped out of the 2024 race and her positions on key foreign policy issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe best part is, VP\u2019s response was simply to match his energy, stick to her why of the interview and not take the bait,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cThis is what a President would do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Wednesday interview, Harris and Baier clashed for a long time over immigration, with the Fox News anchor starting the interview by asking the vice president the number of immigrants that had crossed the border during her time in her current role. Harris acknowledged immigration was \u201ca topic of discussion that people want to rightly have,\u201d but Baier cut in to point out that it was 6 million immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baier also pressed the vice president over the Biden administration\u2019s decision to stop a policy from the Trump era that made potential asylum seekers stay in Mexico to wait for the results of their case in U.S. immigration court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harris mentioned that the first proposed piece of legislation President Biden put forward after his inauguration was on immigration, but Baier also noted that the bill didn\u2019t come up for a vote while Democrats held the House and Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the at-times contentious back-and-forth between the anchor and vice president, Baier pressed Harris on her policies on immigration, her knowledge of President Biden\u2019s mental acuity before he dropped out of the 2024 race and her positions on key foreign policy issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe best part is, VP\u2019s response was simply to match his energy, stick to her why of the interview and not take the bait,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cThis is what a President would do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Wednesday interview, Harris and Baier clashed for a long time over immigration, with the Fox News anchor starting the interview by asking the vice president the number of immigrants that had crossed the border during her time in her current role. Harris acknowledged immigration was \u201ca topic of discussion that people want to rightly have,\u201d but Baier cut in to point out that it was 6 million immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baier also pressed the vice president over the Biden administration\u2019s decision to stop a policy from the Trump era that made potential asylum seekers stay in Mexico to wait for the results of their case in U.S. immigration court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harris mentioned that the first proposed piece of legislation President Biden put forward after his inauguration was on immigration, but Baier also noted that the bill didn\u2019t come up for a vote while Democrats held the House and Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanders\u2019s criticism was one of many from Harris\u2019s allies, some of whom raised issues with Baier\u2019s line of questioning \u2014 including the clips of statements from former President Trump and Harris Fox played during their conversation \u2014 and heaped praise on the vice president for her repeated and forceful condemnation of Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others praised Baier\u2019s performance, applauding his direct follow-ups on key issues like immigration and how she would differ from Biden if elected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harris herself at one point during the conversation referred to Baier as \u201ca serious journalist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The less than 30-minute conversation between Baier and Harris, which was aired in full live, was seen going in as a key moment for both the network and the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the first formal sit down interview Harris has granted to Fox, the top-watched cable channel that boasts an often controversial but highly-rated slate of conservative commentators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interview on Fox comes as Harris is pressuring former President Trump to meet her on a debate stage with less than three weeks until election day, a pitch the former president as repeatedly declined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump participated instead in a town hall event focused on women\u2019s issues and the economy that aired earlier on Wednesday with Fox, a network he regularly ridicules but appears on often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former top aide to Vice President Harris turned MSNBC host Symone Sanders knocked Fox News anchor Bret Baier over how the journalist handled a high-stakes interview on \u201cSpecial Report\u201d with the Democratic nominee that aired on the network Wednesday evening. \u201cOn the tone, I have sat in the room for a number of interviews with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2801,2534,1754],"class_list":["post-7997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-baier","tag-harris","tag-president"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - 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